Random Insights, Ah-has & Re-has
For anyone who has stumbled onto this article, I’m am writing it for myself. Specifically, I recently discovered deepstash.com, and I’m using this article as a workaround to put my own ideas into Deepstash, so that I can use their platform to show them to me at a later time. We’ll see how it goes.
2021–03–06 — I played with LEGO a lot as a kid, and I think that still is a big factor in how I build solutions to problems today. I build things with simple, modular blocks (which Google Sheets, Airtable and Notion are very good for), and as I’m building, or as I’m using the Thing I Built, I make lots of small tweaks and changes. I like to throw thigns at the wall, and see what sticks. A more-polished term for this style might be Emergent Design.
2021–03–06 — When working on processes & systems, I have a strong affinity for Punk Rock Process or Cockroach Process. Stuff that’s very simple, made with rudimentary or easily-accessible building blocks (like Sheets or Excel), and which can survive and stay functional during the chaos of a fast-moving startup that’s full of busy & easily-distracted people.
2021–03–22 — Hacking on stuff — and especially stuff that I might use while travelling, or at a PAX or FIRST event — is a rabbithole where I can sink hours on tinkering and trying new ideas. This has been true, intermittently, for at least 4–5 years. I’m a sucker for trying to come up with a solution to these kinds of problems or situations, probably fueled by the belief that I’ll encounter them in the future. It’s definitely one of my personality quirks, and one that I can get frustrated with myself for. Seeing this as a labour of love, and a way to broaden my skills and familiar with more building blocks, may help lessen that self-judgement.
