Episodes

have a section in my weekly reviews that I call goal and vision where I reflect on where I'm trying to take Lunch Pail Labs, but I’ve often felt that my descriptions are general. Ali Abdaal describes the ideal ordinary week, so I gave the exercise a try this morning and put some thoughts on how it applies to Lunch Pail Labs.

It's the weekly, week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs.

Atomic is everywhere. James Clear popularized atomic habits, Andrew Chen chats atomic networks in the Cold Start problem, and Ship 30 for 30 touts atomic essays. I did a quick google search to see what atomic thinking applies to products and didn’t find much, so this episode jams on my application of these atomic ideas to what could be atomic products. Read along with the accompanying atomic essay here.

Yesterday, I chatted about the water company Liquid Death and stages of product markets and how style/identity are the main differentiators in more markets. I did a little research to see what existing frameworks might apply to this thinking. And came across the Design hierarchy of needs ,coined by William Lidwell, which is on the Maslow hierarchy of needs. In this episode, I jam about how Lidwell's framework describes the earlier stages and how I plan to implement all of that at Lunch Pail. Li...

I read an article yesterday on how a water brand for partygoers called Liquid Death just raised $73 million 🤯. It got me thinking about all the upstarts that generate serious revenues with style and identity. I've talked about this idea previously and. I also think product categories go through three main stages before arriving at a place where it makes sense for style and that's when most of the solutions on the market are generally sufficiently good. Jamming on all of those ideas in this episo...

Jamming on cohort-based courses on why I think they're a massive cheat code for solopreneurs. This podcast was also an atomic essay check it out here.

A quick recap episode of the year. Hope everyone has a splendid new year and I wish many good things to all of you in 2022!

I'm a big fan of Atomic habits and I credit a lot of how Lunch Pail Labs operates to the framing but I haven't been investing enough energy into deliberate practice which is also related. I explore what all that means, why it matters and what I'm trying to change moving forward in today's episode. Resources mentioned in the podcast: Farnam's blog on deliberate practice Ness Labs on metacognition This youtube video by James Clear on Deliberate practice

Today's episode is all about setting boundaries as a solopreneur what that even means and some of my boundaries at Lunch Pail Labs. Below are the links I referenced in the episode for some more boundary-setting reading/listening. How to set boundaries w/ Nancy Levin No meeting, No deadlines no full-time employees

I'm currently reading Doing Content Right by Steph Smith and distribution is finally starting to make more sense. In this episode, i quickly describe the six different distribution strategies and how I think they apply to Lunch Pail Labs' consulting practice and this podcast.

Jamming on the nature of the firm and the rise of solopreneurship. Why aren't we living in a world where everyone contracts out their services as independent contractors and are recent trends in legoizing businesses, the pandemic, and web 3 now enabling that? Also jamming about product opportunities in the space.

It's the weekly, week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jaz at Lunch Pail Labs.

Jamming about authentic businesses in this episode and what that means and how that's coupling with consumer demand for products and services with style.

Just finished up a vision board for 2022 and wanted to jam a little bit on the reflection and vision setting practice I maintain outside of weekly reviews!

Just minted my first NFT and it was the Bildr studio pass (learn more here). I jam a little about that and why I decided to jump on the web 3 train and mint this one.

Some ramblings on no-code and Lunch Pail Labs inspired by this article on Jeff Bezos's strategy of focusing on the things that are unlikely to change.

It's the weekly, week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jaz at Lunch Pail Labs.

According to recent research from Gartner, 70% of new applications developed by organizations will use low-code or no-code technologies by 2025 🤯. I think that increase will fuel a robust plugin/integration/extension ecosystem for developers to support a variety of use-cases on these platforms. In this episode, I dive into what that means and how I'm looking to run product experiments in that space in 2022.

Got this question recently and thought building in public served 3 main audiences and jam on what that means in this episode.

One of my favorite things is convincing folks not to work with an agency (no-code or otherwise) to build their product. In this episode, I dive into why and who I think is a good fit for outsourcing product development.

Today's episode is all about the content approach I'll try for 2022. I am looking at breaking out content into a few different "brands" that serve different audiences. First, @Lunchpaillabs will be a place for how-tos and frameworks around building products for no-coders/visual developers or using no-code/visual development to iterate and develop products. The goal is that it's helpful for people who I would consider typical clients on the consulting side of Lunch Pail Labs. Second, @Lunchpail...

Today's episode is all about a revamp to my week in review process for assessing the good, bad, and ugly at Lunch Pail Labs. This week's episode also comes with a free template through Gumroad if you want your own copy to start using! Link here: https://bit.ly/lunchpailweeklyreview. I also referenced Notion Charts for analytics if you're looking for a lightweight way to add analytics to your notion dashboards.

I recently came across this article https://future.a16z.com/software-style-over-branding/ and got me thinking about finding niches, authentic businesses, and this episode is all about that. Check it out and if you do, slide into my DMS and tell me what you think (https://twitter.com/ojabowalola)

Recently read the Win Without Pitching Manifesto (https://www.winwithoutpitching.com/the-manifesto/) by recommendation of Roxana (@notionflows on twitter!) and it spurred all the thoughts on things i could be doing better at Lunch Pail Labs. This episode is a reflection on some of that and thoughts on the book generally.