Jan 30, 2010

How embracing constraints helped me break my 80 hour week.

Now that my business is putting a lot of time pressure on me, it’s harder to be dependable to my friends. Reading Rework helped me when I was working 70-80 hour weeks but wanted to support a friend who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s.

Books & collected practices

  • Peer Learning Is - a broad look at peer learning around the world, with a focus on practical program design
  • Mentor Impact - researched the practices used by the startup mentors that really make a difference
  • Decision Hacks - early-stage startup decisions distilled
  • Source Institute - open peer learning formats and ops guides, and our internal guide on decentralised teams