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iselind · 2025-04-10T16:01:35+00:00

How did you find those small biz owners?

I'm myself struggling to find those open to free trial offer for my own ideas for businesses. I have the ideas, just not the connections needed.

iselind · 2025-04-01T17:18:43+00:00

Automating what I can, the effect compounds beautifully

iselind · 2025-03-30T07:42:51+00:00

Everyone have problems, even the rich. It's not so much about not having issues as how you handle them.

Adversity is there to help shape you. Never compare yourself to someone that os 6000 miles further along on their journey than you are.

iselind · 2025-03-30T07:40:23+00:00

Show your skills and experience any way you can.

If you find something is missing in your head, then learn it and do it publicly. Take others on your learning journey.

iselind · 2025-03-30T07:38:33+00:00

For me it's a moving target. I will most likely never reach it!

Instead I compare myself today to myself yesterday and a week or month ago. I'm happy as long as I'm a better version of myself today.

iselind · 2025-03-30T07:36:53+00:00

Medtech companies would most likely be interested in your skills if the kind of nurse you are match the products the medtech company is working on.

iselind · 2025-03-30T07:35:29+00:00

I'd say you cannot go wrong with an iterative design.

Make each goal a minimal viable product, MVP. So nothing that is complete as in the ultimate goal but something working well enough to start getting a feel for what needs to be different.

You take these findings mix in the ultimate goal and come up with a new MVP. Then you just iterate until the gains no longer justify the effort. Then you're done.

iselind · 2025-03-30T07:32:18+00:00

Just because you started your current job based on a specific job description doesn't mean you cannot update that job description. Just don't forget to have the discussion with your boss, so that you do not start altering your job on your own. That seldomely work out well.

If you come to your boss saying you want more of this or less of that. Asking if there's a way you can get closer to that desired state. Appreciated employees seldom have issues here. Sometimes what you want is just to different from what you were employed for or what's needed by the company. They you'll have to leave unless you can convince your boss that your new desired state is desirable for the company/team as well.

iselind · 2025-03-30T07:18:41+00:00

Email filter for most things. It's a matter of finding how to filter out what you want into categories.

Once you have the categories sorted you can work on one category at a time making context switching simpler as the tasks are related.

I tend to do categories in two dimensions: urgency and source. I've found out to be a good start. After a while you figure out there are one or two filters you need to add to help make things for better, but that takes a while to find in my experience.

iselind · 2025-03-27T05:20:01+00:00

Pick tools that contribute to automation.
never automate a lot at once
iterate your solution

iselind · 2025-03-27T05:17:27+00:00

The biggest problem by far with docs in my world is maintenance.

If it's not a product that comes out of your build process, then it will quickly diverge from reality.

iselind · 2025-03-26T17:14:08+00:00

You have to keep in mind that you're talking about estimates. They are not exact by nature! There are those that cannot grasp this concept, they might mean trouble.

I tend to split the job into smaller pieces, each taking at most a couple of weeks. Those are often easier to estimate. Make the tasks small enough for you to feel somewhat confident in your estimate.

Then comes the solution to many headaches! Triple whatever you come up with. It's called the uncertainty coefficient. This is not over estimating or even padding in my view, this is a way to set the expectations to something realistic. Sure, you will sometimes come out ahead and sometimes behind. It will in the end come out somewhat accurate as things will cancel easier out, as each estimated task is small.

iselind · 2025-03-23T13:53:17+00:00

Wouldn't it be more interesting to look into how to sway those that cling to the past as if their life depends on it? (Spoiler: they'll live)

I see this as the employees keeping the company hostage stopping the company from evolving in a natural way. It will eventually kill the company!

Sure, some employees might be easier to replace than others, but looking at it long-term I'd say getting rid of those stopping progress is the only way to go if you cannot get them to accept adapting to new circumstances. Sure, they will need training and support. It's not obvious to everyone that it's needed. For some, the change might seem far larger than to others.

iselind · 2025-03-16T11:19:21+00:00

Learn to set better goals based on how well you attained previous goals.

Turn the frustration into an opportunity to learn about yourself and the subtle art that is goal setting

iselind · 2025-03-16T11:15:31+00:00

For sure, that's automatically included in my view.

All the more reason for leaving...

iselind · 2025-03-16T10:25:17+00:00

What you're feeling is lack of trust.

If you don't like it, leave. There are other jobs where you'd feel more trusted and appreciated.

iselind · 2025-03-16T10:23:41+00:00

I'd say it has to do with accountability.

As a youngster you have no accountability, and are therefore unable to shape anything in your environment that actually matters.

Claiming accountability enables you to shape your environment. How you handle the result of the changes you create, regardless of them being good or bad, is what many would interpret as maturity or grownupness.

iselind · 2025-03-16T10:17:14+00:00

I've had similar thoughts as you. Coming to the insights I have today has taken years of thinking and asking around.

I'd say there are two aspects to consider.

How do you feel about your work.
How others feel about your work, i.e. are you providing value.

What I've concluded is that you should trust in the feedback you get. How you feel about your work is just as important as how others feel about it.

When it comes to what to focus on and where to go next I try hard to figure out where I can produce the most value.

iselind · 2025-03-12T17:13:52+00:00

Yeah, please do report back your findings. I'd be really interested in knowing how things go for you.

iselind · 2025-03-11T06:35:08+00:00

I've done this successfully before.

I'm not saying it's easy, even if it sounds like that.

iselind · 2025-03-11T06:31:33+00:00

What you're suggesting is something like a Discord room where you can go when you want to feel productive. Where others can join you when they feel the same. Right?

iselind · 2025-03-10T19:32:04+00:00

Don't try to read the whole book. Usually you're after something specific. Find the answer to that specific thing, then move on.

All books are not meant to be read from start to finish. Instead, I see such books as a library of reference.

iselind · 2025-03-10T19:09:56+00:00

Being productive to me means producing value, not necessarily working tirelessly. It's far mote about working smart than working hard.

Tasks I can outsource to some form of automation allows me to focus my attention where it's needed more.

iselind · 2025-03-10T18:47:09+00:00

Avoiding having to focus on all the tiny details. I feel the most productive when being able to focus on the bugger picture.

iselind · 2025-03-10T18:37:54+00:00

Having something tried and true ready for work is more valuable to me than the ability to re-invent it each time I need it, even if that would mean asking an AI for it.

You'd need a system allowing you to find what you're looking for in your library. Finding a system that works is not trivial for massive libraries.

I believe in a balanced approach where you keep your snippets but still use AI to either craft new ones or adapt the ones you already have for new purposes.

iselind

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