Adioma - 12 Dec 2019

Random notes...

Just because I don't really have anywhere to say this: I like this note on Sales Contract Clauses.

These are credit unions with good interest rates: https://www.alternatives.org/ and https://www.meridiancu.ca/ - but am looking to National Bank for an investment portfolio.

This looks like it could be a good infographic tool, but not sure we need it internally or if we should be hiring someone to do this kind of work for us... (am thinking of infographics for how the app/buttons/odetect/responder work...) https://adioma.com/

Listening to Drugs Uncut podcast and the co-host (Kirsten) had a great turn of phrase about a couple of things:

"Naloxone is a drug that temporarily reverses the effects of an opioid overdose..." and

"initiatives that could be driven, but not delivered, by the taskforce..."

So simple and elegant.

12 Week Year

I'm in week 11 of my first full-on 12-week plan using the 12 week year system and while I've been unsuccessful (or will have been) in some of the goals, I'm probably about 80% of the way there for all of them. However, looking at the list of 10 potential goals that I wrote down at the beginning (and chose 5 from - one too many I think), I have definitely managed to prioritise. Which is a huge improvement. I effectively "said no" to 5 other huge goals that I know would have been a distraction or source of confusion/decision fatigue for me this whole time. That feels like a giant win from my point of view. It's also given me clarity that if I have "sales" as a goal - with more specifics - for the next 12 week period, our chances of making some sales will be much greater and even if we don't, we'll move so much further in that direction.

Practically speaking, I'm not sure that ClickUp is an improvement to my paper system. I think I might need to combine them - the weekly overview I was building on paper was quite powerful, whereas the totality of the task management in ClickUp is amazing.

Franchise, distributed teams, software licensing... wtfaw?

Listening to this podcast (Equal Care Coop on Tech Manchester) and wondering if the Buurtzorg model - widely heralded in future of organisational structure conversations - is a closer description of what we're aiming for than any other existing model. Distributed self-managed teams with a minimal level of HQ support. Key differences are: our teams would also be responsible for their own pay cheque and organisational structure (so no HR support), and they would be self-assembling based on their own understanding of skills needed (so no hiring restrictions because we're not hiring them), we're actually just providing software, training, other resources along those lines. (Which does sound, I realise as I type it, like a franchise.)