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It turns out a “how-to” interview I did with Andrew Warner of Mixergy got published today. Happy Thanksgiving in Canada, indeed. 
When Andrew asked me to share, I was honoured. Andrew accesses very cool people in business and tech, and asks them the deeper questions we all wonder about. Luckily, I was only doing a “how-to” interview, haha.
I hope my contribution of information furthers what Andrew is working to put out there. I can’t recall picking a Mixergy interview to watch and being disappointed. It’s quality stuff.
One skillset that I’ve learnt and and continued to develop over the last 12 years is systemizing and automating things in businesses. I hope you enjoy it and future posts on systemizing and automating in a business.
http://mixergy.com/jas-panesar-damaag-interview/
Why systemizing sucks less than not systemizing
10, Oct 2011When we read about systemizing, there can be a sense of dread of having to do it.
So much writing. Documenting. Trying it out. Make sure it works.
It’s seems easier and faster just to do it yourself, right?
In your business, is it your job to do everyone else’s job? Or is it your job to help figure out how to best do something?
Take a look at your actions. We go off figuring out the latest item we need to get running smoothly for ourselves. We want to make our own lives easier. So you decide to document it, scribble down some notes, and know that in a few months you’ll have enough to go back on. Bask in satisfaction of a job well done. Kind of.
Are you really finished? Or did you just systemize a process into being more efficient for just yourself, and not for your business? Don’t know what I mean? Systemize yourself so you can pass your expertise into your business to become systemized, and run that one thing without you.
How to systemize and automate any business.
7, Sep 2011Look out information hoarders. Knowledge isn’t power, applying knowledge is power. 15 years of being thrown down many problem solving wells is about to rain down some cold hard facts!
So, you have a business. Like any business, you need answers from every system in your business. The funny part? Every business wants the same answer from their data.
WHERE IS EVERYTHING AT?
That’s all anyone cares to know. On demand. Get good at it and there’s a future for you.
Automatically presenting this answer through systemizing is what I do as a Systems Integrator. I first make it simple to use what you click and read. Then under the covers, the complexity of what you do is busy working away for you 24/7.
If you’re looking for for meaty, applicable experience, here’s the first post in hopefully many. If more software was built like this, or better, we wouldn’t have so much bad, time consuming, hard to use software.
- In: Business| Business Technology| Customers| Productivity| Startups
- Tags: automate, systemize, systems integration
Ideas are worthless. Tune out the noise.
17, Oct 2010Ideas are worthless. There’s three things any ideas need to become reality. Time/Money, Technical Talent, and ability to Sell. If the idea doesn’t have those three it’s stupidly harder.
Generally, avoid idea people like the plague. If they don’t have money, tech talent, or the ability to sell, it won’t work out. If Idea-only people won’t put their money where their mouth is, no one’s time is worth it. I never sign NDA’s with first timers. If person has never had a success and they’re already scared, it’ll only get worse.
Having a profitable business alone isn’t success.
Every business needs cashflow (and profit) to survive like the body needs oxygen, food, and air. Just because a business has cashflow, doesn’t mean it’s a success, much like we aren’t a success in life just because we sat around and survived.
How a Great Design goes to hell
7, Dec 2009I received this funny comic and it got me thinking…..
I have often wondered how a relationship between specialist (Web, designer, programmer, etc.,) can sometimes turn into the customer believing they understand everything better than the specialist, and how to do it.
This is when phrases like:
“Couldn’t you just..”
“All you have to do..”
“It should be pretty simple..”
“Can’t we make it really simple on the screen? Why would that be more work to do it all behind the scenes?”
become more, and more common.
Problem? I don’t know.
The Mac came back.. the very next day?
4, Dec 2009Anyone who doesn’t purchase extended warranty from Apple for their Macs needs to read this.
I put a lot of time on my 15″ Macbook Pro. An average of 8-10 hours a day. Every day. The last 3 years since I switched back to Mac (since we all started on Apples in elementary school) have been incredible. No longer have I been tied up dealing with Windows to do the smallest things like connect a new camera to get a photo to fight with drivers. For the most part Mac just works, gets out of the way and let’s you focus on the task at hand.
Then, there was the day the music died. November 16th, 2009, for me, to be exact. I remember it, like it was yesterday. I am working at the office, no problems. Arrive at a clients, and the screen won’t turn on. Try to reboot, no luck. Everything seems to be turning on, except the screen. Strange.
Why your IT Sucks
20, Nov 2009Information technology is the art of managing an organization’s processes by establishing and maintaining computing frameworks.