A show about getting your best ideas into the world and seeing what happens. We talk about code, ops, infrastructure, and the people that make it happen. Gerhard Lazu and friends explore all things DevOps, infra, and running apps in production. Whether you’re cloud native, Kubernetes curious, a pro SRE, or just operating a VPS… you’ll love coming along for the ride. Ship It honors the makers, the shippers, and the visionaries that see it through. Some people search for ShipIt or ShipItFM and can’t find the show, so now the strings ShipIt and ShipItFM are in our description too.
Treat ideas like cattle, not pets
In our ops & infra world, we learn to optimise for redundancy, for mean time to recovery and for graceful degradation. We instinctively recognise single points of failure, and try to mitigate the risks associated with them.
For some years now, Daniel Vassallo has been doing the same, but in the context of life & work. Daniel talks about the role of randomness, about learning from small wins & about optimising for a lifestyle that matches your true preferences,. Apparently, ideas too should be treated like cattle, not pets.
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
- Creator Spotlight: Daniel Vassallo’s Success on Gumroad
- Small Bets
- The Good Parts of AWS
- Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts
- 🎧 Mastering the Lifestyle-First Approach
- 🎬 Building a Portfolio of Small Bets with Daniel Vassallo - The Bootstrapped Founder #166
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Timestamps:
(00:00) - Welcome
(01:20) - Daniel Vassallo
(04:19) - Slack in the system
(12:04) - Daniel's existential crisis
(19:41) - Sponsor: Changelog++
(20:38) - When to start a project
(25:07) - AWS books to chopping boards
(33:55) - Working for AWS
(38:41) - Being honest with yourself
(48:11) - What you do is not who you are
(53:13) - How does Daniel Ship It
(57:23) - Can goals be harmful?
(1:03:06) - How to make 100k in a year
(1:03:55) - Wrap up
(1:08:26) - Outro