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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 23/09/2026

when my teen comes upstairs and bugs me during my show. cc @mostlytechnical.com

Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 22/09/2026

Wow. @jackrhysider.bsky.social (Darknet Diaries) just released a new podcast. Looks very good: thisislow.com 👆 Interesting: he links to @johnspurlock.com's OP3 open stats on the homepage.

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LOW — A Podcast

LOW is a podcast about the weight of being and the wreckage of waking up

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The Panel Podcast @thepanel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today we have @aaronfrancis.com joining @briancasel.com @jordangal.bsky.social and @justinjackson.ca on The Panel LIVE. youtube.com/live/WwmJczh... - jev ai - How do we decide what's next? - State of education businesses - State of AI adoption

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THE PANEL LIVESTREAM - Aaron Francis joins Brian Casel, Jordan Gal, Justin Jackson

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 18/09/2026

Nothing goes as hard as this 1986 Turbo Pascal manual

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 17/09/2026

So nice to see my old friend Jarrod on here! Give him a follow. Super talented designer, writer, and business thinker.

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 09/09/2026

Wynford Hall NSI-1103 - Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. Swiveling clock radio Early 1970s

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 08/09/2026

In its own way, every successful business is an outlier. Your goal shouldn't be to start an average business (most businesses are not that good). Your goal should be to build a business that bucks the trend.

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 07/09/2026

Illustration from A+ Magazine, November 1984 archive.org/details/a-pl...

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 06/09/2026

If you run a software business, you should buy @asmartbear.com’s book for the “Find your Carol” chapter alone.

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 05/09/2026

“If you enter every moment of your life at full speed, you’re gonna miss out on some points. Pinball is the same.” Fantastic essay by @monteiro.bsky.social buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

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How to play pinball

What is the best arcade game? Pinball or video, or both.

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The Panel Podcast @thepanel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Come join us for THE PANEL, live today at 11am Pacific. www.youtube.com/live/nXMKYKS... Out-of-the-box marketing Hiring for customer success Buy a business? How to talk to customers Marketing funnels that work Company of one operations @jordangal.bsky.social @briancasel.com @justinjackson.ca

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I’d like to propose a political test called “can you imagine this guy standing behind you in line?” where you choose a guy and if you can’t imagine them standing behind you in line they’re banished to an island for criminals

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 31/08/2026

Too many people overthink a problem before they've even tried doing it once. Spend less time thinking and just do the thing! That's where all the learning actually happens. After you've done it once, you can reflect on what's working and what's not working.

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

More importantly, we need to take data sovereignty more seriously. Why is DSC using Google Maps in the first place? There are cheaper and better options. How do we not have robust and scalable Canadian mapping solutions? (And yes, data sovereignty requires more data centres in Canada.)

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 30/08/2026

Kids these days say they can recognize AI images but I dunno ‘cause this 1984 editorial image from A+ magazine feels like weird AI art to me. archive.org/details/a-pl...

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 29/08/2026

Dell Dimension XPS P 133 from 1995. $2,699!!!

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 28/08/2026

"No matter how much [we try] to pretend otherwise, we all have flaws that we really ought to work on. We live in an unfair and opportunity-rich world where talent, privilege and effort make all the difference, cutting through the facade of blanket “perfection”" www.readtangle.com/bring-back-s...

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Have we no shame?

Against normalization culture.

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Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 25/08/2026

I just had an excellent support interaction over chat at transistor.fm. Which made me realize how rare that is nowadays. Kudos to them. /cc @justinjackson.ca

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 21/08/2026

The good ‘ol tape drive. (Sharp MZ-2500, 1985)

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The Panel Podcast @thepanel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We're livestreaming TODAY (Thursday) at 1pm Pacific (4pm EST). Join @jordangal.bsky.social @briancasel.com @justinjackson.ca Topics: - xAI's land grab - Claude and I broke up. - How can we be more ambitious now? youtube.com/live/sIt2NmT...

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Tyler King @tylerking.app · 20/08/2026

As tech people, when designing features, we tend to get overly clever. But then when you talk to normal people using the software, the things they actually care about tend to be way more basic than you'd ever expect. Keep it simple.

A screenshot of text saying in all caps: I love the way it emails me early in the morning about clients birthdays

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 19/08/2026

I asked Claude to analyze @thepanel.bsky.social (using the @transistor.fm MCP server), and it basically told me the show's been more popular since @jordangal.bsky.social joined the show. 🤣

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 15/08/2026

Back in 2000, while still in college, I read this article about the founders of Great Harvest Bread Co. Their philosophy on life changed how I thought about building a business: justinjackson.ca/the-good-life

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The good life (and how to get it)

How do you build a business that gives you a good life? Make decisions with freedom and simplicity in mind, and it becomes inevitable.

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 12/08/2026

I pre-ordered this book. Highly recommended if you have an existing SaaS and want to find new ways to unlock growth.

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 11/08/2026

IBM Executary 224 Portable Dictation System, 1960 (via formlab)

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 11/08/2026

Peter Block: “An adult-to-adult relationship as one in which you are ‘able to ask for what you want, knowing that the answer may be No and negotiating the difference.”

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 08/08/2026

GREAT quote from a 2020 Hacker News thread: "Sales is a lot like golf. You can make it so complicated as to be impossible, or you can simply walk up and hit the ball. I've been leading and building sales orgs for almost 20 years, and my advice is to walk up and hit the ball." h/t @thorstenball.com

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1. Sales is a lot like golf. You can make it so complicated as to be impossible or you can simply walk up and hit the ball. I've been leading and building sales orgs for almost 20 years and my advice…

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 07/08/2026

In business, three of your biggest risks are: - competitors who understand the customer better than you - competitors who care more about the customer than you - competitors who can act on those insights faster and better than you

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 07/08/2026

Back on the mics today! Join us!

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 04/08/2026

Nothing hits harder than a 1987 PC Magazine editorial cartoon

3.5 inch floppy disc displayed as a guillotine for a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This is why I still love email newsletters. The best filter for What to Pay Attention To remains a thoughtful, human Knower

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 03/08/2026

i'm not a huge fan of how everything is either literally or metaphorically on fire.

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 30/07/2026

“Aim for Protopia. A protopian future is one that is only a little tiny bit better than today.” – Kevin Kelly

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Protopia

For over a decade I have been talking about protopia, but I have never written out my description of it.

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 20/07/2026

Kevin Kelly on the new economy: “When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied. Well, what can’t be copied? There are a number of qualities that can’t be copied. Consider “trust.” You can’t purchase trust.” open.substack.com/pub/kevinkel...

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Better Than Free

In the analog world, it takes great effort to make a copy.

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 19/07/2026

👀 Interesting rebuttal to Jonathan Haidt's "Anxious Generation" > "As a society we have almost a knee-jerk reaction to believe that the solution to any problem experienced by kids is to deprive them of yet one more freedom" archive.ph/uIcCC

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 13/07/2026

Writing code is no longer a hard or rare skill, and that changes things. Great post by @thorstenball.com: "I want to shake them and go: man, don’t you see? All of it was built on the assumption that code is expensive! It doesn’t make sense anymore." registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-cu...

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Joy & Curiosity #78

Interesting & joyful things from the previous week

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 11/07/2026

When more people can build software, what happens to the value of software? In economics, when you increase the supply of something, its market value goes down (and so does the price). Up until now, software was valuable because it was hard to make. You needed a team of engineers, money, and time.

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 11/07/2026

When more people can build software, what happens to the value of software? (Software that would have taken years to build now takes days) justinjackson.ca/software-fable

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The value of software in a Fable world

What happens to the price of software when everyone's building software?

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 10/07/2026

Whenever I can, I ask "normal people" (friends at the coffee shop, Uber drivers, people I meet at meetups) how they consume podcasts. This is the general trend:

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