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Slackers

Slackers

著者： Jaime Solis & Jonathan Sasse
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Slackers is a podcast for leaders, builders, and creators who want to make work better—more productive, more human, and a lot less frustrating. Hosted by longtime media and technology insiders Jonathan Sasse and Jaime Solis, the show blends candid stories, sharp insights, and practical lessons from decades spent navigating corporate life and creative industries. This isn’t a rant about what’s broken or a step-by-step playbook. It’s a conversation about what actually works; the small wins, the hard lessons, and the patterns that make better teams, better ideas, and better outcomes possible. Each episode connects dots across leadership, strategy, creativity, and culture, helping you think more clearly about how work gets done, and how to do it better. We call it “Slackers” because the heavy lifting happens outside the show. So think of us as a weekly companion on your path to better work and a better way of working.2025 Jaime Solis & Jonathan Sasse | All Rights Reserved. マネジメント マネジメント・リーダーシップ リーダーシップ 個人的成功 経済学 自己啓発
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  • Doing Things Other People Don't Do: Building 5ive Tool Baseball with Jared Eichelberger

    Doing Things Other People Don't Do: Building 5ive Tool Baseball with Jared Eichelberger
    2026/07/14
    We wrapped 20 episodes. And the feedback that kept coming back wasn’t “give us more frameworks.”It was: “What does this actually look like when I’m sitting at my desk, trying to figure out what to do next?”That question is what Season 2 is all about. Consider this bonus episode a preview: real founders, real operators, and the actual guts of what they’re building. In this episode of Slackers, Jaime Solis and Jonathan Sasse roll up their sleeves with Jared Eichelberger — former professional pitcher in the Mets and Mariners organizations, son of MLB pitcher Juan Eichelberger, and founder of 5ive Tool Baseball Academy, San Diego’s premier youth baseball training organization. Twenty years in, Jared runs a real operation: dozens of coaches, roughly 40 league partnerships, camps from San Diego to Scottsdale to Chicago to Austria, and a business at a genuine inflection point. Key themes include: “Carry your own bag” — why life skills taught in a hurry are the real productUniformity as trust-building: how looking the part became a brand systemEvery yes is a no: the deliberate decision to serve rec leagues, not travel ballFrom 80 lessons a week to a team that runs without you — breaking the founder bottleneckThe ownership flywheel: what happens when coaches feel empowered to improve the businessEars open for opportunity: how one parent conversation became the Scottsdale expansionRadical financial transparency — why Jared tells his team exactly what he pays himselfExpensive hobby or business? Tracking every event against the P&LManagement Mondays, top-three task lists, and auditing where your energy actually goesWhy strategic empathy — knowing your customer’s schedule better than they do — is a business asset Jared’s story runs from a single pitching clinic at his high school alma mater to a half-million-dollar operation built almost entirely on organic reach, league relationships, and a 1.5-million-view video about how to size a bat. Along the way he unpacks the systems that made scale possible — from Google Voice and a wall calendar to 41 managed schedules — and the harder work of finding people who share the vision and giving them real ownership of it. Consider this a preview of many insights we unpack in Season 2: a founder who talks for nearly two hours and barely mentions the business — because the culture, the customers, and the craft are the business. The things Jared over-indexes on are the hardest things for any organization to build. He just built them first. Season 2 is coming: more builders, more operators, more behind-the-curtain conversations — in real time, with real stakes. This is what better work looks like up close. –––The Slackers Podcast is produced by Jaime Solis and Jonathan Sasse.Audio production by Stephen Kallao.Cover art by Jonathan Sasse Connect with the Hosts 🎙️ Jonathan Sasse — Chief Strategy Officer and executive advisor.🔗 Connect on LinkedIn · Forbes Communication Council 🎙️ Jaime Solis — Music & Media executive, strategist, and creator of the Red Threads newsletter.🔗 LinkedIn | Newsletter | Website📱 Social: Instagram · Threads · LinkedIn We want to hear from you!🤔 Do you have a question you'd love to ask us, or a topic you think we should dive into on the show? You can leave us a voice message right here! Thanks for listening!If you enjoyed this episode, please follow or subscribe on your favorite podcast app—and leave a quick rating or review. It helps new listeners find the show.
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    1 時間 46 分
  • Calling All Builders: Real AI Use with Keegen Knapp

    Calling All Builders: Real AI Use with Keegen Knapp
    2026/03/17
    Everyone has dabbled. But what does it actually look like when someone who builds things for a living sits down with AI tools every day and puts them to real work? Not the worldview conversation. Not the hype. The actual workflow. The shortcuts. The moment you go, "Oh my god. That completely changed how I work." In this episode of Slackers, Jaime Solis and Jonathan Sasse bring in Keegen Knapp — senior strategist, product builder, and hands-on AI practitioner — for the show’s most tactical conversation to date. Keegen has been building AI products with AI, running multi-agent loops, and rethinking what a working knowledge base looks like at the project level. This one is for the builders. Key themes include: Why Cursor is more than a code editor — and how non-developers can use it for strategy workHow to build a working knowledge base using local folders, Markdown files, and context controlThe competitive intelligence workflow: building an agent that scrapes, synthesizes, and stores dailySynthesized executive teams and product advisory councils as AI personas that actively shape your buildThe Ralph Loops framework: how to run autonomous refinement cycles with human checkpointsWhy GitHub is becoming the new LinkedIn — and what that means for how we signal our valueThe difference between curiosity-driven use and shortcut-seeking — and why it mattersWhat a personal AI operating system looks like and why it’s closer than most people thinkThe “spoons” framework: how creation and discovery give energy rather than drain it Keegen walks through a concrete example — a cycling apparel startup — to show exactly how a small team would set up a shared repository, build a competitive intelligence agent, and start generating research in the background without ongoing manual effort. The workflow is more accessible than it sounds. The real barrier, as the conversation keeps returning to, is not technical fluency. It’s the willingness to be curious and to actually start. Jonathan frames the transition clearly: most people have been using AI as a super-powered search engine. The leap — to project-based context management, to building agents, to assembling virtual teams of expertise you don’t personally have — is closer than it looks. And for creatives especially, these tools don’t threaten the work. They finally give ideas somewhere to go. You don’t learn to ride a bike by reading about it. Pick a pet project. Try it one way. Abandon it. Try it a different way. The output will be completely different — and so will you. More from Keegen online: GitHubLinkedInGrindwell.ai (golf training w/AI project)Ralph Loops (learn about this new software engineer mindset) –––The Slackers Podcast is produced by Jaime Solis and Jonathan Sasse.Audio production by Stephen Kallao.Cover art by Jonathan Sasse Connect with the Hosts 🎙️ Jonathan Sasse — Chief Strategy Officer and executive advisor.🔗 Connect on LinkedIn · Forbes Communication Council 🎙️ Jaime Solis — Music & Media executive, strategist, and creator of the Red Threads newsletter.🔗 LinkedIn | Newsletter | Website📱 Social: Instagram · Threads · LinkedIn We want to hear from you!🤔 Do you have a question you'd love to ask us, or a topic you think we should dive into on the show? You can leave us a voice message right here! Thanks for listening!If you enjoyed this episode, please follow or subscribe on your favorite podcast app—and leave a quick rating or review. It helps new listeners find the show.
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    1 時間 14 分
  • The Domino's Effect

    The Domino's Effect
    2026/03/10

    Most companies define competition incorrectly.

    They build spreadsheets comparing themselves to the businesses in their category. Same product. Same industry. Same lane.

    But customers do not live inside your category.

    They compare every experience they have across their entire life.

    In this episode of Slackers, Jaime Solis and Jonathan Sasse explore the idea that modern competition is horizontal, not vertical. Your real competition is not the company that sells the same thing you do. It is the experience that trained your customer to expect something better.

    • A pizza tracker from Domino’s can reshape expectations for furniture delivery.
    • A seamless checkout flow from Amazon can change what customers expect from healthcare portals.
    • A well-designed Little League app can influence how someone judges enterprise software.

    Once customers experience transparency, speed, or simplicity somewhere else, they begin expecting it everywhere.

    The conversation also explores why traditional competitive analysis often misses the point. Strategy should not be limited to spreadsheets and industry comparisons. It should function as a listening device for understanding what customers are learning from the broader world of commerce.

    Key themes in this episode include:

    • Why industry-based competitive analysis can create blind spots
    • How customer expectations move horizontally across industries
    • The Domino’s Pizza Tracker example and its ripple effects on other businesses
    • Why benchmarking against the “low floor” of your competitors creates vulnerability
    • How the Kano model explains the drift from delight to table stakes
    • Why customer support teams must be part of strategic decision making

    The core lesson is simple.

    Customers compare you to the best experience they had today.

    Not the company that looks most like you.

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    The Slackers Podcast is produced by Jaime Solis and Jonathan Sasse.
    Audio production by Stephen Kallao.
    Cover art by Jonathan Sasse

    Connect with the Hosts

    🎙️ Jonathan Sasse — Chief Strategy Officer and executive advisor.
    🔗 Connect on LinkedIn · Forbes Communication Council

    🎙️ Jaime Solis — Music & Media executive, strategist, and creator of the Red Threads newsletter.
    🔗 LinkedIn | Newsletter | Website
    📱 Social: Instagram · Threads · LinkedIn

    We want to hear from you!
    🤔 Do you have a question you'd love to ask us, or a topic you think we should dive into on the show? You can leave us a voice message right here!

    Thanks for listening!
    If you enjoyed this episode, please follow or subscribe on your favorite podcast app—and leave a quick rating or review. It helps new listeners find the show.
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    54 分
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