Talking Businessly

Jan 27 2025 52 ep. 54 mins 8
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We (John and Daniel) are co-founders of a small software development agency. This is a recording of our weekly "state of the company" call where we discuss the nitty gritty details of running our business day-to-day. Want to work with us? Reach out at thunk.dev

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52: Coaching clients to have more urgency

Jan 27 2025 57 mins  
We talk retro video games. Daniel is wiring up his whole home. John preps for his Laracon talk. We recap what we learned from an uncomfortable client moment. We finalize our OKRs. John was on Joe Tannenbaum's podcast talking about games. John talks about doing jiu jitsu against the Dutch.

51: John built the client management app 🤫

Jan 20 2025 42 mins  
John built the MVP client app! Daniel watched Survivor. We brainstorm what we want out of our 2025 OKRs.

50: Growing our product team

Jan 13 2025 50 mins  
We talk about how it will work to have another PM around, the paradox of project scoping, good interview questions, and the power of learning from retros. On a less businessly note, we also talk Survivor, Pecking Order, gas leaks, soothing YouTube videos, cable management, and trying to feed our notes into ChatGPT.

49: What does success look like in 2025?

Jan 06 2025 43 mins  
We do a little vision casting for what a great year would look like. We have some disagreements about sales, plan to remove ourselves as individual contributors from many clients, and to get better at scheduling / planning.

48: Holiday party

Dec 09 2024 67 mins  
Daniel is moving, and we have some business logistics to figure out. We want to hire a junior PM. We do a roundup of our OKR results. We also talk game of the year, John is about to release a digital game, and get into the weeds testing a board game.

47: Killing Harvest

Nov 18 2024 59 mins  
John saw Hamilton. Daniel is moving. We are finally building the client management app that we've long resisted. We talk through the requirements and speak ill of Harvest.

46: We want to buy your business (maybe)

Nov 11 2024 51 mins  
We watched good movies this weekend. We re-learn that good management is mostly about un-blocking people. John's journey into React led him back to Livewire and Alpine. John is speaking at PHP x NYC. And finally, we discuss the (probably terrible) idea of buying a small business / product.

45: The client onboarding checklist

Nov 04 2024 35 mins  
Daniel played Colossi. We make a checklist of all the things that have to happen when we bring on a new client. Thunk wants to buy a small business??

44: Clarifying roles for Silly Season v2

Oct 28 2024 67 mins  
John went jet skiing at the Statue of Liberty. We love Bluesky. Tech bros keep getting one-shot by psychedelics. Business is great right now. We clarify our roles, headed into silly season. Daniel dreams up where Verbs will go in the long run.

43: Getting personal about working styles

Oct 21 2024 60 mins  
John used to be a choir boy. We remember being terrible at college, and wish we could have a second try. We talk working styles, and where we could do better. John brings up some important feedback from recent retros about how we work. John is writing a game in React! Daniel still insists that John start playing Deadlock.