Blogs
on October 6, 2025
Rules: no speech except to ask "what problem?"; handwriting only; red marker axes any duplicate angle. At minute 27 pin cards on a wall, cluster by verb (not noun), kill clusters with fewer than three entries. Remaining 18–22 cards are your haul; 70 % survive first feasibility filter next day.
Keep the original filename: if the old note is called lecture3-electrostatics.pdf, name the upload precisely the same. The service treats it as a revision, not a new object, so embeds in Notion keep intact.
Batch hack: highlight up to 100 items → Shift+Z → add to a new collection → apply viewer-level permission once, then save the list as .csv; the third column holds the trimmed links ready for your CMS or mailing script.
When the bell rings, run a 30-minute retro. Collect just three numbers: build time, defect count, user-task success. Plot them on a living dashboard; trends over six sprints predict future pain with seventy-eight percent accuracy. Lock the next no-edit window while adrenaline is high—lessons evaporate after 24 h, so schedule while scars are open.
Wrap up by writing a single sentence that combines: (1) the dominant industry in the money layer, (2) the edge skill, (3) the average fee rounded up to the nearest 5 k. Example: "I build motion-driven brand systems for fintech startups, starting at 25 k." Paste it above the fold on your About page before the timer hits zero.
Limit the stack to four tools: $79 Bonsai, $15 Zapier starter, $0 Stripe, $19 Calendly. Total monthly overhead $113—a single hour billed—while winning back 15+ hours otherwise lost to manual chasing.
Pre-swap: each participant scribbles three "unchallenged beliefs" about their own role. Post-swap, check how many survive.
Track micro-delays: access lockouts, sign-off chains. Scale the seconds by 250 working days to reveal the bleeding.
Log acronym confusion: count how many buzzwords the swapper stopped to decode. If the count tops five, the wiki needs rewriting.
Hold a 15-minute retro at 4:45 p.m.. Ask: "Which hand-off snapped?" Attack the worst trio for repair within 48 h.
Charge 15 % of the total project fee for any revision round that appears after both signatures. State this in the same clause. The penalty has cut revision rounds from 4.2 to 1.1 average across 63 brand packages in the last 18 months.
Chart the Skill Gap Between You and Your Partner in 15 Minutes
Fire up a shared Google Sheet, label column A "Task", B "Me", C "Ally", D "Delta". Jot 20 core activities your joint venture calls for (XD, cold email, SQL, TikTok ads, contract redlines, Kanban, etc.). In the next five minutes each of you scores 0–4 for every row: 0 = never tried, 4 = can teach. Conditional-formatting turns any gap ≥2 cells red—those are your bottlenecks.
<img src="https://burst.shopifycdn.com/photos/american-desert-highway.jpg?width=746&format=pjpg&exif=0&iptc=0"; style="max-width:400px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;" alt="" />Swap Roles for One Day to Stress-Test Weak Assumptions
Schedule a day-long trade: the strategist becomes the agile coach, the experience head owns stakeholder calls, the finance boss writes user stories. Record every blocker; if a task takes >30 min, flag the underlying assumption that slowed the gears.
Crack the source files of every green-row piece. Tag each asset by core skill: motion. Count frequency. Any skill that shows up in ≥70 % of the money layer but ≤30 % of your total uploads is your under-advertised edge. List it in bold on a sticky note.
Section Field limit Copy template Keyword density
About 2600 chars "Crafted 40+ Snapchat lenses, 2 went viral>1M plays. Stack: Blender → Lens Studio → A/B on device. Cut iteration time 35%. Hunting for AR/VR roles in gaming." Tool name every 42 words, metric every 26.
Experience 2000/role Start each bullet with a digit: "3-fold speed render using Redshift RTX. Kept $18k cloud budget Q4." 2 metrics per 3 lines.
Skills 50 max Order by search volume: "Motion Graphics" 82k/mo, "After Effects" 75k, "Cinema 4D" 62k. Delete anything Google Drive File Direct Link</a>, JPG, PNG, GIF, PDF plus the first 90 characters of each message and pastes them into a new Miro board named after the thread. All assets stay at native resolution; text becomes sticky notes stamped with the poster’s @handle and timestamp.
Map the Split-Second Moment a Client Chooses to Come Back
Install a 3-pixel event on the "thank-you" page that fires only when the same email appears two times within half a year; the timestamp difference is the real repurchase lag. Export the list, filter on SKU and lag, and you will see six in ten of repeat orders cluster at 27, 58 or 91 days–those are your behavioral tripwires.