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You know that a big motivation behind MegaMaker is to push limits.

I want you to push your limits (in terms of what you can make this year).
I want to push my own limits (and try to make 100 things).
And I want to push the limits of what’s possible with a podcast.

Yesterday, I got this text message:

Text message from a listener

So much work goes into producing these shows. I ♥ that you folks enjoy them, and want to help support them.

Now we’re trying something new

As we gear up for Season 2 (on April 1st), I wanted to try something that’s never been done before.

A crowdfunding campaign for podcast episodes →

Right now, every podcast (Gimlet, Relay, WTF) is looking for alternatives to ad supported models.
What if we pioneered a new way of doing things?
Let’s let listeners & sponsors choose the topics for Season 2, and actively participate in what projects get made.

Here’s an example of a few of the project ideas that can be sponsored:

Image: Secret Makers, Mystery Box, and an app called Upstarter

If you’ve been itching to support the show, now’s the time!

You can pledge as little as $5. I also just opened up 16 new spots in the Secret Makers Society (if you want one, act quick – the last ones went really fast).

I’m getting excited about Season 2 (I just submitted new show art to iTunes). Can’t wait to get back behind the microphone!

StormtrooperCheers,
Justin Jackson
@mijustin

PS: One of the things I did during my podcasting break was write. You can read the MegaMaker magazine on Medium.

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Listen to episode 15!

Ep15 of MegaMaker

This is the last episode for Season 1. The first episode of Season 2 will be April 1st, 2016.

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The pressure to be creative and successful is exhausting.

Marcella is offering an awesome service called: Mindfulness for Makers

Mindfulness for Makers

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Just got my first submission to the Higher than Hobbits project (tldr: we’re creating the world’s first open source band).

Thanks to Ross M. from Vokal Anti for providing this bass line! Please download it, make a song from it, and submit it!

 

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Still figuring out what to do for episode 14 of MegaMaker.

Here’s my progress on making 100 things this year:

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I asked the secret SMS list what they wanted the title of their biography to be. Here’s what they said:

  • Fat legs in skinny jeans
  • It’s never too late.
  • Crazy Wisdom
  • Not Steve
  • Live like the tortoise, work like the hare
  • Dream big and make things
  • Shenanigans
  • Well done
  • Daniel of All Trades
  • Know It All, And Know Nothing
  • Living and learning
  • Harvesting Chaos: How One Man Finds Energy and Inspiration in
  • a Life of Distraction
  • I don’t get to name my Biography, that is the authors choosing.
  • Abstraction Among the Quotidian
  • The Jolly Genius
  • Defining the Problem: Before finding a solution.
  • In Search of Brain Freeze
  • Working with integrity.
  • In for the long game
  • Bearded Glory: A story of hair, sweat and success
  • Turning Chaos into Order: an ADHD Nerd’s Journey.
  • The Challenge of Something Greater
  • My Best! (And Other Stuff)
  • YODO
  • Breaking the status quo
  • Unexpected
  • That’s So Jonny
  • Made with Love: How one man found fulfillment in his career and family life
  • Behind the scenes
  • Making stuff for fun and profit, life of software developer
  • A lot of dry powder
  • The Life Of Pablo
  • Seen some things… done some things
  • Never stop exploring
  • Jacob Norton
  • The worthwhile life of a humble traveler
  • Master of Muppets
  • Almost Figured it Out
  • Building Community
  • MY BEST (AND NOT SO GOOD)
  • I don’t think I would want a biography. Haha
  • Thankful life of this guy
  • A story of one person’s rise to the middle.
  • Is That All There Is?
  • One Fun Son
  • Daring to be different
  • Desire
  • Enigma
  • Reading between the lines
  • Professional Amateur
  • It’s not rocket science; even when it is
  • The flippancy of clouds
  • Determined
  • Stumbling, Falling, Getting Back Up Every Single Day
  • The joys and tortures of the beautiful life of an amateur polymath.
  • Dude.

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Here’s what Scott is seeing right now in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, CA:

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Here’s what Mark is seeing right now in At the office this morning:

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Here’s what RJ is seeing right now in The tiny window in the break room at work:

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Here’s what Jeff is seeing right now in In my windowless office… ?:

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Here’s what Kevin is seeing right now in Cafe is on Santa Monica Blvd, Beverly Hills:

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Here’s what M. is seeing right now in San Francisco:

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Here’s what Mike is seeing right now in The frozen tundra I call home:

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Here’s what Megan is seeing right now in Denver. At lunch at Marg’s Taco Bistro downtown.:

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