The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv

"Lunch gets delivered to the office every day at noon. We asked our former office manager to order lunch every day, because I didn't want to worry about it. I just wanted food to show up. He did it for a year before starting his own business, which now provides this service for us and for other start-ups in the area, too."<p>Anyone have the name of this service?

<i>My job is to help other people do their jobs well.</i><p>straight from the Spolsky school of management<p><a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/DevelopmentAbstraction.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/DevelopmentAbstractio...</a>

Any idea which book called "Influence" Justin was talking about? Looks like there is more than one: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&#38;field-keywords=influence&#38;x=0&#38;y=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...</a>.

I phone interviewed with Justin.tv soon after they launched. A good chunk of the interview was asking me how I would use grep to solve various problems. It was an interesting interview. I liked that they were clearly looking for people that can get stuff done and didn't want to BS around about it.

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This article describes the difference between "a job" and "being paid to do what you love". This doesn't mean you have to start your own company. It means you need to find a team you enjoy working with where you get to do things each day you where you get to do your best.<p>For work/life balance, it is about priorities and setting clear expectations with your significant other. If you love working a lot and start dating don't fake a shorter work week, don't fake that you'll make it home every night for dinner at 5pm. For some people, it will be a deal breaker, and for others they'll appreciate the time you do spend together because during that time you'll be happy, fulfilled and fun to be around.<p>Would you rather have a SO that comes home every night at 5PM and does nothing but complain about how horrible their day was until 9PM or that needs 4 hours to decompress from work or would you rather have somebody that comes home at 9PM happy to see you with a positive attitude?

Is anyone aware of the long-term effects of taking melatonin before you go to bed every night? Just curious, maybe worth a try?

Justin, how do you help the engineers on their problems if you say yourself that you're not that much of a programmer?

7am - 11pm? So do you have make a lot of sacrifices with your personal life? Like girlfriend, wife, family?<p>Also, why did you decide to act on the whole "professionalism" feedback? Did you just thought it would be fun, or did you notice it was affecting the company?<p>I envy your drive. Amazing really.

Glad to see some love for Iain M. Banks. Easily my favorite scifi author at the moment.

Justin TV in May 2007: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ojbyrne/505415469/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/ojbyrne/505415469/</a><p>I remember it being a little more informal than the Inc picture suggests, but look - dress shirt.

Justin wears a suit now?

The folks in the picture don't look terribly happy to be following him around. The guy in the black jacket looks damn near depressed.<p>That said, I'm sure it's just the picture. I actually like walking meetings most of the time. And I find Justin's attitude inspiring.

I thought they chose <i>Just In TV</i> because streaming content is always just in, but it awkwardly sounded like someone's name. Now it's awkward for a different reason: what does that guy's name have to do with streaming internet TV?