Inter-sections.net : Seven reasons to work for yourself

Comment on Seven reasons to work for yourself by Vikram

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:04:54 +0000

Hi x?

I found your blog from facebook. Though these are the advantages of working for yourself. The big issues are working alone and the immense discipline required to keep working on something everyday.

BTW, don’t know your name? Or what you are working on? Drop me a line. Will be cool to check out what you have been doing.

Vikram

Comment on Seven reasons to work for yourself by daniel

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:15:39 +0000

My name is Daniel. Now that you point it out, it’s right that I don’t list it anywhere :-) At the moment, I don’t want my full name or apps to be linked to this blog. I’ll “come out” sometime in the future, though.

About your question about the discipline, I’ll write an article about that. The gist of it, for me, is that there’s 2 problems to solve: getting up in the morning, and getting stuff done despite distractions.

For the first one, I found the best thing is to set up meetings in the early morning (e.g. I have meetings with our outsourcing firm several mornings each week, around 7am). Generally, when you have an appointment that you can’t miss, you get up. That’s the way it worked when I had a job, and it still works - just set up a constraint that requires you to be awake early.

As for getting stuff done, I found that simply listing out my tasks for the day in the morning went a long way towards boosting my productivity. I guess I just hate to have to copy the tasks again onto the following day :-) More details about that in my article about prioritisation: http://www.inter-sections.net/2007/09/06/harsh-prioritisation/

I’ll observe what other things I do and put it all into an article.

Daniel

Comment on Seven reasons to work for yourself by Giotto

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:03:59 +0000

Hey David!

It was strange to read that we have exactly the same lifestyle :) The mac, the gym, the tea, the music, the home-office, the “power nap”, the “to-do list for today”, all of these are the same for me :) Same thing with food. I’m doing the “rice, chicken, veggies” lifestyle because of the gym :) I wish my rails skills would be as high as my skill with cooking the chicken :)

I’m still having the problem of wasting a whole day even if I already know I can’t do any work today just after I got out of bed.

By the way, didn’t know where to post this so it goes here: just wanted to note that have great articles in your blog. I’ve read some of them and they were all great without exception. So keep up posting, I’ll definitely add this feed to my RSS reader.

Comment on Seven reasons to work for yourself by Giotto

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:44:54 +0000

I’m really sorry, I wrote your name wrong :)

It’s Daniel, not David :)

Comment on Seven reasons to work for yourself by daniel

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:13:45 +0000

Hi Giotto,

Thank you for your support. I’m very happy you like my articles - it may sound clichéed, but I enjoyed writing them too!

Daniel

Comment on Seven reasons to work for yourself by Niall

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:47:28 +0000

Where do you get your work?

Comment on Seven reasons to work for yourself by daniel

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:28:23 +0000

Niall: I started both of the companies that I work for. There’s been some opportunities to do some freelance work along the way, as well, but I’ve had to turn them down. After all, there are only so many hours in the day!

Daniel