MegaMaker - Wealth, twitter fights, and gen-z

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Here's a few things I found lately that I think you'll enjoy:

💰 Thoughts on wealth, from Logic:

Jordan Harbinger interviewed Logic (the rapper) on his podcast. Logic grew up poor, and had some thoughts on money, now that he's rich:

This lines up with my own experience. I wrote about it here.
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🗯️ A disagreement with Jonathan Stark

I recently tweeted this:

Justin Jackson @mijustin I’m not convinced that startups can solve for the “customers signing up and not using the product” problem. The motivation to use a product seems completely based on the forces in someone’s life. That “pull” has to be consistent/strong enough to translate into regular usage. September 21st 2021 6 Retweets 99 Likes

Jonathan Stark replied: "I strongly disagree but I recognize that there is a lot of nuance to it. 🙂 Wanna do a podcast episode about it?"

We recorded this episode, and I think it's one of my favorites:

Jonathan pushes back on a lot of my core ideas; and I think we both were "sharpened" as a result of the conversation. If you listen, let us know!
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🙋‍♀️ My 18-year-old daughter wrote an article for the Transistor blog

My daughter researched and wrote this article on how Gen Z listens to podcasts. It's good!

I've always wondered how I can involve my kids in my work; this ended up being a great way to do it. Plus, it was exciting to see her learning more about podcasting, the industry, the tech ecosystem, etc..

Hope you're doing well!

Cheers,
Justin Jackson
​@mijustin​

🤯 PS: Here's a Meeps update

Josh has been making incredible progress on Meeps. It's an alternative to Substack, Patreon, and Memberful. There are already 20+ early access users; you can become an early access user too!

Here's a video demo I just made:

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