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Let's Chat03 February 2024

A New Direction for Deep Dive - Let's Chat

3Frameworks
15Insights

Frameworks in this episode

Insights & moments

The myth-busts, hot takes, explainers, and tools worth keeping.

Myth Buster· 1

Myth Buster18:00

Beyond a point, more money stops buying more happiness

“the achievements and the accolades don't actually give you any happiness”

Ali Abdaal · 18:00

“running a $100 million business is generally a lot more stressful than running a $1 million business”

Ali Abdaal · 18:30

Hot Take· 3

Hot Take06:30

Indigestion is more likely to kill a growing business than starvation

“at a certain point in a business's growth like in digestion is more likely to kill you than starvation”

Ali Abdaal · 06:30

“the podcast was like number four on the on the priority list”

Ali Abdaal · 07:00
Hot Take11:30

The harder problem is when it works but doesn't feel right

“a far bigger problem with a business is where you try something and it doesn't work”

Ali Abdaal · 12:00
Hot Take18:30

The lifestyle business case against growth at all costs

“if what you want is freedom fund flexibility and decent cash flow there's no need to try and Grow Big”

Ali Abdaal · 18:30

“there's this whole like Silicon valy mentality that's often in a lot of these like entrepreneurship podcasts around growth at all costs”

Ali Abdaal · 19:00

Explainer· 3

Explainer01:00

How systemising and scaling turned the podcast into a conveyor belt

“it turned into sort of this like conveyor belt of episodes which is fine if the thing that you want to do is grow”

Ali Abdaal · 01:00

“I'd be doing batch filming weeks or I'd be filming 15 episodes in a week and wouldn't really have time to read the books of…”

Ali Abdaal · 01:00
Explainer04:30

What happened when audience feedback started shaping the show

“let's mold the podcast to what the audience wants from us”

Ali Abdaal · 05:30

“it would look like every week for 15 weeks Ali's talking about the same thing but in my in reality it was just like a…”

Ali Abdaal · 05:00
Explainer08:00

The head vs heart trade-off every entrepreneur eventually faces

“there is this trade-off between doing a thing for the money or doing a thing for the growth or doing a thing for whatever external…”

Ali Abdaal · 08:30

“I left medicine which was a is a very prestigious and stable stable and somewhat well-paying career path to do this YouTube entrepreneur author thing”

Ali Abdaal · 09:00

Story· 3

Story00:00

Why season 8 marks an inflection point for Deep Dive

“there is a sense in which doing deep dive episodes has started to feel a little bit like a job for me”

Ali Abdaal · 00:30
Story03:30

Deep Dive as a case study in monetising a hobby

“a hobby is a thing that you do for yourself I was asking the questions I wanted to ask”

Ali Abdaal · 04:00

“the enjoyment of it became a side effect rather than the main reason for doing it that's when it really started to inch into that…”

Ali Abdaal · 06:00
Story14:00

The real return on podcasting is the friends you make

“if anyone wants to start a podcast really would recommend um not necessarily because it's easy to grow a podcast but because of the the…”

Ali Abdaal · 14:00

“now Dan priestle has become a friend and a mentor and he helps us out when we're struggling with business stuff”

Ali Abdaal · 15:00

Q&A· 1

Q&A13:00

Feedback still matters, but he reserves the right not to act on it

“we can simply choose not to act on it if it doesn't if it doesn't Vibe with my heart”

Ali Abdaal · 13:00

Takeaway· 4

Takeaway02:00

The new format: opportunistic recordings and open-sourced Zoom calls

“I want to kind of Open Source these conversations and publish those also as episodes of Deep dive”

Ali Abdaal · 03:00

“we might not have an episode happening every week there are still a bunch of interviews that we've recorded over the last year or so…”

Ali Abdaal · 02:00
Takeaway10:30

What's coming: coaching sessions and recorded Zoom calls

“these conversations are the sorts of things that I think people get a lot of value from but they don't fit the bill of a…”

Ali Abdaal · 11:00

“you tend not to see the inside of what does a business coaching session look like”

Ali Abdaal · 11:00
Takeaway19:30

Health: make it easy, and train in the morning

“find a way to make it easy so that you can be consistent”

Ali Abdaal · 19:30

“most of these entrepreneur type people who are very busy they make time to work out in the morning because if you do it in…”

Ali Abdaal · 20:00
Takeaway22:00

Season 8 is an experiment, and it may well be reversed

“the podcast is not stopping it is continuing it's just going to be a little bit more like loose in terms of the format at…”

Ali Abdaal · 22:00

“maybe six months from now I'll decide you know what actually I really miss doing the podcast with regularity let's just go back into it”

Ali Abdaal · 22:00