Summary: I have done a few startup weekends and customer discovery events in total and have found some common patterns. Pregame Make sure you have alerted friends and acquaintances about the weekend so that they know they probably won’t see much of you. This helps clear any potential distractions. It definitely helps to clear your [...]
I want to put myself in a position where I can fail. While this might not sound very appetizing, I’ll make a case that it is. I could wait two years until someone decides I’m ready for the next level, or I can decide that I’m ready—experience be damned. At a certain point, more book [...]
What could you do if you only needed to sleep four hours a day? Assuming you sleep eight hours a day right now, your average day would be 25% longer! A few summers ago, I tried sleeping 4.5 hours a day while holding a full-time job. Here’s what I experienced as the result of doing [...]
Lean Startup Machine weekends are a chance to apply the lean startup methodology by trying to build a startup in 48 hours. One of the key goals is demonstrating a process of learning. Learning takes various forms, and might include testing hypotheses through conversations, collecting qualitative and quantitative indicators of interest through surveys, creating MVPs [...]
Software Engineering Professionals has a brown bag system that has been going on for over a year now. This post will describe how this successful system works. Overview Brown bags (also known as ‘lunch and learns’) are a great way to spread knowledge among coworkers. They are a way for managers and employees to present [...]
I’m sorry I wrote such a long letter. I did not have the time to write a short one. – Abraham Lincoln For a long time, I strove to be efficient in communication. I would carefully consider the right words for things, especially when writing. But I realize now that good communication should have some [...]
I came upon a helpful tool for diagnosing why I sometimes do things that logically seem to be against my best interests. Odds are, you are probably doing it too without even knowing it.
