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Product Development and Internal Markets
I am slowly starting to get into product development again. However, I am doing it in a slightly different manner. I am focused on capabilities-based expansion working on projects adjacent to what I am already doing. Currently, mostly tools for opsZero and software to help my parents with their real estate. Instead of jumping headfirst […]
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Iteration P4.2022
I’ve been doing six week iterations as it is a long enough timeframe to make meaningful big changes. My time is split into a four week focused work period and a two week relax period. What is interesting about this iteration is by week four I will be traveling to Europe so I will be […]
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Transitioning to editor
As an entrepreneur I’ve had to play all hats: investor, entrepreneur, manager, individual contributor. Each is a different skill and hat. But at this point in my life it is getting harder and harder to be good at everything. Also, priorities change where I want to focus on things I enjoy and delegate things I […]
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Moving on From OKRs
I’ve tried OKRs long enough now that they are not resulting in a positive outcome from a quarterly perspective. The problem lies in a couple things: Changing OKRs from quarter to quarter seems too fast and doesn’t result in actual time to develop long-term strategy. Once a strategy has been developed for an OKR it […]
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Gig-Workforce 0.1
One of the problems that I’ve been trying to deal with is that 1. I have a lot of customers 2. I have a lot of ideas that I can’t get to because of 1. I finally developed a system to address 2 while benefiting 1. I’ve been pulling my teeth on this problem. My […]
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Managing Inconsistent Agency Cash Flows via Margin Accounts
Banks are conservative. They don’t loan money to businesses that need money, they loan money to businesses that don’t money. This doesn’t help if you are an agency where companies pay you in whatever timeframe they want even if you say NET-15. An agency likely also has a hard time raising money since it is […]
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You Can Only Focus on One Thing…
It is impossible to want to do one thing forever. People get burnt out and want to chase other things, but in the end you. An only do one thing at a time. You can say you want different brands, or have different unrelated tasks, but at the end of the day you can only […]
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Optimizing for One Business
A business made up of other businesses needs to have a cornerstone business. Everything else follows this cornerstone business and in essence a capabilities-based expansion of that business. opsZero is the cornerstone business, YieldPayroll, MakeProspect, etc. exist to ensure that opsZero does well. They exist insofar as they help opsZero grow. Trading and real estate […]
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Deployment of App
The deployment of the app happens in four places: Lambda Kubernetes Mac Mini Cloudflare Pages The combination of having different deploys and having it all run as a single unit may be a bit crazy but it should be long term beneficial. The goal is to be like a construction of a Lego structure. Each […]
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Divestable
One of the problems I’ve been trying to get around is how to make things divestable, while also having a central monorepo. This is harder problem than it looks. The core of the company is a set of Python scripts that generate the websites. and also other core things. The ventures may rely on this […]