January 2024
What do I do?
I do three things – https://techcelerate.ventures – community of tech founders. We are about building companies for customers and not investors – https://deallite.uk – intelligence on UK’s venture backed tech companies and investors who back them – https://skilledup.life – 41,000+ skilled volunteers to build tech companies, especially supporting bootstrapped tech companies.
Evolving of Daily Reporting Culture
A few years back, we introduced daily reporting culture at SkilledUp Life. This is how it works: Everyone submits an update of what they worked on every day on a dedicated Slack Channel including full-timers and me in addition to our volunteers. Our HR Performance Sub Team copies the updates to a Spreadsheet manually, which […]
Stuff we don’t realise we have.
It has only taken about 15 years to realise I can use QuickTime Player to record videos and I don’t need Loom, Bubbles or Vidyard.Only a few years back I started to use Notes and realised I didn’t need any fancy SaaS applications for note-taking.Freeform has killed my need for flowcharting SaaS apps.I started using […]
Keeping the new year momentum
It’s no secret that 2023 has been a disappointing year for me. So far this year, at least for SkilledUp Life, we have decent momentum. Day 1 – disappointing. Failed to process salaries due to the failure of Flutterwave. Day 2 – A new customer signed up. I met them first on Linkedin in November. […]
Learning AI through #100DaysOfAI Challenge – Day 1 & 2
I discovered a course thanks to Chamara and decided to take it in given that the ask is for 30 minutes per day. Day 2 which I completed today instead of on the 2nd Jan is all about using ChatGPT to improve your existing work, in this case, an email was used as an example. […]