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The picture is in the mind. The idea, the final view, the sheer excitement of imagining the final product, all happens in the mind.
Then you go to the tool selecrion.
Some are tried and tested. Some are new. Some are always reliable. Some may break midway.
Same is the case with canvas, paints, etc.
So also with methods and techniques.
But the process is as rewarding as the final result.
It's not landscaping, it's a fucking desk job. The defining property of desk jobs is that they're not strongly tied to location or equipment to preclude doing them at a desk. So out of convenience we use desks. Do you think every desk job other than software is just rote mechanical behavior that happens at desks, but only software is clever enough to need to think about what they're doing?
But I know, that's not what you meant, but I still don't see myself needing to get up for any reason (at least without in-person meetings) whereas others do that a lot :P
I tend to do a lot of my problem solving laying awake in bed at night. Either I can't sleep or I wake up in the small hours of the night, and I'll chew on some problem that's been bugging me until I solve it and go back to sleep. This was part of what made me want to start my own company. I'm not doing my best work until I'm so immersed in a project that my brain's working on it round the clock in the background, and…
It's not landscaping, it's a fucking desk job. The defining property of desk jobs is that they're not strongly tied to location or equipment to preclude doing them at a desk. So out of convenience we use desks. Do you think every desk job other than software is just rote mechanical behavior that happens at desks, but only software is clever enough to need to think about what they're doing?
Well, certainly a lot of it. Data entry, check processing, etc. These are the jobs software is doing away with specifically because it is clever.
I tend to do a lot of my problem solving laying awake in bed at night. Either I can't sleep or I wake up in the small hours of the night, and I'll chew on some problem that's been bugging me until I solve it and go back to sleep. This was part of what made me want to start my own company. I'm not doing my best work until I'm so immersed in a project that my brain's working on it round the clock in the background, and…
Now how are you planning to return loyalty to the employees whom you’ve hired who work the same way as you?
I tend to do a lot of my problem solving laying awake in bed at night. Either I can't sleep or I wake up in the small hours of the night, and I'll chew on some problem that's been bugging me until I solve it and go back to sleep. This was part of what made me want to start my own company. I'm not doing my best work until I'm so immersed in a project that my brain's working on it round the clock in the background, and…
Now how are you planning to return loyalty to the employees whom you’ve hired who work the same way as you?
But simply not telling employees who've saved my bacon multiple times that they're expected to take a significant pay cut while working unlimited uncompensated overtime with unlimited uncompensated travel would be a good start. (The guy who took the devil's bargain I turned down worked 400 hours overtime in the first four months, I absolutely made the right choice.)
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Now how are you planning to return loyalty to the employees whom you’ve hired who work the same way as you?
Initially, by paying them properly and respecting the work that they do. Down the track, still figuring it out but probably some kind of employee stock program combined with a mini-startup-incubator system for when employees come up with new product ideas and want more independence. But simply not telling employees who've saved my bacon multiple times that they're expected to take a significant pay cut while working…
What if you create a people-to-notify list, in case you write such a blog post in the future? Then please add me :- ) (email in my profile)