Ah, the dreaded time of self-reflection.
It's uncomfortable because I'm forced to face the hard facts. When my brother brings up his concerns about how we're approaching our passions and our lives, I get turned off not by his tone or honesty, but rather by my inability to accept that I am indeed making very little progress. It's not him who is the problem, it's me.
At 26 I made a goal to find something that I can work on for a decade, and I think I may very well have found it... but I continue to struggle with this thing making very little progress (a pill that I refuse to swallow for some odd reason). It all makes me wonder if I am either thinking like I am stuck in 2006 (making products that have no use cases)... or, I am simply too impatient (Rome wasn't built in a day).
Both are equally bad.
So, perhaps this year's goal needs to shift slightly away from product development, and slightly towards team development. I need to find people who are enthusiastic about what I'm building, and even more so, enthusiastic about what this journey can become.
So, for this year the goals are;
It's uncomfortable because I'm forced to face the hard facts. When my brother brings up his concerns about how we're approaching our passions and our lives, I get turned off not by his tone or honesty, but rather by my inability to accept that I am indeed making very little progress. It's not him who is the problem, it's me.
At 26 I made a goal to find something that I can work on for a decade, and I think I may very well have found it... but I continue to struggle with this thing making very little progress (a pill that I refuse to swallow for some odd reason). It all makes me wonder if I am either thinking like I am stuck in 2006 (making products that have no use cases)... or, I am simply too impatient (Rome wasn't built in a day).
Both are equally bad.
So, perhaps this year's goal needs to shift slightly away from product development, and slightly towards team development. I need to find people who are enthusiastic about what I'm building, and even more so, enthusiastic about what this journey can become.
So, for this year the goals are;
- Have a team of at least 4 or 5 people who are working alongside me.
- (Hopefully) Get out of the city and find a better environment for ClassHill. Possibly Waterloo, Vancouver, Boston or California.
- Reach out to more users (professors included) to validate the Alpha version of the platform.
It took less than a minute to write these and will surely take no less than a year to achieve them. And this is what needs to be done, I'm sure of that. Writing more code, or making an app won't solve any problems any further.
With all this being said, the current state of economic/global shutdowns won't make this easy. Perhaps the shutdown is an opportunity on its own to gather my thoughts, refine them and then proceed with a plan that has a higher chance of working.
And with that, the road to 28 begins.
With all this being said, the current state of economic/global shutdowns won't make this easy. Perhaps the shutdown is an opportunity on its own to gather my thoughts, refine them and then proceed with a plan that has a higher chance of working.
And with that, the road to 28 begins.
