YerraCo

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I have a tendency to work outside-in. Create the business and then go backward. This is fine, but there needs to be a solid foundation on which these businesses are built if you have multiple businesses. I’ve worked on the brands, versus working on the branches. The branches are where the power is because a […]

I am nearing the completion of the organization of my tasks, notes, and essays. I have collected a lot of them over the years spread over Evernote, OneNote, DayOne, Notion and the Notes app. Instead of declaring bankruptcy, I have moved them from system to system carrying them across new tools. So my notes have […]

The disconnect that exists between writing PRFAQs and execution is real. What I mean by this is that a PRFAQ while needing to be a live document doesn’t seem to be. It exists separate from the code which causes issues since the code and the doc don’t seem to coexist. Further, a Press Release is […]

As I am thinking more and more the brand is a frontend. The way you do things is way more important. The brand is a deliver mechanism. So if I am trying to pull a startup studio type building then it may make more sense to use a frontend type approach. What I mean by […]

One of the lessons I keep having to relearn over and over and over again is that: a product needs to be as small as possible, doing the fewest things possible while being easy to use to solve a very real problem for a specific customer. A customer needs to come to a website and […]

As my last post has noted I am at the end of the draft period. It is time to heavily optimize each component and edit it for clarity while using that knowledge to execute. It now becomes how do I update each part and how do I go forth doing each part methodically. I’m thinking […]