HeyJaredToo long for a call
Too Long For A Call is real conversation between three best friends - Yana, Kasper, and Stefan. They've co-founded two tech companies together, been best friends for close to two decades, and live in two different countries - in Bulgaria/ Europe and the US.
- Indexed videos, last 90 days
- 11
- Latest publication
- Sep 9, 2026
- Audience
- ~29 subscribers
- Earliest in this view
- Aug 12, 2026
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#19 - My Best Friend Risks His Life Every Weekend. I Asked Him Why... (opens the original)
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Yana and Stefan chase a simple question until it stops being simple: why doesn't "being alive" feel like enough? It starts with a framework from the #thediaryofaceo podcast — lifespan → healthspan → energy span, maxing out your high-performance years instead of just surviving them. From there it turns into everything underneath: the productivity trap, whether "achievement" is just conditioning, a martial arts moment where Yana loses a simple move the second her mind wanders, Eastern philosophy o
Is Social Media The Smoking Of This Generation? (opens the original)
Can we get modern kids to love reading books? (opens the original)
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The intro to custom books
#18 - Our Best Product Failed. Our Worst Competitor Succeeded. Here's What We Are Doing Next 🥁 (opens the original)
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Stefan and Yana reflect on a decade of building companies together. In this episode, we look back at everything from Swipes (our first app that hit 1M users and was top-rated on iOS for four years) to Question Base (an AI agent for Slack we started building before ChatGPT existed). We break down what we got right, what we got wrong, and the patterns we've learned to recognize. Topics covered: Why our collaboration tool without deadlines backfired The difference between building a good product an
#17 - Tired of self-improving but also can't stop doing it, Foods & toys from the 90s, #OnlyFans? (opens the original)
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We start with an energy audit exercise we promised last week — and immediately fail to follow through. That kicks off an honest conversation about self-improvement fatigue and whether all the optimization advice is doing more harm than good. Then we spiral into a deeply nostalgic trip through our Bulgarian 90s childhood — shady microwave sandwiches, chocolate waffles for breakfast, the cookie hustle with grandma, Pokémon chips, and Lego catalogs we could only dream over. From there: raising kids
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