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–JJS
A primer on how to act on priority. There aren’t many different priorities, since priority is binary. Something either is (high) priority or not a priority. As soon as that’s understood, acting on prioritized tasks becomes easy: HIGH → Let’s do it. ASAP. Medium → Next time. If there’s time. Low → 🗑 And as hard as it feels, take those low [...]
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A notification pops up, I tap “complete”, set out to do it after the current task is done, and forget about it. Sounds familiar? If I’m lucky, I remember to do my task later. But usually by then it’s too late. I didn’t put the task on my todo-list and set up the reminder instead, because it was time-sensitive. This is a failure by [...]
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I’ve always been a fan of having bacon and scrambled eggs for breakfast, but found the preparation involved quite tedious and time-consuming. In early April I came across a recipethat got me curious. After some experiments regarding ingredients and cooking technique, this is what I’ve had for breakfast most days in the last six weeks: [...]
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Note: Attorney at Law Carsten Lexa, LL.M. interviewed me on GründerTalk, a startup and founders show in German language. Therefore this post is in German as well, sorry! Rechtsanwalt Carsten Lexa, LL.M. hat mich für die Show GründerTalk der Initiative Gründen@Würzburg vor die Kamera gebeten, um von meinen Erfahrungen aus den ersten vier [...]
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All great things have small beginnings. Then take small steps to move forward towards the goal.
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"All great things have small beginnings."
For a couple of months now, we start every project at Sophisticates using what we call an “MVP workshop”. Many clients come to us with their vision of a custom software, but not a specific plan of what exactly it is they need. So the first thing we do is figure out which features we really need to build in order to create a useful [...]
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The other day I took my bike in to get a flat tire fixed. The air would always stay in there at 5.5bar for my usual 30 minutes ride, but after letting the bike sit in the garage over night, the pressure would be gone. I assumed the valve was broken, and I told the repair guy when I handed over the bike. He changed the tire, I paid for [...]
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Running businesses means to try and predict a lot every day. Which actually is impossible, because there’s never enough information about the things we need to decide. Often because we cannot afford the time or money required to gather more information. All we can do on a regular basis is guesstimate. We need to get comfortable using the [...]
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"Focus. You can always do the other stuff later."
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