Go Get Great

This is a meandering personal chat about home renovation with virtually no transferable business insight for a B2B operator; the few near-useful nuggets (order of operations when living in a renovation) are buried in domestic minutiae about paint colors and flooring.

“honestly, it feels like we spend 90% of our time figuring out what we're going to do and 10% of our time doing it”

“my best advice for this would be you obviously have to get like all your plumbing, like all the stuff in the walls after you've ripped them out. But then I would go and finish entire rooms one by one”

There's no fresh business thinking; the only mildly contrarian observation is that renovation TV shows hide problems, which is a common take, and it's framed for entertainment not insight.

“I feel like a lot of like HGTV stuff... they don't show you it going wrong”

“they romanticize it. They make it look so easy, anyone can do it. Like, bitch, please”

The 'guest' is the host's live-in partner who does the manual renovation work; he is not a business operator and has no relevant B2B expertise or scale-level experience.

“Today I am joined by my partner Grayson. I have brought my live-in podcast guest back today”

“he's the one that does 99% of the work and, uh, he's been very absent because he doesn't have time to be on social media”

To its credit, the episode contains concrete numbers—budget figures, plumbing costs, tool prices—but they are all home-renovation specifics with no business relevance or named companies beyond retailers.

“we are over $100,000 already and we're not done”

“the plumbing was a little over $10,000 for us to do”

The host uses ChatGPT-generated prompts and asks reasonable open questions, but it's an unchallenged, rambling domestic conversation between partners with frequent tangents and technical interruptions rather than probing interviewing.

“I asked ChatGPT to give us a few, uh, topic ideas”

“what renovation decision caused the most stress for us?”