Dealing with the highs and lows, plus the future of the pod!

In this episode, we talk about the struggles of running a remote agency, Miscreants’ wild Black Friday merch sales, making a newsletter, new goals for a new year, and the podcast’s future.

Show Notes

(0:27) Running an agency is like leading geese while not knowing where you're going

(5:45) Holidays While Remote: Having fun traditional office stuff is hard

(9:11) Miscreants’ Black Friday merch sales were so high that Sean became a folding master

(11:56) The hardest part of having a newsletter is making it

(15:05) Krit learned some interesting things from testing their design audit process

(19:30) And Miscreants is launching a YouTube channel

(23:55) Andrew and Sean might share an Airbnb for RSA

(26:43) If Greg's happy, Andrew's happy

(29:30) Andrew and Sean and the future of the pod

 

Thanks for listening to Small Efforts, a podcast collaboration between Krit and Miscreants. Shoutout to the Hatch Team and Mary Vuong for producing and editing.

 

Links:

• Andrew’s Twitter: @AndrewAskins
• Andrew's website: https://www.andrewaskins.com/
• Chartkit: https://www.chartkit.io/
• Krit: https://www.krit.com/ 
• Miscreants: https://www.miscreants.co/ 
• Sean’s Twitter: @seanqsun
• Hatch Team: https://www.hatch.team/
• Krit’s InfoSec VC list: https://www.krit.com/infosec-vcs 
• Krit’s Product People Interview with Haroon Meer: https://www.krit.com/blog/sweating-the-small-stuff-with-haroon-meer-founder-of-thinkst-canary 
• Malcolm Gladwell’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Blink-Power-Thinking-Without/dp/0316010669 
• Mike Monnik’s Infosec Black Friday List: https://github.com/0x90n/InfoSec-Black-Friday 

For more information about the podcast, check out https://www.smalleffortspod.com/.

What is Small Efforts - with Sean Sun and Andrew Askins?

Two agency owners and friends talk about cybersecurity, design, and the continuous small efforts it takes to build a business.