Should You Work with Your Friends? (Ep. 281)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Personal Branding, Career, Productivity, Business, Learning, Lifehacking, College, University, Education, 101, Lifestyle Design, Work Smart, Class

4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Business and friends don't mix. At least, that's the common wisdom, and for good reason. Still, we've made it work for years. Should you take the risk? Full show notes This week’s episode is sponsored by: Audible: Get a free audiobook download, 2 free Audible originals, and a free 30-day trial by going to Audible.com/CIG or texting “CIG” to 500-500 on your phone. Skillshare: With thousands of courses in a wide range of different skills, Skillshare can help you take things to the next level. Get started with 2 free months of unlimited learning (including Thomas' Productivity Masterclass!) at Skillshare.com/geek. Things mentioned in this episode: Turtles All the Way Down, by John Green Rationality: From AI to Zombies, by Eliezer Yudkowsky LessWrong Ali Abdaal on YouTube Ali Abdaal's Final Cut Pro course on Skillshare Benjamin Heath's Portrait Photography course on Skillshare CharityWatch Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. Timestamps: 0:02:30 - Occasions where working with friends didn't go so well 0:19:18 - How we've managed to work together 0:29:03 - Sponsor: Audible (Listening to audiobooks) 0:33:42 - Sponsor: Skillshare (Learning new skills) 0:35:54 - Splitting benefits fairly 0:52:08 - Working with a significant other 1:08:41 - Conclusion If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:37.0	the internet's best resource for getting your hands on...
0:41.0	What am I? I don't even know something. I don't even know where my brain went there.
0:48.0	We're the internet's best resource for flubbing your intro I guess but we're the internet's worst resource for
0:55.1	having a 280 first intro joke that actually lands.
1:01.1	We don't have that. That's fair we did not that. You have to go to another podcast with
1:06.0	281 episodes. How many calendar days do you think that Jerry Seinfeld
1:10.4	crossed off? Because you know the old story about how he got good at jokes and comedy by just, you know, marking off every single day that he wrote a joke and he had the whole don't break the chain method.
1:21.0	Do you think it was more than 281? Did I just fail the Seinfeld method?
1:25.7	Honestly, I've heard some people say that on a quiet dark night you can still hear Jerry Seinfeld crossing off his calendar in your house
1:36.4	What am I hearing? Can I point the mic at the table to get this like this fully?
1:48.2	Jerry point the mic at the table to get this like this fully. Jerry? Is that you Jerry? I told you to stay out of my house. It's okay, Martin. Can't you take a joke?
1:54.0	Horror movie starring Jerry Seinfeld.
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