Late Nights with Trav and Los
Best friends, Trav & Los, talk late into the night, exploring new ideas for creative professionals. They argue over concepts, share secrets, and interview their industry heroes.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 140
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2021
The Five Fears That I Have
5 fears I have
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Everyone will think I’m a fraud
Impostor syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to internalize their accomplishments. Despite external evidence of their co…
How We Really Create
How to get better at making things, or HOW WE REALLY CREATE!
Have you ever read something or heard someone say something so wonderful and powerful that your heart starts beating almost right out of y…
The loss of thought
#The loss of thought
Most of us have problems or ideas that we want to solve or elaborate on and one of the hardest parts of these problems and ideas is finding the time to think about them. Have you…
Jonathan Cutrell of Developer Tea: Interview
Questions we discuss
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How long have you been doing DevTea?
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What is the elevator pitch of DevTea?
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why did you start?
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What is the most popular episode about?
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What is your favorite episode abou…
How To Enjoy Yourself At A Conference
How to enjoy yourself at a conference
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Focus on the people you meet.
- the most valuable part of the conference is in the hallways between sessions.
- Not your heroes
- people looking at their phones / g…
How To Write An Email That Gets Noticed
Travis tell Los how to write an email. Sounds basic, but you'd be surprised. You should listen.
How to write an email that gets noticed.
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Write a concise, quickly actionable subject line.
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Quickly …
Thoughts On The New Google Logo
SPECIAL EDITION: Trav and Los look at the reactions to Google's new logo, and then give their own.
Get stuff done - developing this one skill
Los talks about a powerful skill anyone can obtain without a mentor or teacher.
Stop limiting yourself
In this episode Trav and Los talk to you about not limiting yourself and what you can do to expand you capacities.
Stop Limiting yourself! Medium article referenced: https://medium.com/life-learning/…
Share To Win!
Share To Win!
Why You should be a publisher
I’ve talked about why you should be a publisher before. — travandlos.com/18
What should you share?
Scoop up the scraps of your work and spend a few minutes…
The Full Process
The Full Process
Eddy said that the whole time He was thinking “Process” — as in big company bureaucracy and red tape. It's not about that. I want to talk about the Creative Process.
Why have a proce…
Speak so people want to listen to you
In this episode Trav and Los talk about what you can do, such that, people will want to listen to you.
Empty your cup, empty your mind.
Trav and Los have a late night chat about how we are beginners, amateurs, and experts all at the same time.
We refer to this medium article on Shuhari: https://medium.com/designing-atlassian/shuhari-…
Full-Process Designer
Full-Process Designer
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A full-process designer concerns themself with the entire creative process (Reflect -> Make -> Observe -> Repeat)
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A full-process designer does not let the excitement of star…
Sell Your Work, Sell Yourself
Question: How are you a salesman?
Mark Landis
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There is a Documentary about him on Netflix, it’s called “Art & Craft” — he’s one of the most successful art forgers. It’s quite amazing he would recre…
How to have a better conversation with anyone
In this episode we remove a word from our vernacular and rethink our habitual sentence structures for better conversations.
TL:DL;
- Remove "Just" and structure your sentences in a "yes, and..." forma…
Steal a College Education
Learn how to steal a college education. Hack that education! If you have access to the internet, then you have access to all the knowledge you need. What is hard about learning is not knowing what yo…
Burn Out - What it is, and how to avoid and overcome it.
Travs Thesis
Burn out happens when you don't believe in what you are doing.
Avoid Burnout
Los says that if you want to avoid burn out, you should not burn out.
Overcome Burnout
Trav says that if you…
Change Will Lead To Insight
"Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change." — Milton Erekson
- Los sees this as a call to change your perspective and has found that moving your feet helps.
- Trav's t…
Seek first to understand the why?
Before starting any project or sharing any work, first seek to understand the why? not the what.
In this episode we talk to you about why it's important to understand the why behind anything you are …