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Async

Joshua & Saadia

Joshua and Saadia helped pioneer asynchronous and distributed work. So it"s only natural that our podcast bucks synchronous conventions. On Async, we take turns to unfold the conversation, one episode at a time, as we chat about technology, app development, and remote work.A Pretty Good podcast.

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7:10

[Joshua] Freeform woes and pirate networks

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2025/02/26

Followup Social media outposts Side projectsD&DTopics Office hours podcastGroup chat networksFreeform woes

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8:02

[Saadia] Side Projects and Social Media

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2025/02/26

An approach to making time for side projects. Maybe we should be on X after all.

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19:18

[Joshua] Showing up and pushing through

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2025/02/24

Followup on items from the previous episode: Protecting your job from AIPushing the Fractional podcast forwardFinding your podcast audienceFinding your voice in writing (my favorite followup topic)Creating a manifesto for your life/work/thingsTopics Robotics tournamentBetween two password managersRe-energizing myself to start my app again

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18:08

[Saadia] Manifesto

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2025/02/14

Finding your audience, your voice, and your winter jacket.

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12:44

[Joshua] The perfect product team

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2025/02/13

Followup on a bunch of great topics: AI model collapseThe perfect product teamPitts in your stomachWriting for impactTopics: Social media and short form videoOthering and understandingFractional, keep it going? Grasping for words

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20:50

[Saadia] Indie Founder Zen Venn

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2025/02/06

Should we get rid of our Product Managers, or truly enable them by giving them even more trust and ownership? And more reflections on "I want to write, but I also want to be read!" How do you write for impact?

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18:27

[Joshua] Star Trek Wars, Dealing with Anxiety,...

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2025/02/04

Followup on: Trying out LLMs and getting mixed results for images. Beats, bears, Battlestar GalacticaIC vs ManagersDealing with anxiety and aholesTopic Writing for readers

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13:58

[Saadia] IC vs Management

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2025/02/03

What makes a great product manager?

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10:35

[Joshua] Day job, freelance, side project. Pick 2.

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2025/01/31

Followup AI is everywhere - but not evenly distributed. I'm trying a challenge.Career transitions - They're hard, but I have some ideas. Turning down work - I give answers of a sortTV shows we're watchingTopic Thoughts on moving between individual contributor and manager roles.

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6:38

[Saadia] Turning down work

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2025/01/31

How do you balance income verse stress?

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26:23

[Joshua] We're in the endgame now

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2025/01/30

Followup from the previous episode:AI design and dev tools - AI image generation is actually valuable. AI pessimism and DeepSeek - Censorship is overrated. Design systems - Designers and devs working together beats any system. Early morning rising - Never going to happen. Podcast network - The why behind it. Topics10x/day AI prompt challengeSuperwhisper vs writingNew podcast ideaThe endgame of my careerTips for starting a blog

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17:54

[Saadia] A dose of AI pessimism

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2025/01/30

I'm not all that excited about the future of AI tooling, and less excited about DeepSeek. I've been sick too, but now I'm feeling Pretty Good™.

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10:03

[Joshua] DeepSeek is the new Apple Silicon

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2025/01/27

In this episode Joshua followed up on the goals topic and AI design tools from the previous episode. New topics:R1 from DeepSeek is like M1 from Apple SiliconDesign systems for designers

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9:06

[Saadia] Compass Goals

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2025/01/24

What even is a goal, anyway?https://diggingforfire.blog/posts/compasses-over-maps/

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9:28

[Joshua] Chasing after goals

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2025/01/23

Followup from previous episode:Leaning into my personality so that AI can't take meGoal setting and why I reject goalsTopicsRunning on a bum kneeWhen should I upgrade my hardware?AI design tools in 2025

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14:55

[Saadia] Uncharted Territory

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2025/01/22

We still haven't found the killer app for AI.

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18:10

[Joshua] Focus on your strengths

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2025/01/22

A blast of an episode. Followup items:Trusting your experienceDon't be scared of GitWriting a book one blog post at a timeFTP and virusesVR gamingAuphonic and AI voice replicationDigital frugalism and mac appsNew topicsJoshuaWold.com writing tearShould I have goals?Testing AI tools for designersiCloud Mail for the winFocusing on your strengths

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15:17

[Saadia] Digital Frugalism

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2025/01/22

There's usually a way to make it free.

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15:11

[Joshua] Writing into the dark

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2025/01/16

In this episode I talked about:1. Writing a book - My process for writing into the dark, and how I've found ways to do and ignore my inner critic. 2. Testing Buttondown as an email service. 3. Why I'm now thinking a guide would be better than an everything app. 4. My struggles with Git when trying to build a website. 5. The open web and my thoughts on it, and why I ultimately think it matters. 6. The technical quality of something versus the value it provides regardle...

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17:42

[Saadia] Internal critic

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2025/01/16

So many topics this episode! Mostly, though, it's about blogging and the open web.

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