That’s awesome. Now why are you building a calculator? What does your calculator do differently than the one that currently ships with Windows? Nothing? It does exactly what the current Windows calculator does. It doesn’t do anything different. Feeding AI the requirements for an app that has existed since 1980 isn’t magic. Sure AI might do it faster, but when was the last time you bundled your app with a calculator? I recently did a…
Teams grow. Products get more complicated. Process encroaches. Security protocols enter the fray. You’re past Minimum Viable Product. Now it’s about growth, security, and maintaining delivery timelines and schedules. But never leave the small business mindset that you had and that got you there – think small, work with what you have, deliver big.
Want to know which option is best? Clear your head of all the distractions. Want to know whether you should take your job? Break it down to the two jobs and clear your head of all other offers. Not sure what platform works best for you? Outline a few tests, measure against those tests, clear out the what-ifs, and move on. Adding more criteria, more reasons, more questions, more options, doesn’t help us get to…
I write this knowing I am out there shopping right now. I wish this wasn’t true but it invariably is. Today is the last day, you waited until the last possible moment. And now you’re frazzled and have to hustle to get it done. Calm down, breathe, go get it, there are lots of hours in the day.
Every Math test I would take in high school ended that way – “Pencils Down” – as though I had created some masterful creation that was perfect and could no longer get any better. It was at this moment, when all hands were up that we’d look around at other people’s papers and either smile in agreement or become immediately dejected at having received the wrong answer. When leaving jobs, this is the new “Pencils…