How to organize your time when your startup is your side-hustle

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Main topic: organizing your time


This will be interesting because we’re coming at it from two
different perspectives:

Jon works full-time

Justin runs his own business




What’s hard about it?

Jon: I’m other people’s boss. Running the tech team at
CAH/Blackbox. So people are depending on me. Blackbox is also
a startup that requires a good deal of product decisions day
to day. Both are exciting so it’s hard to juggle sometimes!

Justin: I’m my own boss. I tell myself what to do. The
hardest part right now is Transistor isn’t making money, but
it’s the funnest thing to work on.




How do you overcome those obstacles?

Jon: Two separate Pivotal Trackers and Apple Reminders
lists. if I can think of something for Transistor during work
I just throw in the list for later. I have to smart about not
doing Transistor during the work day and letting my team
down. Transistor is mostly relegated to after hours and
weekends. 

Justin: notepad, I split it into two sections:
“MegaMaker” and “Transistor.” I have a Trello for MegaMaker
that tracks what my contractors are doing.




What does your ideal day look like?

Jon: ideally I’m only working on Transistor  in
reality, wake up a bit early and see if I missed anything
overnight for Transistor. errors, support emails, etc. Go do
the fulltime thing. take a break after work to work out or
make dinner and then work on Transistor at night a couple of
times of week. Ideally I deploy at least something to
Transistor everyday.

Justin: I’ve realized I really get energy from
interacting with people. I recently did this “Strengths
finder” test and activities like doing sales, doing demos,
interacting with customers, writing, making videos and
podcasts, hacking on ideas, building prototypes… these all
play to my strengths.




Tips for listeners:


Define the end result first:“what does
your ideal day look like” is a really important
question. 


Distinguish between big milestones and daily
tasks.


Have a way of organizing tasks. Try a
bunch!


Contextual zones. Have a different place
to work on your side-hustle.





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