I did a Mixergy interview so bad they didn't even release it

Well, that was quite something.<p>&gt; <i>The funny thing here is that I&#x27;m 100% aware that our stories are wrong. Our own stories, doubly so. We back-fit narratives. Our minds rewrite what we remember ourselves thinking at the time.</i><p>What are some ways to break out of this mode, and look back upon the timeline for what it was? robfitz wrote &#x27;The Mom Test&#x27;, so they must know!?<p>&gt; <i>So our stories are wrong. But they still matter.</i><p>I guess cognitive dissonance is how most of us are keeping our world-view intact. Especially when you realise that nothing really matters in the grand scheme of things [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube-nocookie.com&#x2F;embed&#x2F;4iC9Qi3y9q8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube-nocookie.com&#x2F;embed&#x2F;4iC9Qi3y9q8</a>

By the sounds of it, this happened before Andrew started doing &quot;pre-interviews&quot;. Now he has one of his team members speak to the person to suss out their story. Andrew just just wrote a book about his interview process – it&#x27;s called Stop Asking Questions, and I thoroughly recommend it. He shows you how to get interesting material from people, rather than platitudes like: &quot;business is a marathon, not a sprint&quot;.

I take full responsibility for not being able to tell the story well back then.<p>It’s my responsibility more than it is Rob’s.<p>It was January 2012. I was still learning how to coach the story out of my interviewees. I’ve done a lot of personal work over the last decade to get better and better at that.<p>I appreciate that Rob trusted me with such a vulnerable story back then. Rob, if you’re reading this thank you.

I was listening to a lot of Mixergy some 10 years ago and I really enjoyed it but for some reason stopped. I was looking for something to listen to couple weeks ago and after spending some 20 minutes to remember the name &quot;Mixery&quot; I listened to couple of his latest podcasts. It feels so different now. I think the general attitude of Andrew towards his guests has changed a lot. He is so pushy now and it feels like the episodes are more about him, rather than the story of the guest.

My own narrative and the accuracy or correctness of it was something that I thought about frequently. Then I had a child. It really helped put my experiences and my actions into context. I now find myself thinking more about the narrative of my parents, and previous generations in general. I feel like I give myself and my parents a lot more grace than I used to.

Rob - if you&#x27;re listening, I enjoyed reading this but I don&#x27;t know who you are and nothing on your website neatly summarizes that.<p>Google finds several people with similar names. I presume you&#x27;re a tech entrepreuner so I guess this is you: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crunchbase.com&#x2F;person&#x2F;rob-fitzpatrick" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crunchbase.com&#x2F;person&#x2F;rob-fitzpatrick</a><p>Which leads me to wonder what Dexio is but the Crunchbase link leads to an domain squatter and according to Google it&#x27;s a Pokemon. :-)<p>EDIT - your twitter bio was more useful. I missed that initially. Still have no idea what Dexio is.

And asking for a friend - how did you fix those guts of yours?

I sometimes struggle to condense my thoughts while speaking, which can make for some uninteresting long-winded stories if I’m not careful.<p>But it does get better with deliberate practice. Knowing the issue is half the battle.<p>To be candid, even this blog post was on the wordy side. I understand where the author was trying to go with the piece by the end, but it might have been more engaging if reduced to half the length or less. Being concise is important for making specific points.

I would love for the author to delve more into what made the interview so bad, with specific examples.

As a sailboat owner I really want to hear the story of how you sank the boat...

@robfitz, not related to the content as I couldn&#x27;t get to that on Firefox 95<p>Opening the website returns:<p>NS_ERROR_NET_INADEQUATE_SECURITY<p>By a cursory glance, it looks like some misconfiguration (supporting HTTP&#x2F;2, but no presenting TLS1.2 at the same time .. even that it looks available).<p>SSL Labs results may help you diagnose [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ssllabs.com&#x2F;ssltest&#x2F;analyze.html?d=www.robfitz.com&amp;s=2606%3a4700%3a0%3a0%3a0%3a0%3a6812%3a162a&amp;hideResults=on&amp;latest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ssllabs.com&#x2F;ssltest&#x2F;analyze.html?d=www.robfitz.c...</a>

Slight side note, I am surprised how Mixergy&#x2F;Andrew has almost zero social media presence. There are no social icons on their site and there is no engagement with fans on Twitter (or anywhere else?).<p>I wonder why this is.

Why does mixergy have a photo of Gary Vaynerchuk on the home page.

Interesting - is this a personal site built on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;circle.so" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;circle.so</a>?

Critique about the writing: BuzzFeed&#x2F;Twitter-style 1 sentence per paragraph made me stop reading after the 2nd paragraph.

Curious, what boat model is that?

Aw, fuck. Now I want a boat.

I googled Mixergy and found out about a pretty interesting smart hot water tank.<p>Edit: being downvoted for a silly joke, I get it, but it&#x27;s true. That Mixergy is placed way better than the startuppers&#x27; little bubble interview website.