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 […]
One Week …
One week into the start of the business planning and things are starting to come together. It’s a slow process thanks in part to all the UEB, FEB, and NVD LBS goodness I’ve forgotten over the last three years (the first three are acronyms for classes and the last one is the forbidden acronym of […]
Old Notes
I’m a note taker. Notes will be taken during every meeting; every impromptu conversation; every where and at any time. I take notes for a couple reasons. First, GTD suggests that anything that can be written down should be written down. And, second my memory is really pretty poor. On average, I take two types […]
Toe in the water on this work thing
Bob Slydell: You see, what we’re actually trying to do here is, we’re trying to get a feel for how people spend their day at work… so, if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you? Peter Gibbons: Yeah. Bob Slydell: Great. Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least […]
All Done
The picture was taken in the early hours of the 22nd at the after party. It was a great day. Perfect weather; gorgeous city; a lovely wedding. Congratulations Richard and Giselle.
Now @ 14,000 ft – Let’s do this
By the time this posts, my time with Infosys will be complete. Castles in the sand or a solid profitable company that lasts the tests of time? Dunno but it’ll be damn interesting to find out.
