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this is Justin, this very liberating for me for waking up in the morning and coming up with an idea and doing something about it and making it different each day. And I sort of want to systemize the process for making that happen. And here's an attempt at actually doing that. So there's things I think about that are like fully broken, the one that's on my mind right now is the hiring process. I left my company unofficially end of September and officially end of December, and for a long period of time had an interest of going back and working into a company working with with another company. The problem is, or the challenge I faced was like the process for getting hired, you know, it could take like six months to eight months to really find the right position.
And maybe it takes less than that, if you put it in wouldn't be a pleasurable process, I'd be spending six months to eight months in my life, going through the hiring process to get a job that we don't even know what it's going to be when you actually get in there. Because no job is, is what it actually would actually is when you get there, that's not necessarily a bad thing. So the return on investment for going through some work, going through some jobs is going for jobs is a little bit challenging. So what I did is I started doing some consulting, and art and working with projects with people that I trusted, and that trusted me and I believed in the vision.
First company I've worked with and currently working with is nonfiction research, I believe in the thesis of the work that they do, I like the people that are involved with it. And that is something that's growing. I also looked for products that I couldn't necessarily do without, you know, to be able to work with and to potentially work with and then started having conversations with companies that are doing that that sort of work. The other thing from occurred, but but that doesn't that's like a middle a little bit of a unique position myself, because I do have the opportunity for some flexibility, but most people don't so great that I can solve a problem for myself creatively.
But now how do you start resolving problems? at a proper level? That's what I want to start working on. So from a recruiting perspective, the best thing that I have found right now is a tool. CEO, his name is Tim Connors. Think about that. Correct. And it's called use Perl. And we're connected on Twitter. And so yep, and I'll correct that. If that's wrong. And it's texting, right, you sign up for a text list text back to find out what you're looking for, and then makes a match, potentially now I signed up for we had a conversation again, the work that I do is pretty niche. So I haven't heard there's not I haven't heard anything back around it. But it's reduce the cognitive load, right? It's not like it's not a big headache to. It's not a big headache to be able to go through the process with them. So even though nothing has happened, I'm not wasting cycles and a ton of energy waiting. So I think that's a that's a positive disrupter in that right direction.
I also saw Justin Metro, the CEO of Yac, started something I think called secondhand hires, I'm doing this stuff from memory, I should have better references, but I'll share the references secondhand hires, which is great for people who don't get hired inside of a company. They can get referred to somebody else, right? They're not the exact fit or they want to do something but there's no match in the moment then. Then, yeah, they have, they can get referred out another interesting disrupter, right for that type of work.
So I've been thinking about like the cycles, right? Like there's things that are broken, or major pain points with people, there's tools that aim to disrupt what I do, as I experienced myself, I try them, then they gain some momentum. That's key. And I think that's where I like to bring a lot of people to these new things to start building the momentum, right. And then they grew a critical mass. And I think about like Yac in this place, right? yaks in a place where they've got momentum, they don't have critical mass, it's not common for people to think about meetings. And as you know, asynchronous audio right now, then they can become an alternative new normal, and they become a category ruiner. And I took Yac has been a category ruiner. For me, like it's ruined the ways of going back to a normal way of doing meetings.
Amazon is great as a category row in it, right? They're just like, they ruin the shopping experience. Like for a good you know, they ruin the shopping experience for doing it any other way. So I think that's one of the cycles that you go through. So I think it's important, at least for me, personally, to experiment, you've got to try a lot of things to find those things that that like this could potentially have legs and my experience personally is I get really excited about something I'm on day two of rally like I woke up this morning. It's like I can't get involved with I can't get I can't get involved. I get really excited about rally and I want to like check my portfolio and I want to see if there's other coins that can support.
I applied for a coin myself. So I'm really excited about them now. It will I'll know within two weeks or not. If my excite meant, maintained, it's nothing to do with them, right? It just has to do with me like if it maintains So, but most things don't even get to that excitement phase, right. But if they don't even get to that excitement phase, they probably don't even have a chance where it's like, not even seitan phase like we're at, like focus on it completely, but you want to use it over and over again. So I'm excited to share about this and pontificate. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to put this out, this is going to be a Yac or a Yac. Right now I'm going to translate into auto become a podcast, a little bit of a blog post.
And then I'm actually thinking about starting to tokenize these ideas to see, to start to take the temperature of people are actually interested in working in some of these things. I said a whole bunch of different things and just seeing what feedback they start to spark and then tomorrow, we'll either advance the kind of the ideas or what are the ideas that's in here, or we'll start new and now new probably won't be a completely set of different ideas, but it'll be a different cut on some of the similar ideas. So have an amazing day. And thanks so much.
15 JAN 2021 · See more episodes at HTTP://www.jftalks.com
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Hey this is Justin Friday morning January 15, and just got the inspiration in Russell challenges one funnel away. 30 day challenge right now and we started going with accountability partners on Monday, and I reached out to a guy just to say hello, my name is Steven Shapiro, who does a lot of the same work I do inside of the innovation space and inside of that he shared with me that he was able to produce a book in a couple of weeks. Two weeks and I've been wanting to write a book for a while. I think it is a I speak about a lot that books are people's access like like you need some expertise to be able to write a book and it is, and it also takes some work to get a book over aligned way that way that's consumable He's like, Look, I know how to get a book in your hands in two weeks to be able to start having people, you know, read it and edit it and look at it and all that good stuff.
I was like cool let's do it so we started that yesterday and we're off to the work. I had a meeting with my friend Brennan Decker yesterday and I asked him at the end of it I was like look like if I were to write a book just for you based on what you know about me, what would you, what would it be called and he said shipped shit, and it's just like means a couple of different things like ship it like put it out the door and I know that's like MVP and there's a lot of language about that. But what I mean is like really ship shit I've sent audio message out there they're complete blanks. I've said audio messages, I've sent podcasts out there that are like you can't even hear what's actually going on the audio quality on this one might not be good I'm just required recording this on my iPhone right now. And when people actually hear this in the Ross forum, it might not be good.
When you see this like in the podcast form the transcripts can have typos in it I'm going I'm recording this on otter directly and it's not going to make sense, originally as is, but I'm putting it out there because if it is if it lives as an idea rattling around inside the head, it doesn't do anything and it doesn't make a difference it's just those ideas rattling around inside the head, they just keep on looping around. And if we have multiple things that are occupying our mind at this point in time we're completely failing and getting paralyzed so I put my ideas out there and they're done, and then one of three things happens.
Maybe it's one of four things I don't know what the number is. I put it out there and something amazing happens like somebody listens to it and it changes their lives in some way i'm not saying like they're live is 100% transformed and everything's different and, you know, say pigeons and that does get released and all that stuff but it has some impact on them. That's great. People listen to it and just another thing that they do during the day which is cool right people are gonna waste some time on some other stuff. Nobody listens to it. that's really good feedback right nobody listens to it.
Is there a distribution issue, are we just putting out real crap that people are working on AI and then what happens there there's from my perspective. That's exciting. I want to do more work with that. If we want to do more work with that we move into a sprint and Sprint's can be five minutes right like ship shit right what can you get done in five minutes, then improve that thing that you worked on a little bit, and then maybe you spend 25 minutes 25 minutes to significance that's the Pomodoro method for me that's the amount of time that I could focus on one task. You know, for a period of time just the way that I work and then it was just like at that point in time if you get some momentum you move on to something else.
But the reality is, or you move on and do more work with it. But the reality is 99% of the people, 99% of those ideas that are out there aren't necessarily going to make a difference, out there in the world if they're not going to be beneficial they're not going to be, you know, they're not going to be great, they're not going to be amazing. And they deserve to be moved on to but when you get the combination of the market wants this and people want this out in the world and it actually makes a difference out in the world it's something that you want to work on. That's where you know you have the Holy Grail but you're never gonna know what that thing is, until you actually put that out there so that's what the book is, and we're going to do, I'm going to put these things out here.
This is going to live in the podcast form. But I would love to write this collaborative with people and you know, if you are listening to this. I'm going to have a link on the podcast. The best way to get ahold of me again conversationally is on a platform called Yak yak.com why ac.com, forward slash Justin, F, and let me know what you're working on. If you know me personally, what do you think what should I be writing about and I want to write this book for people, specifically. And so yeah, this is it's January of 2021 right now, probably will at least first version sometime in February of 2021.
But yeah, let me know if you are seeing if you are hearing this hit me up on Yak yak.com forward slash Justin F and let's have a conversation, whether it's related to this book or let me know how I can help you and the stuff that you are working on.
30 APR 2020
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