Progress Update Numéro Deux

Author: Jason Category: general Tags: progress, update

Saturday
Jul 4, 2009

Welcome to the second of the regular Ditch the Office updates.  Sorry that this post is a little later than my promised Friday arfternoon update but I’ve been flat out this week! And it is still friday (just) so it’s all good.

So, what’s been happening?  I’ve been busy beavering away at getting a basic website developed for one of my projects.  It did involve a necessary step in what I consider was ultimately the wrong direction.  I did technical work myself!  I know, I know.  Not the ideal situation but I couldn’t find someone to do it for the price of a case of beer so I resigned and did it myself.  I learnt more about web design and implementation than I care to share here or even really use in the future but it had to be done.  All I lost was a week of effort that I could be spending on other things…  I did get to listen to lots of podcasts and radio though and some goals were kicked so not all was lost.

Through my ditching and office activities I also heard/read a few good quotes this week:

1. Try hard, fail fast, learn and move on (or something like that) – Jason Calicanis, This Week in Startups podcast
2. Don’t mistake activity with progress (or something like that) – From the book Who Moved My Cheese (I think) by Dr Spencer Johnson

Heard any good quotes lately that have inspired, invigorated or enraged you?

So, in summary this week was very busy and at times frustrating.  More importantly, rather than just being active, I was making progress and this did wonders for the motivation.  This weeks Motivation = Powerful! and the Progress = Better than pitiful.

What does next week hold?  Well, I’ve got some introductions that I’ll need to prepare for.  I need to get 2-3 more people from each one to continue the networking and build those contacts.

I’ll let you know how it goes next Friday.  Au revoir!

ps.  Through the power of google translate I’ll be seeing how many numbers I can get up to in different languages.  Fun huh?

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Welcome to the second of the regular Ditch the Office updates.  Sorry that this post is a little later than my promised Friday arfternoon update but I’ve been flat out this week! And it is still friday (just) so it’s all good.

So, what’s been happening?  I’ve been busy beavering away at getting a basic website developed for one of my projects.  It did involve a necessary step in what I consider was ultimately the wrong direction.  I did technical work myself!  I know, I know.  Not the ideal situation but I couldn’t find someone to do it for the price of a case of beer so I resigned and did it myself.  I learnt more about web design and implementation than I care to share here or even really use in the future but it had to be done.  All I lost was a week of effort that I could be spending on other things…  I did get to listen to lots of podcasts and radio though and some goals were kicked so not all was lost.

Through my ditching and office activities I also heard/read a few good quotes this week:

1. Try hard, fail fast, learn and move on (or something like that) – Jason Calicanis, This Week in Startups podcast
2. Don’t mistake activity with progress (or something like that) – From the book Who Moved My Cheese (I think) by Dr Spencer Johnson

Heard any good quotes lately that have inspired, invigorated or enraged you?

So, in summary this week was very busy and at times frustrating.  More importantly, rather than just being active, I was making progress and this did wonders for the motivation.  This weeks Motivation = Powerful! and the Progress = Better than pitiful.

What does next week hold?  Well, I’ve got some introductions that I’ll need to prepare for.  I need to get 2-3 more people from each one to continue the networking and build those contacts.

I’ll let you know how it goes next Friday.  Au revoir!

ps.  Through the power of google translate I’ll be seeing how many numbers I can get up to in different languages.  Fun huh?

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