Awareness & Empathy
Journal Entry
I haven’t felt sad or depressed in so long, like it feels so weird not feeling like getting up and not having an automatic smile on my face. Why do I feel this way? My head hurts all the time from sinus or whatever, but why am I not excited about waking up tomorrow? I don’t want to do a construction startup is that why? I don’t want to go to work and build things. I don’t want to clean dust, shovel snow and drill into walls. Is this where the startup before me stopped, is this the point at which they said okay, I’m tired of uncertainty let me get a job and enjoy life? Is this a genuine “I don’t want to do this moment” or am I just getting tired of this? One thing that saddens me is that I’m not reading or writing as much as I should be and it’s frankly making me feel like I’m not having any new ideas. I have to start reading and writing again I feel like it was truly a north star in my life. I could write out all my worries and let them breathe on paper and once I’ve seen the issue I could see how it can have a better ending than the way it’s going.
Awareness
I bash people that aren’t motivated and lazy, the same way I bash myself about being lazy, but a friend recently told me that awareness comes from God. Awareness is something that has “God/parent/someone/something” has to give you, because we aren’t living in a single player game. I am extremely thankful for being aware of myself and what I could do to get become better, but for those who aren’t it might not be their time yet. I bet there are so many things that I’m not aware I should be doing, however I don’t know what I don’t know. In this case all you can do is wait till you are more aware, and I’m not sure where that comes from.
Empathy
I learnt how to have more empathy. I feel like I definitely did some silverning to friends, instead of trying to relate to them and understand their plight.
(Shoutout Josh and Week of Welcome)
The LEAN STARTUP
The book is split into 3 parts
Vision
Start
Define
Learn
Experiment
Steer
Leap
Test
Measure
Pivot
Accelerate
Batch
Grow
Adapt
Innovate
As I’m reading this book I’ll be thinking of mistakes that common startups made and have that as list of mistakes that I will justify before making or avoid entirely
1. Start
Avoiding all forms of management pross and discipline leads to more chaos than success, the authors first startup faliures were of this kind.
Lean startup comes from Lean manufacturing revolution developed at Toyota
Lean startup is looking at progress through the eyes of validated learning (chap. 3)
Allow entrepreneurs to make testable predictions
Build -> Measure -> Learn -> (back to Build)
