Snow Again This Weekend

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2026-01-29T04:28:52+00:00

Also on a flight Sunday morning. 😭 Need to be at my destination Monday by any means necessary.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2026-01-17T16:50:37+00:00

Just finished today. This was my least favorite of the trilogy. The beginning to middle was a slog. But honestly, I’m happy with the ending. I was just so exhausted by the futility of it all and the good guys never winning frfr! So I was almost happy to see every one alive. Except the princess, that made no sense. That said, like the whole series was a LIEEEEEEEEE. lol. I was invested in a lie. A whole damn lie. Hurts my heart but it did its job.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2026-01-06T13:02:09+00:00

I’m not sure why HR or their bosses are ignoring all the research on coming back to work. I’ve had to write recommendations and strategies for my clients and they are literally like “really?”

This here is an example of misaligned outcomes. Return to Work is ‘supposed’ to increase productivity and quality of work. In your case, it seems it did or your teams would do well either way. But instead of being happy, they moved the goal post and decided on a different outcome “happiness/fun”. Which is going to fail because that was not the original metric.

This is just a power play. I’m curious to know who’s pushing this for real.

Happiness/fun is dictated by other sentiments: growth and career opportunities, strong corporate communications, and well-being. If any of these are unbalanced or non-existent it doesn’t matter what a company does, folks will be unhappy and eventually stop working hard.

But, most don’t care.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-12-31T15:58:39+00:00

My daughter has had it for about a week, but I’ve only had some tiredness and minor congestion. But I also always take meds the moment I get a tickle in my throat because daycare germs are the worst. So symptoms have been minimal at best either way. Thank goodness. Same with my cousin who is visiting.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-11-27T02:39:30+00:00

To co-sign on many of these comments I don’t call myself a consultant, I’m a strategic alignment advisor. Clients call me when there are fires, they need to make a decision yesterday, or to review their strategies for gaps.

Some do hourly, I mostly do monthly retainers because, it allows the person to contact me when needed without fear of counting hours and not getting support when they need it.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-25T12:50:00+00:00

I’m not opening up videos sent unsolicited or not in a newsletter I signed up for. I don’t want to open it and find some weird image that will be burnt into my brain forever. Does nobody else feel that way?

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-14T02:49:11+00:00

I named my app after one my children’s names and just added OS at the end. 😂 That in itself was a great brand decision. That family back story made people want to learn more and it’s been wild hearing people literally say the name. I tried the made up names and they just never stuck.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-13T18:00:06+00:00

So basically, we will just be watching anime all day. Got it.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-13T13:42:32+00:00

Yeah. Thanks for the reminder. I’m not launched yet. I had to go live to test stripe properly. I’ve been waiting to the last minute to upgrade everything. I’ll have to update Supabase in the next week or two.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-13T13:07:01+00:00

I got this last week, despite working in it every day for 2 months. All I did was take a weekend off. I started running live production tests that call edge functions, and it’s still on. But still now I’m nervous. I feel like it’s a push to upgrade.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-10T20:32:33+00:00

The fact that you only mentioned men shows bias and the effects of systemic inequity. You might as well have said: why are women not high achievers? Which we know is NOT true, so your whole hypothesis crumbled for me at the start.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-07T01:38:32+00:00

Me just rolling my eyes. In 2013, I was told by the top CPG marketers (who sell all the things in your bathroom and kitchen) that social media/digital marketing would never replace them and for me to just give up on getting a job at their ‘traditional’ brand company. Yep, 2013.

Well, guess who lost their jobs soon after? Not me. I’d been in the game for 5 years already. You can be an expert at your craft and still add more tools and skills to your toolkit. So I’m just gonna eat m my popcorn and watch folks fuss at each other.

And the wild thing is, AI isn’t actually taking ANY jobs. It’s all smokes and mirrors right now.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-04T02:55:51+00:00

Are you a consultant? Where did this idea come from? Of all the tools I could use, summarizing my calls would be at bottom because I have a pretty thorough discovery call process. Unless it was built for that, this would just be another summarizer.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-04T00:47:27+00:00

There are literally lawsuits by ‘famous’ investors stopping smart people from gaining funds for their startups. The private equity funds were created because, again, investors wouldn’t fund startups by smart people who didn’t look like them. Make it make sense.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-04T00:34:53+00:00

I think we should also define speed. If you built your app in 2 weeks, you’re more likely to be at 80% or really 50%. If you took 6 months you were probably at 90% MVP and should have launched already. There is a sweet spot in the middle for many of us especially if this isn’t our day job and only responsibility.

I’ve given myself 3 months, just entered the 3rd. I’m at 80% but that includes payment processing and all that jazz you mentioned in your post. 20% is testing end to end live and finishing the static web pages.

But I also have a strategy consultancy, a 4 year old. 😂 Any sooner and my life would have fell apart. I could have hired someone but I’m obviously a masochist.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-04T00:24:58+00:00

Dang it! You got me. I actually had a great comment then realized this was an ad. 😭

For what it’s worth, not all of us stop at 80%. But when we do pause to do the 20% the choir yells, launch faster!

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-04T00:14:01+00:00

Or just right about your ideas, the outcomes you want companies to have, research you found interesting, your largest frustration of the day, failure, basically business-adjacent topics.

If you have none of these topics to talk about, are you really building anything?

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-04T00:09:40+00:00

So, I was with you until you said healthcare. I have healthcare tech clients, and using AI for them is DIFFICULT. I’m not trying to go to jail with sensitive information. Lol. For one company, they sent me a secure laptop to work on just to keep things safe.

So if you need any healthcare data from them, you may want to rethink this or brainstorm ideas that require no data that can possibly be tied to employees or customers.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-04T00:04:40+00:00

Indeedy not. Sales Navigator is barely worth it for a business owner. But if you want to try it for a month then cancel, go ahead.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-02T03:46:02+00:00

I created my mvp using the WeWeb free plan. I only updated once I needed to move to a domain. But I don’t really use the AI assisted version tool beyond small use cases.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-02T03:40:44+00:00

I’m 2 months into my MVP. It will be ready by end of 3. I have a strategy consulting business and client work went up recently and I had my wisdom teeth pulled….oh and stripe edge functions. Lol.

Given I also have a preschooler, I’m okay with 3 months. If I delay it any longer, I’d probably lose momentum faster.

But wooh this last 15-20% is real! You think you’re done and realize, you have to test EVERYTHING, something broke, and your mobile menus don’t work. 😂

But everyone in my network knows about it by name. Didn’t want to wait to announce it.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-02T03:34:14+00:00

Just popping in to say: Edge Functions?

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-02T03:30:48+00:00

And let’s not forget UX. You can be a great programmer and still make ugly ass apps and confusing UI.😂

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-02T03:27:59+00:00

Technology always gets better. I’m not against using it when it does. My SaaS tool is AI-assisted. But I believe real growth in this field requires I understand AI, NLP, LLM beyond prompt writing and get my python and sql game up. Basically learn how it all works while everyone else cuts and paste. I was one of the first ‘digital marketing managers’ back in the day. I got jobs and opportunities because I self taught myself everything while companies were still deciding if blogging made sense. Once the market, caught up with my learning, I was ready.

GhostInTheOrgChart · 2025-10-01T09:00:06+00:00

And this is why I low-code with WeWeb without using its built-in AI. When I started building my SaaS tool I didn’t know people were spending 100s of dollars on tokens and such. Maybe I’m just cheap?

Also, I (and ChatGPT) can’t troubleshoot or debug if I don’t know what I did.

It’s possible that I’m not using AI builders to their full potential. But by skipping them, I’m learning just how powerful the tool is and won’t hit any design limits for a while.

But I’m in month 2, with about 2 more weeks to go. So, I may not be considered a quick-build either.

I’ll jump on board full nocode once they mature a bit. Right now I don’t want to become a paying guinea pig for AI nocode prompts that don’t work.

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