I taped this note to my monitor this morning:
Seems kinda lame that I would need to remind myself to do great work.
It’s easy for me to write myself stickies and create Google calendar alarms for stuff like “Taxes,” “Book flight to NYC,” or even client deadlines.
Am I really going to forget to do those? Unlikely.
The thing I should be more concerned about is remembering to create the kind of work that matters. I get so buried in the day-to-day details of running a business that sometimes I forget to work on those great things I set out to do early on.
Oh, look – here’s some great work now…
Tzaddi Gordon and I are teaming up to create some great work. Tzaddi runs ThriveWire, where she creates “kick-ass, grown-up web sites YOU can update.” I love that and I was thrilled when we figured out a way to do something awesome together.
We’re still in development so I don’t want to spill the entire can of beans yet, but we’ll be offering a semi-custom WordPress web site package. Every day that we work on it, things get clearer and, well, awesomer.
Collaborating on this work of art has been a great experience for me. Tzaddi and I are very different in our approaches to solving problems and creating ideas, which is just perfect. If we thought about everything the same, the point of collaboration would be lost.
See, Tzaddi is fantastic at culling our project notes into easily-accessible docs that we share on Google. I have a very strange way of drawing my notes in a sketchbook that’s too big to scan. It turns out we need both methods (and two heads) to get this done.
Doing great work is why I started this circus in the first place. Creating it with really smart, creative people is a bonus.
Stay tuned. Tzaddi and I will be letting people in on our work of art very soon. Stay tuned here, at ThriveWire, or follow us on Twitter: sparkyfirepants tzaddi
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