5: Starting Something New

How do you start a new project and make it successful? Vikram and Subu discuss starting the Half Life Show, and how they navigated challenges as first-time podcasters. They also share their experiences with technical blogging and open source programming, while identifying their past mistakes, finding strategies to beat inertia, and brainstorming ideas to sustain and grow a new project into something successful.

Links

• 1000 True Fans
• Black Earth - Subu's and Vikram's previous project
• Subu's Technical Blog
• Scikit-RF - FOSS project that Vikram contributed to
• Trevor Noah's Book - Born a Crime

Chapters

00:03 Kissing the Rug
02:21 Narcissistic Creations
06:10 Starting a Podcast
11:15 1000 True Fans
13:46 Having a Consistent Workflow
19:27 Beating Inertia
24:37 Hidden Benefits of New Projects
28:59 Sustaining and Growing Projects
35:18 Outro

Let's Get Social

• Twitter
• Instagram
• Youtube
• Website

Let's Get Social

• Twitter
• Instagram
• Youtube
• Website

Chapters

• 0:03 Kissing the Rug
• 2:20 Narcissistic Creations
• 6:09 Starting a Podcast
• 11:15 1000 True Fans
• 13:46 Having a Consistent Workflow
• 19:26 Beating Inertia
• 24:37 Hidden Benefits of New Projects
• 28:58 Sustaining and Growing Projects
• 35:18 Outro