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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.
I recently decided to switch over to it full time instead of using Entourage 2008 and discovered a strange crash with Apple Mail whenever I’d try to start it up.
Trying to start Apple Mail would leave me with a message of “Mail had quit unexpectedly.”..
A distant lightbulb went off in my head and I realized it might have to do with my Marketcircle Daylite software and it’s plugin to the Apple Mail, and the Daylite server, which syncs my calendar, todo, projects and contacts automatically over the air.
Anyone 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.
Information technology is the art of managing an organization’s processes by establishing and maintaining computing frameworks.
I came across a great article titled:
Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks
on ComputerWorld. It’s not a site that I frequent very often but this opinion peiece hasd some excellent points.
1. My currency is respect.
Anyone who knows me how often these words come out of my mouth. Whether it pertains to family, friends, or clients, the secret to getting me and keeping me on your side, quite happily going out of my way to help you succeed is respect.
Jason Fried of 37 Signals wrote an article titled “The way I work” a few days ago about his work schedule, balance, and prioritization.
In it he covers his typical day and mindset. What’s interesting is his focus on basing all of his decisions around eliminating one thing, that I’ve been a huge fan of.
Interruption is the enemy of productivity.
Here’s the deal. When creating anything, be it creative, abstract, or analytical..
I build a Web application when I don’t want to:
- be supporting a thousand environments each with their own quirks. Specifically, viruses, trojans, software interfering, and making it work the same everywhere.
- worry about applying upgrades and taking lots of calls
Crafting software is like.. building a house.
You can try building it without a blueprint or plans or an architect or qualified tradespeople and it will almost always cost you much more and you will have constant issues.
Second, just because you can..
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Building them is what actually creates success.
In real partnerships, if one of the partners is working as an employee, his time gets paid for at a fair wage. This is because the other partners are earning money elsewhere in that time that you would be earning nothing. Is months of your time is equal to a $1800 investment?