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Richard Shepherd
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Nope, never ever feel guilty for 'me time'. For side projects, assign the time you are able to give to that project (Thursday nights for example), maybe it's between 6am and 8am before work? But never ever compromise on 'you time'.
Seen it happen, for your mental and physical health look after it.
How do you manage to relax without feeling guilty for doing that?
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Richard Shepherd
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Dear Product Hunters,
We are Peter and Richard, makers of Memo.
Email is too formal and texting + instant message is getting distracting. It's hard to have deep and meaningful conversations online with the people we care about. Memo brings modern features to long-form messaging to achieve this.
We are massively inspired by Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism and wanted to solve this problem...
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Richard Shepherd
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What Cotter are doing for authentication is marvelous. An accessible tool for developers to easily add password-less auth to their websites is definitely needed and it's best that it's a focused product like this instead of always trying to do 'checkout' as well.
Cotter No-Code Passwordless Login
A simple login form for your no-code websites
Richard Shepherd
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Why do people not reply to the questions I ask in email?
When I am emailing, it feels like interviewing a question-dodging politician. Like my emails are pseudo-interviews with that stereotypical official that says 'I think the question you're really asking is...' and avoids the actual answer at all costs!
But surely in an email, if you ask a question is it not reasonable to expect an answer? Why then do I so rarely get one?
In my quest to become...
Richard Shepherd
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Use a tool like Memo that respects your focus and does not notify you or use the evil red dot to spike your attention. https://sendmemo.app/mission I am hell bent on getting back notification control, it ruined me a while back.
I'd love to talk to you more about this.
How do you handle notification fatigue?
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Is frustration allowed? frustration with existing solutions not serving our needs well and so we made something that does but to make it viable we need to find other people that feel the same way. Is that an acceptable answer to why?
Why are you doing this?
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So, maybe. I absolutely hate voice mail on my phone. People leave poorly worded, slow messages full of ums and arhs. If you want to reference something you have to now listen to the whole thing again rather than being able to focus on the sentence you need like in a text message.
Actually no I've decided they don't work at all. Much better to write it down. Particularly when you have smart...
Could voice messages be a more natural way of communicating than text?
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No I do not think it is complicated but I think it benefits the productivity economy to make out that it is complicated. My approach has three steps. 1. Review what needs to be done. 2. Write down, prioritise and commit. 3. Remove distractions, choose the top item and do it.
Someone mentioned eating the frog. Some days it feels like all I do is eat frogs but hey, in France they are deliscious!
Is productivity complicated?
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@radiumLaw Hey Dominic, this post intrigued me because I wanted to ask you about focus. What do you consider to be producitive time? Do you measure or track true deep work like uninterruptable, sacrid focus time at all?
Do you track your time/productivity every day? What app do you use?
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Hey Helene. We are building our company mission first. It is absolutey critical to what we are doing, indeed it is the reason we are doing it at all.
I worry that missions and visions can sometimes seem a little contrived but ours comes from genuine pain and we live the mission every day.
Here's the copy we use. It's from https://sendmemo.app
Memo's mission is to 'reclaim focus in a...
Your company purpose?
Helene Auramo
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Richard Shepherd
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Find GA overkill for most purposes. We use Plausible Analytics, know the founder and get great service for very little cost. Also, GA uses cookies but Plausible does not so now we don't have to display that awful cookie notice that everyone hates on our website.
How are you overcoming the complexity of Google Analytics?
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Richard Shepherd
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Have you quit Slack? This is what happened when we gave Slack the heave-ho.
When We Stopped Using Slack
In 2019, I worked in a typical remote dev team using Slack. Then we stopped.
Why? Slack destroyed our ability to focus and get meaningful work done. It broke down projects because we talked more than we actually ‘did’. Talk is cheap.
I now work on Memo which is an alternative to Slack and email that respects your focus and values high quality...
Richard Shepherd
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Keeping to some kind of acceptable schedule. Does the day start at 6am when I get up or 10am after a long breakfast? Do I stop at 5pm or work til 6 or 8 or do I take a 4 hour lunch break. I just don't know. How many tea breaks is too many? This is actually quite a problem for me.
What's the hardest part of working remotely for you?
Richard Shepherd
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I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about! haha. A scrum is something sweaty people do in rugby.
We are managing a 6 month project with a sensible budget but we just meet weekly to review progress and set direction / goals for the coming week. We keep in mind the ultimate goal and assess our progress in terms of reaching that.
We try not to put too much onto our plates for one...
Project management for the sake of project management. Do you do that?
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Richard Shepherd
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We have had a fun time using Gather, we have a virtual pub called the Magpie Arms and on a Saturday we just hang out there and chat to whoever turns up.
https://gather.town/
Last week we tried one of those interactive game sessions using Jack Box, that was fun.
The other tool we use mostly for work is Whereby. Far superior to Zoom, much much easier to use, we love the personal room...
How do you socialize virtually with the people you care about?
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Richard Shepherd
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For me it has to be Poolside FM. The best thing to hit the beach since my sunburned torso.
What's the one song/artist you love to listen to while working?
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Richard Shepherd
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Yes, I completely agree. Notifications are worst thing about phones. I want to choose when to engage with something, not when it suits the app.
My attention span is not for sale thank you very much!
I feel very strongly about this and am trying to build our communication tool with the Centre for Humane Technology's principles in mind.
https://www.humanetech.com/technologists
90% of push notifications are a reminder for me to remove an app
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Richard Shepherd
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At Disney they call these accountabillibuddies. Best. Word. Ever. Pioneer is kinda good at this.
Is there a service to find accountability buddies?
Helene Auramo
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