mental masturbation, tech stack review, law of diminishing returns, iterations

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The the best marketing is when you can stack yourself against the competition, airing out your weaknesses knowing that the people who want those things aren’t your people. Then, honk the horn on your strengths and have the right people come running.

This article here doesn’t do that at all, they just serve themselves up on the platter as best accounting tech for small business.

Some other Saas suggested: Productivity: Grammarly, Trello, Calendly, Sedja. I’ve not heard of Sedja, or used Candedly. I use Grammarly, (as in I paid for it) I’ve tried to use Trello (it’s me not them).

I like Grammarly. I like that it works in browser, seems hard to use natively (but my keyboard is always in another language).

Trello I like well enough, I come and gone from it many times. It’s great for team work and very beautiful.

Marketing: they suggest includes Hubspot, Buffer, Canva and Survey Monkey. I would consider all of these brands very established and well situated in their markets. Canva and Survey Monkey I would recommend to anyone ever. They both have free options that are excellent, and premium that offer significant value.

Hubspot and Buffer are both excellent choices. Depending on your business needs, there are comparable options that could offer a different selection.

I find there are some products where there are clear winners to me, and others where it’s hard to choose what to use because the competition is so similar, which comes down to personal taste, or what you desire more of if there is a trade off.

Different strokes for different folks.

DigitalxVisuals is a marketing and strategy company which offers web and graphic design that reflects your brand.

That sounds like you if you were words on a page.

That looks like the font version of you.

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Determining the point of diminishing returns has been an interesting project, because I am trying to determine whether more overtime is contributing to more product or not.

What is production’s point of diminishing returns, ie. how much overtime/people and the ship becomes inefficient? At what point do non conformances increase? Safety incidents? Illness/absences? Potential constraints beyond Human Resources that contribute to the constraint: machine shop, paint line, crane capacity, shift schedule… Interesting problem, that has been fun to work on.

What problems are you looking into?

A snappy little post on the law of diminishing returns, with some Henry Ford knowledge drops.

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A manta that I live by: “I do the best I can with the information I have.”

And as I get new information, I can make new decisions. And the faster I make a decision, the faster I can make new decisions.

Which means iterate faster, and can move faster, and can pivot faster.

Don’t get hung up on ego, have a north star that acts as a lighthouse and always to the right thing for the long game.

To be clear, fast does not mean sloppy. My second mantra is, “Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.”