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The biggest danger you face right now is NOT technology or tools or trends or algorithms or personal branding buzzwords or social media buttons. Those aren’t the dangers.

I was out on a date the other night with my wife, and after a few particularly spicy servings of curry she left craving Juicy Fruit — you know, the bubble gum that I could had sworn was a victim of the new millennium. Weird, but whatever.

You're at a friendly gathering. A person you do not know approaches and makes conversation with you. Eventually the question is asked... here's what it's normally like for me. Person: So, what do you do?

Which of these would you rather do? Actually that last one might actually happen. Thanks NSA.

Hear how they made their first product along with lessons learned, what they wish they’d known and their best advice. The Fizzle Show dedicated the month of January to helping folks think better about making their first product by sharing the stories of others:

Panels can be insanely wasteful experiences. I spend about a thousand bucks to get a conference ticket, plane flight and hotel to show up in a room where there’s 4 people on stage sitting at a cheap table giving me what is, essentially, an NFL half time report.

You are a human. We think that’s your greatest business asset. Through your humanity you experience and intuit and empathize and create. That’s business, baby. Our humanity is a danger as well. We slip into vanity, insecurity, fear, isolation.

As I write this I’m literally in the bathroom at my hotel in Las Vegas enjoying a quiet moment before another night out with friends and conference goers. I’ll let you guess at the chair I’ve engaged.

Now that we’re coming to the end of the year everyone is doing their annual planning and review (us included). The biggest problem I’ve had doing these in the past is that I overcommit myself to what can actually be accomplished.