Embracing Fear of Criticism and Making Changes

Jack Ellis is the co-founder of Fathom Analytics, a privacy-first Google Analytics alternative. Jack also teaches an online course on Laravel, a popular PHP framework, and hosts his own podcast, Above Board, where he discusses running an indie and bootstrapped software company.

Jack and I discuss:

• How he runs his company people-first
• What happens when you judge your employees on their work, rather than on other measures
• Lightweight ways of collaborating with a small team
• The importance of online privacy and how his company enables that
• Why running a lifestyle business is just the best
• Overcoming analysis paralysis
• The big downside of working remotely—or is it even a downside?
• Why I don’t give specific advice for people with ADHD (or other conditions)

And much more. Enjoy the show!

Find Jack:

• JackEllis.me
• Fathom Analytics, privacy-focused website analytics
• Serverless Laravel, Jack’s course for Laravel developers
• Above Board, the Fathom Analytics podcast, which Jack co-hosts

Also mentioned:

• Things 3, my favorite task manager
• Linear, a collaborative software development app
• Tuple, a remote pair programming app