Last year there was a proposal to set pricing limits on food. Here’s the thing, I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a grocery buyer negotiate pricing but it’s down to the 100th of a cent at times. Why? Scale. If you’r off on a purchase of a million+ watermellons that 100th of a cent can erode margins by a lot.
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Best Time to Build a Business is Now
Had a conversation with a friend the other day who works for a municipality. There is a software that they use, basically every county uses it. There’s one vendor for everyone. It’s a monopoly. Support is bad (days for the initial response), product is bad (still requiring windows 10 and haven’t began testing for deployment in windows 11), and prices are high (no market competition = high prices). The issue is anytime a new company begins to disrupt they buy them.
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The Journey So Far
Been talking about work and life. Wanted to present some stages for how this worked for me.
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College -> Worked full time while schooling full time. Worked flexible jobs so I could do school. I felt busy (laughable now). Developed several skills for post college career. Helped start a non-profit during this time that I worked in alongside my career for the next 12 years. Got my first 8-5 job 3 days after graduation due to work I was already doing and relationships I had formed. -
Work Life Integration
I’ve stopped thinking about how to balance work and life. In terms of work and life there is a transaction cost to what you want your life to look like. I think more of work life integration. Your work agreement with your employer can be viewed as
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Engineer Your Path from the End First.
I took some time off this past week. What basically added up to a long weekend, but it was needed. Made me think about work/life balance. I hear many people talking about the freedom they want with work. I don’t really think
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Money and Other Stuff
Last week I mentioned some conversations I had last week. One of them was a situation where a friend had a decision to make about two separate positions at different companies. In terms of comp package they were the same. My response?
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Wants, Relationships, Work
I had 4 separate conversations this past week with different individuals where the subject of clarifying your wants so that you can state them in a clear way came up as a subject of conversation.
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In and Out of The Box with Others
I keep finding this common thought as I interact with growing organizations. Everyone feels dumped on by other teams. It’s not necessarily a true thought. In fact, 99% of the time I find it’s not true at all after
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Don’t Overreact
“I’m just being honest” I’ve heard this too often as an excuse when someone is a jerk.
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The goal is not simply to be Authentic. Be Intentional and that takes restraint.
