I wrote up a bit more thoughts in my month one retro so
just focusing on the goals, time and life updates here.
Goals
| # |
Goal |
Grade |
| 1 |
Launch something! |
A- |
| 2 |
Send mailchimp to the world |
B- |
| 3 |
Actual market validation of placecards (talk to at least 10 people) |
A- |
| 4 |
Evaluate other ideas and narrow focus on one or two |
B+ |
- I shipped a v1 of my place card landing page.
- Posted in a few relevant places, but after about an hour of poking around kind of gave up.
I should probably be more proactive about getting it out there - have added taking another pass on this to this week’s goals.
- I’ve done a lot here. This is the subject of an upcoming post.
- I’ve decided to pursue commit stats, although I can’t claim to really have evaluated anything else. Just following my gut/momentum.
Time
Week 4 time breakdown
Time is continuing to look good!
The only anomaly this week is the 6 hours of “Dimagi” time - a category I created to track anything related to Dimagi
(the company I’m on sabbatical from).
This time was mostly preparing and giving a guest lecture at the University of Cape Town on ICT4D which was a lot of fun.
Other than that I was able to achieve my goal of narrowing focus on product ideas, with 16 hours on place cards and another 6 on commit stats.
I’d like to keep the focused product time above 20 hours for the next few weeks.
Life
This weekend was for hiking.
The highlight was a trip to Boomslang Cave - a massive cavern in the hills overlooking Kalk Bay.
The hike has a bit of everything - fantastic views, a bit of rock scrambling, and a lot of spelunking!
This might be my new favorite short hike in the area - an experience I think rivals Lion’s Head in it’s quality and uniqueness.
Here’s an instagram showing the cave exit - a 20 meter crawl on your hands and knees!
Till next week!
—Cory