The Pipeline

Aaron Hillegass joins Dan Benjamin to discuss writing, his path as an entrepreneur, Apple, NeXT, Steve Jobs, speaking, conferences, monastic developers, and more.

Rich Siegel, founder of Bare Bones, talks with Dan Benjamin about his company's long history, shaping products, building, growing and supporting a business and customer base, running a virtual company, hiring the right people, and more.

Jonathan Mann, best known as the "song a day guy", talks with Dan Benjamin about songwriting, creativity, inspiration, music, the web, and fighting negativity with positive honesty.

Ethan Marcotte talks with Dan Benjamin about writing, design, creativity, being an entrepreneur vs. a corporate stooge, responsive web design, and more.

Craig Adams, creator of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery joins Dan Benjamin to talk about creating the game, Steve Jobs and Nintendo's Miyamoto, the importance of crafting user experience, impossible transitions, and "pretending long enough" to be successful.

Horace Dediu joins Dan Benjamin to discuss to discuss the life of the professional smartphone analyst, how he built asymco.com to 500,000 readers in only 9 months, curated market intelligence, the language of business, engineering, asymmetry, fearlessness, knowing what you're doing, the post-pc world, and the concept of the disruptive lens.

Michael Friedman joins Dan Benjamin to talk about reality television, winning an Emmy, online audio and video, record companies, cable TV, the future of media as we know it, changing careers from "suit to editor," scarcity, creativity, and more.

Ze Frank joins Dan Benjamin to discuss writing, video work, The Show, Star.me, creativity, and business.

Philip Elmer-DeWitt, 30-year magazine veteran, joins Dan Benjamin to discuss writing, technology, apple, and the changing world of online publishing.

Garrett Dimon joins Dan Benjamin to discuss going independent, starting a business, the entrepreneurial spirit, big wins, dark days, and more.

Robert Scoble joins Dan Benjamin to discuss the future of the tech newsroom, watching patterns, filtering information, trust, honesty, technology, content curation, branding, your reputation online, and "looking for magic."

Dave Nanian joins Dan Benjamin to discuss his experience and share his wisdom regarding his success as an entrepreneur and commercial software developer. They talk about creating exciting, useful, and well engineered applications, slow successes, startups

Jessica Hische joins Dan Benjamin to discuss design, illustration, school and work, creative spaces, hand-lettering, type design, inspiration, freelance, and more.

Dan Benjamin talks with Jesse Jacobs, founder of the Samovar tea lounges, about epiphany, refining experience, connecting to customers, time enhancement, dealing with fear, and tea as a vehicle to creating space in life for inspiration.

Mike Monteiro, co-founder of Mule Design, talks with Dan Benjamin about independent work, founding and running a studio, creativity, the true definition of design, and being infamous on Twitter.