{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Old School / New Tech","title":"E06: How I Work: My Solo Dev Setup, Time Management, and Running two Companies","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1584,"description":"How I Work: My Solo Dev Setup, Time Management, and Running two Companies\nA solo episode answering a question I keep getting asked: how do I get through it all?\nI walk through my full setup - the dedicated remote Mac that acts as my \"local\" environment, Droid as my coding harness, Paseo for exploratory work, Cloop for mature codebases, MUXI as my assistant running through Claude Desktop over MCP - plus why I self-host almost everything, and it has nothing to do with saving money.\nThen the harder part: how I manage time. My job stopped being doing the work and became deciding which bucket the work goes in. I make 20-30 decisions a day and almost all of them are classifications - rails or agents, automated or human, or time to kill the process entirely. Anything I've done more than a few times gets automated into one of three buckets. Most of my time goes into thinking rather than typing, stripping products back to first principles and deciding what not to build.\nI also cover why most of my automations are deliberately gated behind human approval, why I read every line the agents produce, how Automaze actually runs without me, where leads really come from after 15 years of open source, and why I embed myself as the FDE with every new client before handing off.\nAll of it exists to protect the context in my head. Everything else is scaffolding.\n00:00 Welcome and Envapor\n00:50 Why My Workflow\n02:16 Cloud Local Setup\n04:03 Coding Tools Stack\n07:26 Personal Productivity Apps\n08:51 Self-Hosting Philosophy\n09:46 Multi-Agent Workflow\n10:35 Time Management Decisions\n11:54 Automation Buckets\n14:40 Research and Judgment\n17:25 Email and Gated AI\n19:45 Running Automaze VarOps\n20:58 Inbound Leads Flywheel\n22:08 FDE Founder Onboarding\n25:16 Wrap Up and Newsletter\n\n-----\nOld School / New Tech is produced by VarOps.\nSubscribe to the newsletter – the written version of this show, weekly: varops.com\nRead the books – Company-Scale Agentic AI (for operators and the C-suite) and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/13nrINn33mdG7k8LoP1Ez_oYKpPxbcHmR2r_rrXw8jQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85YTRj/ZGQ0Y2RkZDdmMGY4/NzdjYjgxNjI4OWQ5/YTdkYS5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}