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@Christine: Yep – my new question is “Is this a jingle?” It’s been working on the short-term; let’s see how it pays off in the long term.

@Mike: I hadn’t realized that I’d never mentioned Angela by name. We’re starting to take our online stuff new directions, though – so you’ll probably see her name a lot more. If only I could get her to write about the stuff SHE comes up with which is often way better than stuff I come up with.

I also like the asymmetry you bring out in the first part of your comment. I hadn’t really thought much about that, either.

@Duff: Interesting that you brought out the context of this. I find myself asking, also – “what would the panel think about this?” I love the different perspectives that come up as I imagine what each of you would say.

@Nathalie: I’m working on consistency on that front, to be honest. Some days I get the right balance, and other days I’m way off. The trick has been finding what works without beating myself up about when things don’t work.

@JoVe: I, too, have been grappling with similar issues. What happens when work becomes an internal pursuit rather than an external pursuit? How do you balance time between things that are important along different axes? How can we set healthy deadlines and honor them without getting uber freaked out about them?

As you can tell, I’m writing more as I things become clearer to me.

@Sean: I agree with you – the jingle bits can be fun. So it wasn’t about choosing between something I didn’t want to and something I did want to do; rather, it was about choosing between two things I wanted to do. It turns out that one was clearly more important than the other.

For some people, the 3 pixels problem and its fix are important so the fix bring them joy. However, perfectionism is an enemy and if there is no joy in nothing but “perfect” then perhaps the priorities are lost.

I hope I am illustrating your comments. I love to do these kind of goofy things in podcasts. If jingles aren’t your thing, then skip them. I’ll still listen.

All choices. Thanks for the good things you folks are talking about here. Nicely done.

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In fact, the thing that is concerning me about growing my business is precisely the balance between that and other things, particularly how available I am to my kid (who is homeschooled, so it isn’t like I just do it while she’s not here). I’m still mulling but so much of the advice about “time management” (which I hate) is purely about managing your “work” time as if that is easily separable from other things. Sure, if you go into the office, you can set clear boundaries between work and non-work, but one of the attractions of self-employment for me is that I don’t want that.

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And of course thanks for reminding us to focus on the essence. As an enterprise software developer I see a lot of cases where developers build unwanted or unneeded features. Sometimes it’s hard to remember that our audience doesn’t have the intimate familiarity of the details that we do. Things we see as huge or glaring are barely noticeable to them and do not add value from their perception. And that’s the perception that matters.

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