What wakes you up in the morning? What makes you excited? What can pull you off of what you are currently doing? What makes you happy or brings a smile to your face? What enriches you? What pushes and challenges you? What calls you might be the end goal and the work in between is what is holding you back – but the end goal is worth it – all you need to do is…
What is the Problem that keeps you up at night? The answered question. What is the Problem you Need to Solve? (Not the one for your job, or school or for anyone else). What’s the problem, that you personally Need to Solve?
Video games are a great example of an industry that is always serving multiple audiences at the same time and needs both to survive. The existing users supported the game the first time and helped get it off the ground with early adoption and support. The new audience, who has never seen the game, but is interested in it and is wondering if they should invest their time in it. Both markets matter for the…
What do people love about the work you do? Have you ever asked them or are you coming up with that list on your own? Ask them. What do you like about what I do? This isn’t about you getting validation for what you do or feeling “awesome” about yourself (although it is an awesome side effect). It is about you hearing what people like (maybe asking what they don’t like) and realizing where your…
Over the summer I had an office flood followed by construction going on outside my window. The home office was no better with roadwork being done. I couldn’t stop the flood. I wasn’t about to tell me not to do work on their house or on a building I don’t own. But I did go buy some amazing noise-canceling headphones that blocked out the bulk of the noise and let me work. You can’t control…