Opinions from a profitable tech company.
My name is Waseem, I started a design and development agency called Hampton Lab. This is my blog where we share how things are going with the company.
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Running out of steam.
Read more: Running out of steam.Have you ever started a project and then ran out of steam a day or two later? I have. I’m currently learning Ruby on Rails and I’m trying to recreate this blog in Rails. It’s been 4 days and I’m already running out of fuel. The antidote? I learned that if I work a couple…
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Finding peace to work.
Read more: Finding peace to work.Being busy does not mean being productive. You can be busy and get nothing done. Something needs to change. Distractions are keeping me from actually getting my work done. Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson at Basecamp got it right, the best way to slice up 4 hours of work is 4 hours. Splicing it…
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The fall of business influencers.
Read more: The fall of business influencers.Business influencers are exhausting. I used to watch “successful people” to see what I can learn or how I can improve, but eventually that turns into keeping up with the Jones’ and it is exhausting. In the beginning, it was good. But now it just drains me. It feels like playing business and not actually…
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Digital hygiene.
Read more: Digital hygiene.Digital hygiene is a sign of a modern day gentlemen. When somebody doesn’t have his things (digitally speaking) together, I question his professionalism. I don’t know where the idea of messy desk = genius mind comes from, but I don’t like it. A renaissance man in the 1500s, or a “genius” as we would say,…
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