Podbit · My First Million
Most people have vacations and normal work — but nothing in between for when you want to truly lock in. Shaan's reverse vacation is a professional penitentiary: Adidas tracksuit, cold showers, slop food, David Goggins on the speaker, and a goal to crush. It's the Ironman for workaholics.
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The episode opens with Shaan Puri explaining the entire premise of Drunk Ideas in cheerful, self-aware fashion: he has a lot of business ideas that are, frankly, terrible. Rather than present them as genuine pitches and risk looking dumb, the Drunk Ideas format gives him cover — bad ideas are expected and forgiven. He reveals he keeps a dedicated Slack thread tagged 'Drunk Ideas' so he can search it when the time comes, a system he jokes is probably in Atomic Habits. Producer Arie Desormeaux gets pulled into the episode after she pitched an idea too compelling to leave off-air, instantly graduating from behind-the-scenes crew member to co-host. The tone is set: half-baked, silly, but with a nugget of genuine insight in every pitch.
Shaan pitched a 'reverse vacation' — a lock-in productivity camp where participants wear Adidas tracksuits, eat slop, take cold showers, and grind toward a goal, the work equivalent of an Ironman.
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