98: John fires himself
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What sparked the conversation at the start of the episode?
John Let's go next. Hello, how are you? Viva Espanyol. You're on the wrong microphone. No, no, no, no. Come on.
It says it says no, you're fine now.
It says It says I'm here.
Yeah, and it's great to have you.
Uh well It's great to have you, John. Thanks for uh welcome Welcome back to Fits and Starts.
Bing Bong.
Um How you doing? You know, last week we I didn't think we slandered Boston too bad. Um Yeah, but it got passed around. They got passed around. We got a lot of notes but from last week. Uh I think we we we we really uh we ruffled some feathers. We yeah. Um but uh uh you know, friend of the show Jason Beggs, he likes to pretend like he's the sort of the stoic No, he's a shitster is what he is. He's he's a drama queen. He goes he gets up there, he starts passing stuff around. And he goes, Hey, uh, Tom You're a Boston guy. You're not gonna believe what they said about Boston.
Get out of here. Yeah, he's trying to he's trying to get us hemmed up.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right in time for us to target him up.
Right in time for us to go to Boston and and see all of our good friends up there. Yeah. See Tom. Yeah, and see Tom. But Tom loves us, so yeah. No harm, no foul.
No no harm, no foul. Yeah. Nice try though, Jason.
Yeah. Nice try trying to drive a wedge between us and our good friend Tom.
Yeah. Good luck, brother. Um, what's new? What's going on? Oh, you know, we're just chilling, we're hanging out. Uh it's beautiful day. Is is most of the smog gone for you?
Yeah, you know, I think it's a little bit of a f like f uh frog frog boiling situation, um, because uh it was like all the frogs are dead now. Yeah, that's right. Uh, they got boiled to death in in uh fog. Smog. The uh the f the first day it was like noticeably bad. And then every day after that it was a little bit better. But it basically like it being a little bit better and me having already acclimated, it felt like it was completely gone. You know? Um, but then my sister was travelling and she like left and wasn't here for the beginning of it and then came here the tail end, wow, it's already over phase. And she was like, Oh, the air is terrible here. I was like, Oh, maybe we all just got uh maybe we all just got acclimated.
Yeah. Oh I I know I told you about this. Did we talk about uh the weird act of God on the show the other day? I we texted about it. I don't think we talked about it on here. This is the craziest thing I've ever seen. That video was insane. It so it rained the other weekend for like thirty five minutes. Yeah. And it was one of those rains where you're like you're inside and you're like, Whoa, it's raining hard. This is this is the This is this is the end. Yeah, but you look out and you're like, wow, that it's really coming down out there, huh? Yeah, yeah.
It was like that we got it we gotta hit it with it too. It was crazy.
Yeah, like wow, big rain. Yeah. And then like half an hour later, I'm on Instagram and I'm seeing video of people in Philly walking around a park where enormous trees have been snapped in half at the trunk. Huge old trees. Big trees. Big boys. Uh snapped in half at the trunk. And I'm like, wait, Wharton Square Park, that's like five blocks from my house. Don't be Creepy. And so I wander on down to Wharton Square Park and I'm walking around and it is like Armageddon. Yeah. Apparently, what happened is what they call a micro burst. A micro burst led to a micro tornado setting down in Wharton Square Park, which is a park in the middle of South Philly, where it proceeded to rip like five old growth ass, like multi-hundred year old trees in half at the trunk.
and just toss them all over the place willy nilly. And somehow none of them hit a house. Uh several of them fell across streets. Insane. And like a branch is like eight inches from a window or whatever. But like none of them hit a house. Couple of cars got squished, whatever. We don't need more Ford Focuses. Um and uh but yeah, no one got hurt, nobody's house got damaged. Just like this one park just got like completely annihilated.
It's crazy. It's so crazy. Um uh I'm looking up right now.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What sparked the conversation at the start of the episode?
0:21–5:05
2
How did the unexpected micro‑burst in South Philly affect the hosts?
5:05–10:29
3
Why did the hosts decide to rethink their business model in 2026?
10:29–18:19
4
How are AI tools being framed as a power‑tool for product work?
18:19–25:54
5
What lessons did the hosts learn about job searching and referrals?
25:54–33:26
6
How did the interview process at Datadog unfold and what stood out?
33:26–41:09
7
What are the hosts’ priorities when choosing their next career move?
41:09–47:22
8
Where does this episode leave the podcast and the hosts’ future plans?
47:22–56:29