Wiki’s should never run your projects. They are a starting point, perhaps an informal collection of ideas. But once you start committing tasks to them, and putting work onto them you’ve now tasked yourself with the role of constantly updating them to show progress when what you should be doing is delivering the work to get done. Once you start managing the tasks and their display, you’re no longer doing your best work.
Every product has a dashboard or reporting function that “shows” stuff. What your team is working on? What tickets are open? How close are you to releasing? What your traffic levels are at? What your sales look like for this quarter? They all show a valuable metric that you can then take action on and do something with. But they require you to look at them, to incorporate them into your decision making and for…
The journey is the memory we talk of. It’s the in-between moments of everything that comes together when it comes together, and how it comes together. It’s the small stories that we reflect on and remember without hesitation. It’s the best of us and when we get to the destination, all we talk about are the bumps and adventures that happened in the journey. Don’t miss out on the journey, it’s not worth forgetting.
The coin. The clicks. The referrals. The follow-up work. The learning. The exposure. The freedom. You could be doing it for all these reasons and more (or less) – the problem is we often don’t know why we are doing something and then when our motivations, our reasons for doing it change – we get stressed, angry, or mad that it’s not what we want. The problem is we don’t know our motivation and nothing…
You miss a deadline. You miss an event. The work you put in didn’t pan out. The code you wrote still doesn’t work. The rules are broken. The game is old. Time to get back, time to build something new, time to refocus and not forget why you got started here in the first place.