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> Pay yourself first (work on that thing first thing in the morning) What if there is obligatory daily standup early in the morning eating up the entire mornin
by expertentipp 9y ago
> Pay yourself first (work on that thing first thing in the morning)
What if there is obligatory daily standup early in the morning eating up the entire morning energy? Well obviously it's not explicitly obligatory but the "we are the second family", "be a good team player" stuff.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoTheoretically? Get up even earlier. In practice, it doesn't work for everyone. Some of us are night owls, and I don't mean the "likes to stay up late" kind, but "can't possibly get up in the morning without being kicked out of bed by someone else" kind.
- skate22 9y agoMy team does standups on slack, it works very well for us.
- devmunchies 9y agosound like micromanagement without the ceremony. Still better than an actual standup. I'm glad when we get to do this instead (like when the team is in meetings).
- staz 9y agoIf they were you family they would care about your health, if they were team players they would find a way to work together on the long term not just burn you out and replace you in 2 months. When I had my burnout, I just wanted to quit, my boss told me to take as much time as I needed to get better and kept me as an employee
- flachsechs 9y agoget up earlier, or do it in the evenings. if you can't do one of these things, you may want to consider what it actually means to own your own company.
- expertentipp 9y agoI would gladly own an outsourcing hegemon charging the clients tens or hundreds of millions of USD/EUR and paying the employees anually 20-40k USD... but getting up earlier or rescheduling my hobbies for the evenings will not be enough I'm afraid.
- flachsechs 9y agoyeah, the biggest problem with a starting a company is you actually have to start it. it totally sucks.
- expertentipp 9y agoThese kind of businesses are not just casually started by some random guy.
- flachsechs 9y agoyeah they are. i've worked for 2 of them. the problem is you think there's "special" people and "special" businesses... there aren't. there's just successful, and not, and you can't determine a priori which it's going to be. furthermore, the number of $10 million - $100 million businesses (including consulting firms) operating today that you've never heard of is probably in the tens of thousands.
- marcosdumay 9y agoThen you do the "or whenever you can give it attention" part. As importantly, don't care too much about the annoying standup - just get it out of the way.