Giant Ken
By Ken
Giant KenApr 27, 2017
It was never about the chair.
08 Compassion and Business Are Not Opposites
Don't set up a false dichotomy between making money and being concerned for people. Compassion and business are not at odds. You don't need to choose one or the other. You can do both. Often, growing your business can help a lot of people.
07 Some things can't be tested
There are some parts of your new business that you're going to just have to take a deep breath and wing it. Put something out there, see what happens.
06 What about your other podcast?
Here's a quick answer to a question I was asked on the twitters about why The Nights and Weekends Podcast has gone kinda silent this year.
05 Screen Porch Sunday
Working from the screen porch today.
04 Baseball makes for a bad Pomodoro timer
Sometimes, life gives you natural stopping points for time blocking.
Examples:
- Work on this task until the kids get off the bus.
- Think about this coupon strategy until it's time for that meeting.
- Work on that UX problem until timer on the oven says that the lasagna is done.
- Work on the app (from my laptop, on the couch) until the baseball game is finished.
Ahhh, the best laid plans.
Sometimes, life throws you a curve ball and you accidentally pull an all-nighter.
03 CEO vs Worker Bee, Onboarding, Freemium
Big picture thinking, vs. task-oriented focus.
Sometimes, you just gotta keep your nose to the grind stone and execute on the vision. Sometimes, though, you need to rethink that overall vision.
Here's where it gets tough... you can't do both at the same time.
02 Adding scarcity to a pre-launch
Let's discuss switching to a launch model for this membership, rather than an always-open model.
01 Framing the business problems to be solved
Candid talk about building the next phase of MastermindJam