Life happens to us.
You grow up, start exerting your independence, push away from your parents and leap into the big world. And it’s friggin big and overwhelming. So you cling to defined paths.
Maybe you go to college, maybe you take a job.
You unintentionally follow the guideposts and examples around you, trying to get a grasp on “life”… Hopefully you end up somewhere good.
But what if you lived intentionally? Who made those guideposts anyway? What if there’s a better fit somewhere else?
In this episode we touch on Brecht’s family’s plan to live intentionally, discover alternatives, and pick from a broader palette of possibilities. Also Scott talks about his recent experience in Brennan Dunn’s Consultancy Masterclass.
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- Brennan Dunn’s Consultancy Masterclass
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Really enjoyed the episode!
Awesome, thanks X!
Hi, this is a question for Scott. Sorry if this comes across as overly accusatory, we’ve got an ill 4 year old and were woken up _a lot_ last night, so this may not come out quite as nicely as it should…
Do you have a plan for moving Blackfin towards products / productised consulting? You’ve been there a while now and although the running-around-like-a-headless-chicken phase seems to be coming to an end (I hope, although it’s nice to hear someone else going through the experiences, I’m an ex-small web agency developer who’s now a freelancer) it feels from the outside that you’re trying to steer the company to more efficiency, but are perhaps now caught up solely in trying to improve it as an agency rather than turn it in to something else.
I’m pretty sure you’ve said on previous episodes that you and the chap who started the company want to move it more to products / prod. cons. in the long term. Do you think turning the company in to a better consultancy and finding better customers is going to help that, or are you going to get caught in the trap of always needing to find customers for a service business, when really you’d be better off trying to follow the products route?
I think I’m asking this because, as a freelancer, I find it’s very difficult to give sustained effort to products as I get caught back in to having to do service work to pay the bills. This is especially made worse by child-induced tiredness, which is one the reasons I enjoy your podcast with Brecht a lot – it seems rather more real world to me than a lot of startup/bootstrapping ‘casts do. I’m not sure if you’re making headway in the not-just-being-a-service-agency side of things, or whether that’s just not something that comes up in the podcast because you have to sort out the agency side of things to make it more sustainable first.
It’s an awkward situation that you’re in – you need to make the agency more efficient, that’s what you’re there to do, but also if the agency becomes more efficient, you can collectively handle more work, then bam, you’re caught in the services trap where you never have quite enough time to move out of it to your own products.
Apologies if this is a little rambling.
Just a follow up to say: Thanks for answering my questions thoroughly in episode 70!
Calories in / Calories out is a flawed paradigm, stop trying to calculate that stuff. That was created by the food and fitness industry to sell more of their products. There are all kinds of complicated biochemistry going on, much of which we don’t fully understand. The simple thing is that you should eat good, real food and less fake man made food like products. Good movie just came out about the problems with processed sugar and artificial sweeteners, called Fed Up rent for $5 on Amazon.