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2024
- 2024-02-06 · How to Start Your First Business in 48 Hours — recommendation: Ali calls Noah Kagan's Million Dollar Weekend a fantastic book for aspiring entrepreneurs: anyone who has wanted to start a business and has not yet done it needs to read its play-by-play roadmap. — 00:00:00
- 2024-02-06 · How to Start Your First Business in 48 Hours — Ali: Following Noah Kagan's Million Dollar Weekend, Ali calls "I need the right idea" a myth that holds aspiring entrepreneurs back: you start a business by deciding to start one, then find a process to come up with the idea. — 00:00:29
- 2024-02-06 · How to Start Your First Business in 48 Hours — Noah Kagan (quoted): Noah Kagan writes that most people overthink first and act later, while every successful entrepreneur acts first and figures it out later; any analysis ahead of action is speculation. — 00:01:14
- 2024-02-06 · How to Start Your First Business in 48 Hours — recommendation: Ali: Noah Kagan's motto "now, not how" has stuck with Ali since he read the book: instead of being held back by how to do something, ask what is the smallest action you can take right now. — 00:01:43
- 2024-02-06 · How to Start Your First Business in 48 Hours — Noah Kagan (quoted): In Noah Kagan's founder-first example of a dog-walking app, the founder thinks up names, pays for a logo, sets up an LLC, watches videos, considers a bootcamp, buys a domain, prices an Upwork developer, and gives up. — 00:07:35
- 2024-02-06 · How to Start Your First Business in 48 Hours — Noah Kagan (quoted): In Noah Kagan's customer-first version, you ask three dog owners to pay you to walk their dogs, learn that their real problem is finding dog sitters when travelling, and take a deposit for their next trip. — 00:07:58
- 2024-02-06 · How to Start Your First Business in 48 Hours — recommendation: Ali holds up the email of Noah Kagan's friend Boris, who tested a personal-chef meal idea by asking close friends to pay $20 by PayPal for a home-cooked dinner on 9 February, as how to validate a business idea. — 00:09:20
- 2024-02-06 · How to Start Your First Business in 48 Hours — recommendation: Ali: Another source of business ideas is your own problems; Ali fully agrees with Noah Kagan's four prompts: what irritated you this morning, what has sat on your to-do list for over a week, what you regularly fail to do well, and what you wanted to buy but no one made. — 00:10:11
- 2024-02-23 · My Thoughts on Why YouTubers Are Quitting — recommendation: Ali calls Million Dollar Weekend by his friend Noah Kagan a really good book and recommends reading it. — 00:23:39
- 2024-02-27 · 7 Life Lessons I Wish I Knew Sooner — Ali: Beyond material things, Ali counts as dream moments having lunch with entrepreneurs and authors he admires, such as Derek Sivers, Ryan Holiday or Noah Kagan. — 00:23:21
- 2024-03-08 · 4 Steps to Making $10,000/Month in Your First Business — Ali: Noah Kagan's process in Million Dollar Weekend starts with the audience and then the concept, the reverse of Daniel Priestley's order; Ali says it is basically the same, depending on which order you prefer. — 00:07:12
- 2024-04-23 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — recommendation: Ali's recommended reading list for getting started with entrepreneurship: The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco, Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kagan, $100M Offers by Alex Hormozi and DotCom Secrets by Russell Brunson. — 00:26:39
- 2024-04-23 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — recommendation: Ali: Someone who has already read loads about starting a business without acting should skip more reading and just take action, Ali says, for example on what Noah Kagan's Million Dollar Weekend says. — 00:29:54
- 2024-05-02 · The biggest misconception about starting a business 🙄 — recommendation: Ali: On starting a business without quitting your job, Ali recommends Noah Kagan's book Million Dollar Weekend, and also The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco and The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. — 00:00:38
- 2024-06-28 · How to Not Screw Up Your 30s — Ali: Noah Kagan hosted Ali at his house in Austin for a month while Ali was there last year (2023). — 00:26:26
- 2024-06-28 · How to Not Screw Up Your 30s — Noah Kagan says life keeps getting better with age: 30 is better than 20, and 40 better still. — 00:26:55
- 2024-06-28 · How to Not Screw Up Your 30s — recommendation: Noah Kagan thinks decade birthdays are overhyped: the best birthday is simply spent with close friends, or quality time with your parents over a nice meal or camping. — 00:27:25
- 2024-06-28 · How to Not Screw Up Your 30s — recommendation: Noah Kagan advises writing out where you think and want to be at 40, which he says will surprise you and give you direction. — 00:27:54
- 2024-06-28 · How to Not Screw Up Your 30s — recommendation: Noah Kagan advises keeping up whatever is working for you now, in health, business, YouTube, friends, relationships and where you live, for another ten years. — 00:27:54
- 2024-06-28 · How to Not Screw Up Your 30s — recommendation: Noah Kagan advises starting skincare now, with facials, lotions and sunblock, to be grateful for it at 40, 50 and 60. — 00:28:52
- 2024-06-28 · How to Not Screw Up Your 30s — Noah Kagan's last advice is to enjoy it all: the things you have worked on, the people you work with, the places you are, the food, and the journey. — 00:29:21
- 2024-08-20 · 3 Bad Habits Holding You Back from Financial Freedom — recommendation: Ali's business books for learning to build businesses: Noah Kagan's Million Dollar Weekend, MJ DeMarco's The Millionaire Fastlane, Codie Sanchez's new book, which he calls very good, Ankur Warikoo's Make Epic Money, Russell Brunson's DotCom Secrets and anything by Alex Hormozi. — 00:06:50
- 2024-12-24 · 19 Books to Transform Your 2026 — recommendation: Ali: To anyone who actually wants to start a business rather than just read about it forever, Ali 100% recommends Noah Kagan's Million Dollar Weekend, which helps you take action. — 00:09:25
- 2024-12-27 · My honest advice to someone who wants passive income — recommendation: Ali: For anyone stuck without a business idea, Ali points to Noah Kagan's Million Dollar Weekend and its first-chapter Now, Not How challenge: ask one person you respect for a business idea. — 00:12:01
- 2024-12-27 · My honest advice to someone who wants passive income — recommendation: Noah Kagan (quoted): Noah Kagan's challenge gives a script to text a friend now: you know me well, so what kind of business do you think I'd be good at? — 00:12:39
Also named in: Don't Quit Your Day Job Yet 🤔, If I started a business in 2024... 🤔
2022
- 2022-01-31 · 20 Podcasts That Changed My Life (and Business) — Ali: Around 2019 and 2020, working out how to market his business and grow his courses, Ali listened to 20 episodes of Noah Kagan Presents and 12 of Amy Porterfield's Online Marketing Made Easy, and found them super useful. — 00:11:26
- 2022-03-21 · The Biggest Lessons from 110 Books — Ali plans to read Ricardo Semler's Radical, recommended by Noah Kagan, this year (2022), because Semler ran his business in a rogue fashion more in line with how Ali wants to run his. — 00:29:24
2021
- 2021-08-22 · My Most Important Weekly Habit — Ali says Noah Kagan, Tim Ferriss, Ryan Holiday and James Clear all sing the praises of an email newsletter, because it is the only guaranteed way to contact your audience. — 00:07:05
- 2021-09-08 · The Best Productivity Hacks of All Time — Ali ranks colour-coding the calendar by category, which his friend Noah Kagan uses a lot, D, because he does not use it himself. — 00:07:46
2020
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan was employee number 30 at Facebook and number 4 at Mint, then founded AppSumo, which he calls an eight-figure company and the number one site for software deals. — 00:00:58
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah says college is the best time to start a business, with time and little downside: take as many risks as you can early, because people get safe and scared of losing as they age. — 00:03:35
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: Noah listed every business he has started, more than 20, and says that after 20 years of trying he is now worth over a million dollars. — 00:05:24
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: Noah's 10-year rule: work on something for 10 years and you will become a millionaire if that is your goal, or reach whatever success you want as a musician, artist or writer. — 00:05:53
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah encourages people to find the work they would do with a million dollars in the bank and do it now, because doing it is how they will earn the million. — 00:08:48
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah advises finding work you enjoy that makes money while keeping hobbies, as an ice-cream maker who had not eaten ice cream in two years showed him that doing what you love full-time can spoil it. — 00:11:02
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: Noah was fired from Facebook; he thinks they were right to fire him, and it gave him a chip on his shoulder that drove him to do other things. — 00:13:00
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: If you work for someone, Noah says, ask whether you are invaluable: how far the company would be set back if it replaced you today. — 00:13:30
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: To climb out of a low point such as being fired, Noah says first rebuild confidence and self-worth with things you can control, such as making your bed or doing a push-up, then help one person. — 00:15:59
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah's coffee challenge: wherever you buy something, usually a cafe, ask for 10% off, to practise asking, which he calls one of the most powerful muscles anyone can develop. — 00:17:27
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah advises building your brand and audience early, with a blog or a newsletter, because no one can take that away from you. — 00:18:46
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: To find his calling, Noah tells a viewer to look back at what he enjoyed as a child and at what he does in his spare time for free. — 00:22:46
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah treats jealousy as a compass to what you want or don't want: rather than worrying about being behind peers, decide where you want to be, starting with the end of the month. — 00:24:28
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: Noah wrote a Fantasy 2020, a fiction story of where he would be at the end of 2020 if the year were unreal: Oktoberfest, the Joe Rogan show, hanging out with Ali. — 00:25:19
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah starts every morning with his GEBY routine, tracked in the Strides app: gratitude, exercise, breakfast and something for yourself. — 00:27:04
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: Noah's guiding phrase is "no apologies": he asks what you would do if you never had to apologise, and says it has made him more outspoken in his content. — 00:35:38
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah says you need things to look forward to, and if you have none this week (week of 27 April 2020), make something; he also keeps fantasy lists of adventures, such as living in a van. — 00:37:25
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: Noah says we are proud of things we actually had to work for, not of money that simply came to us, such as the payout when Teachable sold. — 00:42:32
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: Noah says he believes in fulfilment and control rather than happiness: happiness can be easy and fleeting, fulfilment is challenging. — 00:45:44
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: If you are unsure whether a purchase would make a difference, Noah says, try it out without committing, as he did by renting a nice house before buying one. — 00:48:46
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah's "optimise the 80%": invest in what you spend your time on, such as your bed and computer, and not in things that matter less to you, such as clothes. — 00:50:05
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — ask: Noah Kagan: Noah offers to ship a copy of A Million Miles in a Thousand Years anywhere in the world to five commenters who say what action they will take from the conversation, picked by Ali's team about seven days after the video. — 00:51:48
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: To find your talents, Noah says look at what you gravitate to in free time, ask a friend you respect what your unique talent is, and try many things to learn what you don't like. — 00:53:07
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah's advice to high school students: treat life as a buffet and try many dishes, from Boy Scouts to online businesses and reading clubs. — 00:54:51
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah tells high school students to think about who they surround themselves with: he spent more time with friends who went on to tech and less with those who were only cool in school. — 00:55:20
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: Noah calls success a horrible word and says decide your own metric: when he chased money he was less fulfilled and earned less, and when he did what he loved he earned most. — 00:58:47
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah's premise for a beginner's blog or website: don't spend money until you start making money; YouTube is free. — 00:59:40
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Starting today, Noah would use YouTube, Instagram and a SendFox newsletter, and post at least weekly for a year before even thinking of stopping. — 01:00:02
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah advises finding the medium that suits your style, whether audio, writing or photos, and committing to it weekly for a year. — 01:00:44
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah's "sex cash theory": like an actor who follows a blockbuster with an indie film, a creator makes videos that bring in the audience and also experimental, more creative ones. — 01:04:28
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Being an influencer is as much work as any job, Noah says, so work out what you would work on for free and keep enjoying whatever it pays. — 01:05:35
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah tells people without the job they want to work for free for someone living the life they admire: email them offering value, such as three things they could do, for free. — 01:07:38
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: Citing a man paddling his canoe fast up the wrong stream, an image he believes comes from Gary Halbert, Noah says efficiency differs from effectiveness: work on the right things. — 01:12:52
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah colour-codes his Google Calendar by goal, purple for content creation and yellow for learning, to see at a glance how much of his week serves each goal. — 01:14:01
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah has seen three systems of goals that each work: objective goals such as a revenue target, progress goals that only ask whether something grows, and system goals such as the gym three times a week. — 01:16:14
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: A subscriber target for his YouTube channel would kill Noah's motivation: he just enjoys putting out videos. — 01:17:25
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: Noah says it is really hard to know what you want but easy to get it once you know, so spend more time working out what you really want. — 01:19:01
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: Noah set his podcast a goal of 100,000 downloads an episode, quit when he reached 30,000, and restarted months later with the goal of one episode he loves a week; it now gets 10,000. — 01:20:08
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah's first productivity tip: set your trackpad or mouse to full tracking speed, or you are doing half work. — 01:23:17
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah says type at least 80 words a minute: practise 20 minutes a day on keybr.com, ratatype.com and 10fastfingers until you get there. — 01:24:09
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah recommends learning the Gmail keyboard shortcuts, listed by pressing shift and question mark, to save hours of your life. — 01:24:31
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: Once you are 30, Noah says, you don't change your productivity system: find the one that works and don't get sidetracked by which to-do app to use. — 01:25:00
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah calls optimising your bedroom the number one thing to do, because the whole day depends on how you get up. — 01:25:53
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: Noah calls a mattress topper, at $50 at most, the most affordable way to upgrade your sleep. — 01:27:54
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah unfollowed everyone on Instagram, so there is nothing to see, and has no email on his phone. — 01:30:01
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: Noah asks of every activity whether it adds or subtracts: people give their time away accidentally, and Instagram and YouTube are optimised to waste it. — 01:31:27
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah recommends the News Feed Eradicator Chrome extension for Facebook. — 01:32:15
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah sets goals in one-year segments and makes each year's goals a bucket list, in five categories: work, workout, living, personal and travel. — 01:35:41
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah reads his goals every day and says to keep them in view in as many places as possible, such as on the mirror. — 01:37:26
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: Noah's word of the year is congruency: he wants how he behaves in relationships, at work and towards himself to be aligned. — 01:38:02
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: Noah used to hedge his advice; after therapy he stopped apologising and began putting out what he believes. — 01:43:58
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: From the Dalai Lama's The Art of Happiness Noah takes being intentional with your words; he has dropped "I think" and "try" to speak definitively. — 01:46:16
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: Noah says an entrepreneur cannot be satisfied: someone satisfied has no problems they want to solve. — 01:48:32
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah recommends Teaching as a Subversive Activity, on how schools would be if they were not run like factories. — 01:49:06
- 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: After Keith Ferrazzi's Never Eat Alone, Noah advises becoming a hub that connects people: life is richer, people see you as an expert, and it builds a community. — 01:54:27
- 2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — Ali: Ecamm is Ali's new favourite app for live streaming, used for his livestream with Noah Kagan; he thinks it costs $80 and is worth every penny. (hedged) — 00:20:53
- 2020-05-17 · My Productive Birthday in Lockdown - Day in the Life Vlog — Ali: Among the Amazon deliveries is Ricardo Semler's book Maverick, recommended by Ali's friend Noah Kagan, which goes on his to-read list. — 00:03:40
- 2020-05-19 · How To Make Money Online - The 3 Levels — Ali: The audience need not be big, Ali says: his friend Noah Kagan, who runs a marketing podcast, shows that with the right small audience you can easily sell a product. — 00:15:38
- 2020-09-25 · How Stoicism Made Me Happier — Ali describes his friend Noah Kagan's coffee challenge, which he thinks Tim Ferriss also references in a book: when ordering coffee, ask for 10% off and see what happens. (hedged) — 00:09:40
2019
- 2019-12-11 · What's on my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020) — Ali's podcast queue also holds Noah Kagan and many episodes of Derek Sivers's new podcast, each only about a minute long. — 00:07:15
Also named in other years (nothing said): If I Wanted to Grow An Audience in 2026, I'd Do This (2023-11-28)