August 30, 2024
Simplified Explanations
If you can’t explain it simply. You can’t explain it. If it’s complicated, simplify it, get it down to the base problem, put the symptoms aside and focus on the core of what you are doing.
Articles for category: Initiative
August 27, 2024
Give them No Excuses
If they don’t like your ideas, your implementation, what you bring to the table. Don’t give them any excuses. Implement it all. It’s hard to ignore the evidence when it’s working right in front of you.
August 24, 2024
What Timers Really do
Timers are great, they give you a unit of time to get work done, and then you break. You zone in and you focus in on that work to be delivered and voila you get it done. It’s incredible that the productivity hack of our lifetime boils down to tomatoes and timers that give you a block of time to get work done (I have a few of my own and I use the Google timer at many a project). But here’s the real value in all these timers (and it’s not the break) – it’s when you go over.
August 22, 2024
Assuming you have No Ads
How would you generate revenue for your product? What’s the value it would deliver? How would you pay your employees? How would the company grow? If you have a great idea for an app and the money side ends with “Oh and we’ll sell ads” – you’re missing the most important part of what your product could be – the value it could create. Don’t end a great idea with ads (unless you’re an advertising company).
August 21, 2024
Gaining Traction
Ideas don’t grab people all at once. People all of a sudden just don’t get what you’re proposing – despite all the infinite possibilities that you ran through your head and all the great responses you’ve already built up. Traction takes time and oddly enough it doesn’t require you to go as fast as possible. Think of a vehicle going up a hill, do you floor it and go up full speed? Does that even work if you’re on a dirt road? It doesn’t, you drop a gear, build momentum, build traction, move forward, and then you get there. Traction