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…
When you don’t know what you’re doing, I mean, quite honestly, you have no idea what you’re doing and you’re doing it for the first time – you have no idea what will happen when something goes wrong. “I didn’t realize – EVERYTHING – was using that component I was working on and now everything is down” (Never happens). But the more first times you go through, the more you think on your actions, the…
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…
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…
No one sets out to make something “Good Enough.” When asked for our best work we never said “I’ll make it Good Enough.” Work gets to “Good Enough” when we lose energy in what we’re doing – maybe we’re tired, frustrated, or even bored with what we’re doing – so “Good Enough” becomes the yardstick for what we want to deliver. But we’re giving up when we do this, we’re lowering the bar and dropping…