Hello Transmitter!

I spent my Sunday afternoon developing a web app called Hello Transmitter! for the startup's open source software suite. And I enjoyed myself and am pleased with my use of my Sunday afternoon.

I chose to do this because we have a demo coming up this week and I think this adds a lot of value, and will give me a strong sense of pride and accomplishment to show it off.

As the web app is in a "good enough" state, I stopped myself from continuing to work on it into the evening, allowing my brain to enjoy one sleep before developing it further in the morning. This gives me the chance to celebrate the second advent and reflect on my first week of Startical 2.0.

E-mail Autoresponder

Here's my e-mail autoresponder message similar to the one in Startical 1.0 . Curious to see if it garners interesting responses like the ones received during Startical 1.0: "I would love to do the same … !" "C'est une bonne décision. L'esprit est aussi important que le reste et j'espère que ce Startical te permettra de recharger les batteries comme tu le souhaites." "It’s what we all wish we could do!" "Take a good rest Jeff, you deserve it" "Awesome auto reply"

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Evolutionary Purpose

Will and I discussed finding the balance of progress and purpose in organisations (startups and otherwise) which reminded me of the book Reinventing Organizations by Frédéric Laloux which was recommended to me by one of my mentors. We found the clip above on YouTube (if you're not familiar with Laloux, it's a nice short summary of his work) and one element stood out for me: what he called Evolutionary Purpose . How I understand this concept is that the purpose (or soul) of an organisation evolves over time, rather than an individual or leadership team directing towards a specific outcome. It's very much in line with the sailboat analogy and the lunch discussion I had with the team. It is very reassuring to me that the people closest to me today all affirmed my feelings on leadership, and interesting that it often took very different paths/context for us to be able to truly connect on the subject.

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