I’m Dan Benjamin. I’m a podcaster, writer, and software developer. I’m the founder of Fireside, a podcast hosting and analytics platform I helped create to make podcast hosting easy, reliable, and fun. I’m also the founder of the 5by5 Podcast Network where I get to talk to with my friends and heroes while fullfilling my lifelong dream of doing talk radio.
In a past life, I was a corporate stooge and eventual CTO of several startups. I've written for A List Apart and O’Reilly, made screencasts for PluralSight, and been coding for almost two decades. I co-founded a pre-Facebook social network about wine called Cork’d (acquired by Gary Vaynerchuk) and a website for parents called Playgrounder (aquired by Uncrate). I’ve seen The Exorcist about 167 times and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it.
I’m based in Austin, Texas, known for it's great music, amazing food (especially BBQ), and full-sized pickup trucks, all three of which I enjoy immensely.
Dan Benjamin has hosted 121 Episodes.
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85: Pandemic
February 5th, 2016 | Season 1 | 1 hr 35 mins
Dan talks about being specific vs general, miscommunication, misunderstandings, lazy writing, and his step back from Twitter.
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84: Regular Day At The Office
January 29th, 2016 | Season 1 | 1 hr 12 mins
Dan talks about tipping, the service industry, and answers listener email.
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83: If It Ain't Broke
January 8th, 2016 | Season 1 | 1 hr 11 mins
Dan talks about staying true to your 'cash cow' and and answers listener emails.
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82: Travel Pt. 1
December 31st, 2015 | Season 1 | 1 hr 38 mins
Dan and Haddie talk about how to optimize travel in order to reduce stress.
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81: Exception to the Rule
December 23rd, 2015 | Season 1 | 1 hr 12 mins
Dan talks about having an exit strategy, his strong opinion on ping pong tables, and responds to listener emails.
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80: You Have One Job
December 11th, 2015 | Season 1 | 50 mins 17 secs
Dan talks about realizing your work can be narrowed down to one job and making sure you do that job well and responds to listener emails.
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79: The Things You Own
December 4th, 2015 | Season 1 | 1 hr 9 mins
Dan talks about sources of stress and how to reduce it, minimalism, purging, travel tips, packing techniques, and listener emails.
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78: Sleep is a Weapon
November 20th, 2015 | Season 1 | 1 hr 3 mins
Dan talks about the importance of time and time saving practices, sleep as a weapon, how having money affects people and responds to listener emails.
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77: Step 1: Reply
November 11th, 2015 | Season 1 | 1 hr 28 mins
Dan talks about the challenges facing Millennials, the importance of follow through, horrible offices, being self-aware in your daily life and at the workplace, and listener emails.
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76: My Latest Mistake
November 6th, 2015 | Season 1 | 1 hr 27 mins
Dan talks about the reality of competition, the challenges of predicting a small business' future, doing your best work, participation trophies, and responds to listener emails. Haddie refuses to be fired.
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75: Tag! You're it.
October 9th, 2015 | Season 1 | 1 hr 40 mins
Dan talks about follow through, customer service, email bankruptcy, flippin' burgers, answers some listener questions, and more.
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74: Fast and Beautiful
September 25th, 2015 | Season 1 | 1 hr 18 mins
Dan responds to listener emails, talks about predicting the future of your business, and only doing what you're good at.