If you’ve ever run long distances, you know what being in the zone means. You shut off the rest of the world, your vision tunnelize, sounds seems to come from far away. You’re in. You’re focused on one thing. Getting in the zone seems increasingly difficult if you work in front of a computer. Between - Read More -
I recently hired a promising school dropout. He goes by the nomulous moniker on the web and as Fletcher Tomalty everywhere else. Some late night browsing on GitHub made me a very lucky manager as he’s so far the best hire of my 1st decade in technology. Too bad, he’s not drinking yet Last week, - Read More -
If you’re a co-founder, CEO or simply the boss of the company, everything that sucks about it or that fails is your fault. Don’t even think of blaming the new guy, the young guy or the guy who left for a week in the Bahamas. If one does not know what to do, is not - Read More -
I like optimization, especially when running errands during the weekend. I always find myself figuring the best route to complete all tasks. What do I want? An app to … Alert me when I am close to a business related to an item on my TODO (integration with YellowPages API?). Integration with Google Maps so - Read More -
First thing you do is delegating work right? So what’s next? There’s always something you have to do in a day that truly sucks. One item on your TODO list you are avoiding over and over again. You usually get to it somewhere in the afternoon. By that time, you convince yourself you’ll do it - Read More -
This is part two of the so-obvious-productivity advice serie sponsored by an anonymous procrastinator. Part1 is here. No secret here, delegating work is surely the best way to increase a team or single person productivity. While you work, others work for you to and by the end of the day, more work has been done - Read More -
I just read a post about important traits for entrepreneur that made me think of what I like in the people I prefer to work with. 1 of the 2 traits Elad listed was a “raw capacity to learn”. They learn from every event. It’s magic. They turn everything that happens to them into an - Read More -
I’ve always had some problems with vacation policy as they rarely reward hard work. Found out about an interesting Vacation No-Policy going around at NetFlix, GroupOn, Flixster, and Rapleaf. One of the things a fast growing company can do is constantly look to eliminate unnecessary policies and bureaucracy. One place to look is your vacation - Read More -
It’s now been way over a month since I left the corporate world to jump on this new adventure. Might seems short, but time is when you know your runway length, how fast the market is heating up and you see your arbitrary deadlines coming up. It’s enough to learn a few lessons that I’ll - Read More -