Jonathan Endicott — Audio
Most of what Jonathan Endicott writes is meant to be read. These two pieces were written to be heard. They are looser than the essays, closer to how you would explain an idea to a friend than how you would argue it on paper, and each one runs a little over a minute. Every recording has a transcript on its own page, so nothing here is audio-only.
Deciding Without All the Answers
Starts with a good problem: a product selling faster than you can restock it, and an order you have to place before the numbers you want exist. The test it offers is one question, can I undo this, and the escape hatch most people forget, which is ordering half.
Read the transcript · Download the MP3 · Related essay: Evidence Over Opinion · The YouTube Short version
Good Hours vs. Long Hours
Two people run the same kind of business. One works twelve hours a day, the other about seven with the notifications off. By week six the first one is rereading the same email four times. It ends with the habit that took longest to learn: pick an end time and guard it, imperfectly.
Read the transcript · Download the MP3 · Related essay: Rest Is Part of the Work
Why so short
A minute is long enough to make one point and give one example, and short enough to listen to between two other things. Anything that needs more room works better as a written essay. The full list of essays is where the longer arguments live.
If you would rather listen in a podcast app, there is a podcast page with a feed you can subscribe to. Video versions of some of these ideas are on the Jonathan Endicott YouTube channel. Everything else is on the Jonathan Endicott hub.
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