My trip to Arkansas with my partner (also named Al by the way) was very successful. Al and I spent two days going through all the old inventory for the company. I’m currently keying in the raw data. My gut tells me that we’ve documented about 60-70% of the existing materials. Al’s heading back to […]
Unproductive Time trying to be Productive: The Search for GTD software on a Mac
Last week, I made a major change to how I work. After 16 years of exclusive Microsoft Windows Outlook use I bought a Mac. I’ve wanted a Mac for a while but always found reasons not to have one, but finally it was time. Of course, the first set of actions after getting the computer […]
Back to It
This afternoon is the first time I’ve spent more than an hour working on ToyCo in the last two weeks. My hiatus didn’t occur because of a lack of desire but merely from a lack of time. I had to spend more time in the Mountain State than originally anticipated, which took most of my […]
Depressing Aha Moments
I just had a pretty serious aha moment while emptying the dishwasher. How do those glasses get so clean? No, that wasn’t it. The aha moment concerns my little business plan and a giant question mark that has haunted me over the last few days. The giant question: so, how many people do we think […]
Pen to Paper
Enough preparing. Enough initial researching. It’s time to write this thing. I will be writing the first draft of our business plan over the next three days. This version is very much a straw-man and will need a ton of rework but getting some ideas down on paper seems like the only way to find […]
