We’re always feeling like we need more time to get things done.
- If I only have another hour I’d get to the gym.
- If I had another 10 minutes I’d get to inbox zero.
- If I had another day I could catch up to my to do list.
Bullshit.
It’s not an issue of time, it’s priorities.
This week after Scott updates us all on the chaos of being over committed, Brecht maps out a couple ways in which he has become more productive with way less time.
Stuff:
- Notes from Harry Hollander’s talk at Micronconf 2014
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Hey,
I just want to say that Asheville was my favourite town in two trips to the states. Best coffee I had in America was out of a row of thermoses in a little cafe there. Their Ethiopian was delicious.
Very jealous of the whole nomad thing and of where you are parking up for a month. Think of me under the fluorescent lights of our open plan office while you are there.
BTW, did you change WordPress theme? This one is nice.
Hey Andrew,
I’m loving Asheville.
In fact, this could be “the place”. Still need to see the rest of It this year but…. yeah. Wow. Food scene. Coffee. Mountains. Damn.
There are lots of “boutique” coffee shops. best I’ve ever been to. I’ve spent time at Waking Life and Battle Cat coffee (best name ever) and they are fantastic.
I will of course be thinking of you and everyone else under the fluorescents each and every moment.
Are you guys posting on Mondays now?
Only because I haven’t gotten things posted on Friday… What do you think is better?
I personally like Mondays better, because I can start my week with the most entertaining podcast.
I vote for more musical interludes!
I agree that it’s absurd that a company can be profitable selling software to granite countertop installers. But part of the bias we’ve all got is that we’re software folks… which is the exception in the world.
I’m guessing it’s possible to create an industry-specific scheduling tool from software like Salesforce… if you spend a ton of time. Plus, you need to have technical abilities to understand & customize. If you’re a software person, that might be trivial.
But, our customers (like most of the “civilian” world) haven’t ever bought complex software before – in some cases even using Excel is a challenge. If we can hand them a solution on a silver platter, it’s totally worth it for them.
I think we (my company, plus all self-funded software companies) have an opportunity because:
1. We’re marketing to a specific niche, so we have the attention of that community
2. We sell a solution that’s geared exactly to that niche
3. We know our customers’ problems & lingo, so our customer support has outsize value.
I’m obviously biased, but finding a small well-defined market has been pretty awesome for us… and probably the right choice for 99% of software entrepreneurs.
Well, thanks for the shout-out on the podcast! Can’t wait for the next episode. (with more guitar, accompanied by Brecht’s sultry voice, I hope)
Totally agree with you Harry about us as software people not recognizing the challenges non-software people have with putting together their own solutions. There definitely DIY Hackers (sorta like Brecht even) who pull together solutions to serve their needs, but I’d think the vast majority of non-tech people can only choose from what is already available. If your solution fits that need, and they know about you, you will be more valuable than excel / insert generic application here…
RE: publishing on Mondays
The danger there is you slip a day and jam up against Startups for the Rest of us. Techzing goes a day late and jams up against you. Bootstrapped (no kids in title, though they do have kids now) dumps one at a random moment that happens to coincide… Suddenly your audience has a week like this one with a great start and just emptiness ahead to fill up with BBC and Radiotopia non-actionable entertainment…
There are serious domino effect risks that we hadn’t calculated.