How to Start a Two-Bit Operation: Small Business Tips

It’s Friday at 5 am and we just wrapped up our second in-person working session, just in time to catch Justin’s ridiculously early flight. Like the first one in Chicago, this session lasted for two weeks, which is about the maximum amount of time you want to spend heads-down, 24/7 on a project to [...]

1 can of diet coke
1 can of diet mountain dew
a bunch of chicken thighs
lots of spinach
ling ling dumplings (from costco)

Put all that together and you get a dinner for 2 guys not too interested in cooking. You might think that the soft drinks were for drinking. They were in fact used for cooking. [...]

We’re now doing the second round of 2-week working sessions in beautiful Kirkland, WA - much warmer than Chicago! We’re still coding away…staying motivated by high energy music from artists like Scooter and other Euro dance tracks.
Random comment: According to John, when you flush a toilet, the splash generated by the flushing action [...]

So as anyone who’s tried working in distributed teams knows, working virtually can quickly turn into virtually working - all the motions but not all the output. It can be particularly difficult for collaborative and time-sensitive projects such as ours. (You can read all about it in a book co-written by Rob Oyung, [...]

When you see the sun rising over Lake Michigan, of course. Enjoy this nice, protected lake view from Justin’s window. We’ll share the beer-themed ones some other time.

-JL