ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Welcome to Nobody Yet! I'm Eric, a software engineer in his 20s based in New York City. This is the realtime collection of my stories, reflections, and internal voices as I play with ideas, grow, and pursue a more meaningful life. Along the way, I speak with guests who are similarly writing out their own burgeoning stories.
Expect topics such as lessons learned, progress towards goals, shifts in perspectives, and much more...
The content of these episodes are formalized on my substack: lieric.substack.com
Expect topics such as lessons learned, progress towards goals, shifts in perspectives, and much more...
The content of these episodes are formalized on my substack: lieric.substack.com
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 13 days
Average audio length:
45 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
60 episodes
since June 21, 2020
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
I haven't uploaded in a month, but I swear I have a good reason !!! (the inaccurate excuse that I give myself)
The past month, I travelled to Palo Alto for a work trip with the goal of fleshing out the MVP product we're looking to launch and a presentation with the big dog.
Here are some lessons I'…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
When's the best time to set goals? Whenever you need to get it together. In this episode I go over some quarterly goals I'm looking to make progress in the next 3 months.
Recorded July 13, 2025
Reflections on a quiet long weekend where I did a little work, a little reading, a little writing, and a little working out. I also reflect on feeling fomo in the past weekend and the tradeoffs that lead up to this point.
Recorded on July 7
Among my favorite reframes is thinking of life like a stock:
- short term volatility is irrelevant to long term progress
- downturns feel catastrophic as life improves in absolute terms but has been experienced before in percentage terms
- life improves compound
Recorded June 23
The 3 things I'm optimizing for in my 20s is authenticity, agency, and conviction. I have the first two down pat. But what about conviction?
I talk about trying to build off conviction when being the lead in a new project in a new industry and an unlikely solution to balancing humbleness and confi…
How Do You Get Confidence When Starting Something New?
This is a question I'm currently asking myself as I take lead in a new project tackling a new industry.
Why do I always need evidence before I do new pursuits despite not having evidence in the first place? How do I build meaningful blind fai…
On this episode, I reflect on a conversation I had with a childhood friend and the feeling of being old at 25.
Why do we feel old all of a sudden? Why do we reminisce about the past? Why do we feel like we can't do much anymore?
Recorded on June 2.
Some jumbled thoughts on reframing when writing my Reframing Substack essay: https://www.nobody-yet.com/p/reframing
I'm back after locking in for a month with work. Turns out I just really miss podcasting and emptying my brain with structured thoughts.
In this episode, I talk about why I was gone for a month and my current obsession with reading biographies (one of the highest leverage things no one does).
Also…
In this episode, I review the last quarter of the new year and the previous temporary shift of what is valuable. I talk about the cynicism that comes with feelings of having low agency and cultivating a new approach to work: dispassion.
Recorded on March 28 @ 11pm
Some other stuff
More coherent th…
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