Burger, Fries, and a Coke. My family created a simple tradition on New Years Day a few years ago with our kids. It's an opportunity to reflect on the year that just was and set our intentions for the year to come. Our ceremony begins with treating ourselves to burgers, fries, and milkshakes at our favorite burger joint in Seattle. We end the meal by selecting a single word, or short phrase, that that sets our intent for the new year.
I believe the forced shift to online content for many venues has the opportunity to create entirely new ways to experience live theater and music. Specifically within community theater, I believe there is a huge opportunity to reach new and larger audiences than ever before. The combination of low-cost production tools, streaming platforms, and affordable licensing creates a recipe for theaters and venues to get a foothold now, and explore a post-covid hybrid experience for the future
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Theater
Music
It's good to reflect periodically on your career and introspect on things you could have done better or will do differently in the future. Much like how sprint retrospectives or correction of error discussions can lead to continuous improvement, you can follow a similar approach for your own personal development.
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Leadership
Continuous Improvement
One of the first things you'll be asked to do as a CTO is develop your company's technical vision and strategy. There are a lot of factors to be considered in developing a solid vision and mapping out your strategy to execute on this vision.
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Leadership
CTO-How-To's
For startups lucky enough to discover product-market-fit and begin generating revenue, it can be difficult to give up this sense of instant gratification. Founder's I've advised have said "I don't want to introduce process, won't it slow us down? we move very fast", or "We have feature x, why is my engineering team taking so long to deliver feature y?", "Why do we have so many bugs all of a sudden?".
I am sometimes asked by founders to chime in on early technology choices. Most often I avoid prescribing a specific technology stack. These decisions hinge on factors specific to each startup, the make up of their team, and the product.
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SEO
Startups