I know you guys like my cute socks.
This was taken in our new office! Never have I thought that I would go back to working in an office again. But here's a long ass essay to make up for missing last week haaaaa
Back when I resigned from my last job to pursue streaming, I felt great. No more clocking in everyday, going through stupid ass jams, and leaving late. (Cause I used to stream after Im done with work in the office, sometimes I still continue working after stream ends)
Then after roughly 2 years ish of so called "freedom", it started to feel like I'm working 24/7. Everyday I wake up, I sit infront of my monitor until the day ends. There was no separation between work and rest.
I question my productivity, I keep asking myself why am I not doing enough or why did I do more back then than now. It was so damaging I would sometimes just break down.
Fast forward to the last year, starting this new journey with my team. It was hectic af not gonna lie, and I feel like I don't sleep or rest at all. Cause my resting place IS my work place and I'll be rooted on my chair the whole day and I still feel like work isn't done.
And now after a year of hard work and alot of crying, seeing how everyone's hard work paid off, and how we finally have an office feels pretty damn good.
I felt that I'm back on track alittle. I can start doing more things like how I used to. And most importantly, and I cannot stress this enough that having the presence of the team physically really boosted my morale alot. Comms were much faster and no more misreading emotions or feelings in text. Texting is so fkn tiring sometimes but I'll talk about that another time.
The line between work and rest is finally drawn. I could come home and abit of me time.
TLDR, Working from home ain't for me. I thought it was a good idea but nah man. Plus my new office is comfy xd
That's all from me for today. Enjoy your weekends guys 💕 Remember to stay safe and wash yer damn hands. And take care of your mental health.
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[Paul Graham and The Lesson to Unlearn]
I started off this morning reading an essay by Y Combinator Founder Paul Graham about how students in schools are being taught the wrong things -- namely, to win at tests, to prove they are competitive.
The link to entrepreneurship? Graham believes that young founders who are just starting out think that the key to becoming a successful founder is to somehow trick people into believing in you.
He points to a series of discussions he typically has when young entrepreneurs come to office hours to talk about raising money or "being noticed".
He says they come up with hare-brained ideas like "launching on a Tuesday" because Tuesday is when you are most likely to get noticed.
Graham wonders why are these founders making things complicated, instead of just working on a great product that people will love.
"Why did founders tie themselves in knots doing the wrong things when the answer was right in front of them? Because that was what they'd been trained to do. Their education had taught them that the way to win was to hack the test. And without even telling them they were being trained to do this. The younger ones, the recent graduates, had never faced a non-artificial test. They thought this was just how the world worked: that the first thing you did, when facing any kind of challenge, was to figure out what the trick was for hacking the test. That's why the conversation would always start with how to raise money, because that read as the test. It came at the end of YC. It had numbers attached to it, and higher numbers seemed to be better. It must be the test."
This makes me think about things like "Growth hacking," which is not a real thing. It's a mnemonic device that some people in Silicon Valley came up with because they know it attracts young people who believe that marketing is something you do to "hack" the attention of people that leads to growth.
These young founders would soon learn if they were marketing employees of any corporate brand with a digital presence, that these "hacks" were already being done, as long ago as 30 years ago.
But why is the allure of the hack so compelling? Back to Graham's point, everyone who is being taught is also being conditioned. The distance between knowledge building and working on real problems that use that knowledge is huge.
Being a founder, in my opinion, is truly about finding a passion for something and then making a solution built out of rules that resonate in other people's hearts in minds. In other words, it's working with other people, communicating with them, and building a solution for them that not only fixes a problem they have, but inspires them to live a better life.
You do that with three skills, I think:
1. Communicating your own thoughts about the problem to a person experiencing a problem
2. Listening to their response with the intention to understand
3. Working hard until you get the real answer
In doing so, there is no hackable way to solve their problem. You have to continually "quest" for the solution, by building and failing, and building and failing. The failing is the key point.
According to Graham, we are taught that the solution to everything is to be perfect at getting the grade, to prove we are smart.
In fact, out in the real world, we are only really learning when we are applying a solution to a problem, seeing it fail, and then asking deeper questions about how to get it right.
For founders, the spirit of learning is in getting it right. That takes a really long time. Before you try to get noticed by investors, by the media, by anyone you need to get noticed by the customer who has a real problem, and has also failed in solving it.
The true test of entrepreneurship is whether or not can you learn in a way that teaches other people, too.
On December 16, we close applications for AW#20, an accelerator class that is devoted to blockchain and AI founders. You can apply here: http://bit.ly/2rxLzLi
Source material
http://paulgraham.com/lesson.html
Doug Crets
Communications Master, AppWorks Accelerator
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【5 Tips for Getting Past the "Trough of Sorrow"】
You've just quit your corporate job to set off on your startup dream. Your idea is truly revolutionary. The gap in the market is just so painfully obvious to you. Once you pull together some people and roll out your product/service, the sales will surely come flooding in.
But then you launch. Less than stellar results. No matter, false starts are normal, after all no one ever said entrepreneurship was easy. Just talk to more customers, tweak a few features, and eventually product-market fit (PMF) will come.
Weeks turn into months, months turn into years and customer traction has still been lackluster, at best. Your co-founder ditched you in pursuit of a more stable job. You're starting to run out of money. Prospective investors have all turned a cold shoulder. You log onto facebook and see your friends and family living their best lives. You start questioning why you ever chose to go down this path while toiling away at your code.
Welcome to the "Trough of Sorrow"--the period in which the rose colored glasses come off and founders embrace the harsh realities of launching their own business. After now having over 1,000 founders pass through AppWorks Accelerator, here a 5 tips to help weather through the trough:
1. Realize that creating a completely new product that customers want and love to use is incredibly hard--and it's normal. There's a multitude of risk factors working against your favor, whether it's competitive, regulatory, people, macro, etc. Don't let the seemingly endless sea of rejections affect your core self-worth.
2. Not every idea will work out, in fact most don't. Out of every 100 ideas, you can assume only 1 will have any meaningful future. So, fail fast and move on.
3. Better to target 100 customers that LOVE your product over 1000 loose followers. Those 100 customers will become your brand ambassadors and spread the word.
4. Fire bullets before cannonballs. Material product iterations are incredibly time consuming and costly. Use tactical strategies to test the market and validate your hypothesis before doubling down.
5. Be among a community of like-minded peers such as AppWorks. Entrepreneurship is lonely, particularly during tough times. Being in the presence of others who are going (or have gone) through exactly the same thing can be incredibly motivating and get you through the nights.
Inspired by a16z partner Andrew Chen's essay: https://andrewchen.co/after-the-techcrunch-bump-life-in-the-trough-of-sorrow/
-Jun Wakabayashi
AppWorks, Analyst
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