I'm in the UK for the next month or so for work and family, jamming about showing up consistently and things I plan to try to not fall off on critical daily routines for Lunch Pail Labs. If you have any tips would love to he…
Some of the brilliance of transparent storytelling and building in public is not only the building an audience affects, it turns anything into a game. I ran into this packy article that describes this phenomenon well and ref…
Noticing helps us be more creative, find flow, and spot new trends. Unfortunately, we live in an age of distraction where the ability to be present is often lost. Jamming about some exercises to get better at paying attentio…
It's this week in review episode ( here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (3/05/22 - 3/11/22)
Many popular business/product frameworks are inspired by concepts in completely different areas of study. For example, phenomena with Meerkat inspired Andrew Chen’s atomic networks in the Cold Start Problem, game theory ins…
If you’re building a product it’s likely that you’re trying to change some behavior (ie switching from a competitor product, trying a new process). Fogg's behavior model provides a framework for changing behavior.
In traditional software development, an opinionated framework gives you guard rails, starter code, and optimizes your path. I think there's a ton more opportunity for opinionated no-code tools, which will also make no-code e…
Recently read an every.to article about why we're not doing creative work . The author talks about two phases of creativity, exploration, and execution. In this episode, I jam about creative exploration as a practice and res…
It's this week in review episode ( here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (2/25/22 - 3/04/22)
Recently ran into this happiness lab podcast episode about fighting the feeling of languishing (the tldr is the solution is flow). I've had a few more days than usual that feel like a slog and I think this was a good reminde…
Today's episode is inspired by a convo yesterday and is all about different frameworks for prioritizing ideas and products (jamming about the Moscow method, kano model, value cost quadrant, and RICE scoring).
I just finished Company of One by Paul Jarvis, a book about staying small. Jamming in this episode about ideas from the book and how they relate to Lunch Pail Labs
It's the weekly, week in review episode ( here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (2-21/22 - 2/25/22)
A lot of success is doing the obvious thing for a long period of time but it can be hard to know when to pivot or keep going the course. I ran into a product habit article about pivots and resonated with the approach. TLDL; …
Had a fun conversation last Saturday with no-code 45 about getting started with no-code. There are 100s of no-code tools so it can be overwhelming to choose which tool to start with. Jamming on some no-code archetypes and to…
I spent January and part of February in ship 30 for 30 cohorts. I've gotten a few questions about what I thought about writing every day and the experience in general so thought I'd share for folks who are considering joinin…
An underrated benefit of no-code, especially for non-technical makers, is that because the investment to build is relatively lower, a micro exit can be an excellent outcome for a product. Jamming about exiting, where it migh…
It's the weekly, week in review episode ( here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (2-14/22 - 2/18/22)
I'm having more conversations with early founders on their MVPs and what they think is required. I ran into the riskiest assumption test recently, which I will help guide these conversations in the future.
More riffing on the software stack as the firm and the operational stack for Lunch Pail Labs. Here are the tools mentioned loom for asynchronous updates and demos notion.so for task management, knowledge bases, and client wo…
Revisiting Lunch Pail Labs content approach for 2022 now that we've clarified a new infinite game . Jamming about that, marketing as education and content experiments for the meantime.
Recently ran into the full quote of the popular jack of all trade adage ("jack of all trades is a master of none, but better than a master of one") as well as what it means to be t-shaped . Jamming on Lunch Pail's infinite …
