Inspiration

How-do-you-feel sessions between founders

Today I had a pretty long 1:1 session with my co-founder and CTO, @arnklint. We discussed our plans ahead but also generally how we are feeling. This is something we are pretty bad at. It’s easily happen that both of of us are so focused on our tasks at work so we rarely take any time to aimlessly …

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Goals or not

Leo Babauta and Tim Ferris discuss if goals is good or bad for us as individuals.

Leo think that the problem with goals is that it’s the end point, if we pursue a goal, and regardless of what we learned from it, or how much fun we had on the road, we feel that we have failed anyway and move forward.

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My first iPhone app is open source

I’ve made an iPhone app. I wanted to learn the basics and experiment with trial & error and understand the principles around app/iOS development. I experimented with Xcode, did some programming in Objective C to reconnect to the interface after events based on the data and user input. …

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A follow up on my new habits

A few months ago I started with some new habits.

You can read about them here: Good Habits

The routines

  • Go to bed in reasonable time (before 11pm)
  • No social media before 8am or after 10pm
  • No snoozing
  • Write daily
  • No second screen when watching TV
  • Meditate for 2 minutes every day

Routines would …

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Breathe and subtract

Are you stressed about what to eat for dinner? Worried about tomorrow’s meeting? Not had time to work out today? Or should you pick up the kids at daycare? 3 minutes to the next train?

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Getting real

37signals, which recently changed their name and focus and is now called Basecamp, is a relatively small company with a great spread. They began as a web agency in 1999 and a few years later began launching their own products. Recent years have one of the founders, Jason Fried, written some books, …

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Arnold: Life's 6 Rules

I came across this video today, a really inspiring rendition of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s speech on his 6 rules to success. And speaking of trust your gut feeling (which I wrote about yesterday) Arnold’s first rule is: trust yourself.

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Entrepreneur = to undertake

I’ve been running own companies in almost five years now, but have never really used the word entrepreneur to describe myself. Don’t think it suits me, or rather, it has felt so trite. At the same time I haven’t found any other good descriptive term that fit.

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