If you’re not familiar with it yet, you will be soon.
Of course, here’s the obligatory Webster’s Google definition:
It may be the best reaction to the privacy and data collection concerns that are mainstays in headlines now. When you have your own SNL skit you know you’ve made it.
Some days you just don’t have it in you.
You’re tired and can’t find the motivation. The extreme ups and downs have taken their toll. You’re burnt out.
But you need to push through and keep going.
Being burnt out sucks. The only thing worse, though, is staying burnt out.
One option is to take a break. Step away from your work – figuratively or even literally – and let your mind and body recoup. This is great for severe cases, such as after wrapping up a huge project.
However sometimes it’s just another Monday, lacking the excitement from a few days ago the prior week. And if you took a break every time this happened you’d be working just as often as you weren’t.
So the next time your week starts off slow here are some tips to help you get through the funk:
After a long three-day weekend like this past one it’s common for Tuesday to feel a bit dreary.
If you find yourself feeling unproductive today try some of these tips to stay productive while your mind rests, so that you’ll (hopefully) soon be back at 100%.
Mobility Live Atlanta 2014 prep is in full swing.
If you missed the inaugural event in 2013 you can expect 1,000+ attendees packing three different venues in midtown for two days of mobile tech strategies, innovations and standards.
Helping out with the Future Forward track we’re narrowing down a list of possible topic ideas that are “beyond the horizon” in mobility. This means we’re looking at mobility trends that are only now emerging and poised to be major market forces 5+ years from now.
How can you provide high quality support without being too expensive or disproportionately time consuming compared to the other parts of your small business? As a reminder, new startups have millions of things to do and support rarely warrants more than 5-10% of a founder’s focus.
Brian Cervino supports 4,000,000 users at Trello by himself. Wow – now that’s not just link bait but a fricking impressive number.
Here’s the baffling thing. His toolset includes Help Docs, Email Support, In-App Support and Google Analytics. For the most part these are basic tools and processes. No insult intended, it’s just that I’m guessing any startup that’s gone through their first firestorm knows about most of these.
Email has it pretty bad. Who doesn’t love to hate on email?
On Friday Fred Wilson joined in with a Fun Friday conversation about why we hate email.
I was talking with an old friend yesterday about how much we all hate email. So I thought we could spend friday at AVC collectively hating on email.
AVC is a must follow daily blog and I agree with 99% of Fred’s posts. But I’m just not convinced here – is email really the problem??
Ever used a productivity app that everyone seems to rave about, yet when you give it a try it falls way flat of your expectations?
Perhaps it’s too cumbersome to use, or you spend more time filing, filtering and organizing your tasks instead of actually doing anything. Or maybe you find yourself wondering:
How is this any different than before?!?
Technology and government don’t always mix.
After all, I recall registering BlueFletch a few years ago and the Georgia Secretary of State website recommend I use Netscape to complete our corporate registration (and yes, this was after 2008).
At the 2014 Great Wide Open conference Clay Johnson touched on this government technology gap a bit during the keynote. As he continued, one chart from his presentation has stuck with me over the past few weeks.
I’m out this week so no new post.
Instead here’s an article sent from a friend that reinforces the Aspire-Achieve-Do Goal setting technique posted a few weeks back.
Learn about your Instant Gratification Monkey and why you should avoid the Dark Playground – as if “the Dark Playground” doesn’t sound creepy enough as it is.
Spoiler alert: beating procrastination is about doing. Just start already, ok?!?
And don’t try to tackle the whole project at once. Break it up into small little morsels and begin by laying a single brick, one at a time.
No one “builds a house.” They lay one brick again and again and again and the end result is a house
Thanks to Wait But Why for the off week content.
Fridays at BlueFletch are the best by far. The team is back from client sites, we’ll grill out for lunch, and the office happy hour isn’t far off. Fridays are also a chance to teach and learn with the rest of the team.
BlueFletch(ers?) employees give a couple lunch & learn presentations throughout the year. Some are very work specific, such as the latest on Android. Some are just fun, like learning how to actually use that fancy DSLR you got your wife.
I still remember when I was old enough to get a job and my Dad’s rules about jobs. Sure we had to get jobs, but not just any job. It needed to be a service job.
It had nothing to do with the money. He felt that everyone could benefit from a little time on the other side of the counter at some point in their life. Waiting tables, working the McDonald’s cash register, cleaning cars at the local Waterway…
See the thing is, customers have a habit of being needy, irrational, demanding and more. Learning to work directly with these customers teaches communication, empathy, and sales skills no school education can replicate.
I still genuinely enjoy talking to customers – probably too much so as I should be spending more time elsewhere. But it’s an activity I feel strongly about and so wanted to share how I do it.
