The Aboard Podcast

Rich and Paul, the co-founders of Aboard (a software product), discuss shipping software. They give advice to better ship products within time estimates. They also provide tips and tricks for better product management.

In this episode Rich and Paul discuss productivity tips and tricks. Their best bet is deadlines. They go into productivity softwares as tools of empowerment. They inform you on what the tools offer and how to make the most out of them.

Leadership sometimes means killing the project. Rich and Paul discuss the importance of cutting your losses short on a failing project. To make amends with failure, and keep an open mind, to compromise and pivot when needed.

After COVID-19 and the internet people seem to be less connected. In this episode Rich and Paul discuss how the internet is designed to perpetually split people into different parties and views. They offer advice for people to care less, in order to foster better, more holistic human connections.

In this episode Rich and Paul who have done hundreds of interviews give advice for both interviewees and interviewers. They help them navigate interviews while still maintaining that human connection throughout.

Mailbag questions are pouring in for Rich and Paul. For this episode - why isn't Paul more excited about AI? Rich and Paul discuss the evolution and history of AI. And how it is the medium updates that people are getting infatuated with rather than the content of it.

Rich and Paul discuss the importance of innovation groups within big companies in order to stay relevant, compete and thrive against upstarts. They highlight the struggle of navigating resources within big organizations - these orgs have a hard time processing their money at such a large scale, and it is difficult for them to have new ideas surface within them. A key to reach innovation within them is their leadership and founders mentality. Tune in to this thought provoking conversation and for advice.

Rich and Paul are on a quest to help Jim offer advice to his managers. They help Jim navigate giving unsolicited advice up the hierarchy. Highlighting the fact that this interaction defines the environment that one is in, whether it revolves around politics or the business itself.

In this episode Rich and Paul share the lessons they learned about success and failure when it comes to your visions. They highlight the need to think small rather than big, and to not be too stubborn. In the end there is no shortcut to reach your goals, and it's the tiring journey that makes it all worth it.

People want validation or shortcuts when it comes to advice. However, there is no magic source for advice. Our advice? You should be wary of advice. Go out there ask multiple people for advice and then synthesize them. And the best advice is the one you never had to ask for - feedback!