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A few months ago something new happened at my startup, I got the first ever person to work for My Day To-Do i.e. I found a marketing intern. Interestingly enough as it turned out it would also be the first ever person that I would 'let go'. However I had hired two marketing interns and while I had to let one go, the other one stayed and I was very happy with how he had performed. In this blogpost, I will share my story of what happened with the first intern as well as describe in detail about how I managed the other intern's time. Background to getting help I have already talked about ( here ) how as of this year my startup  ( My Day To-Do ) is finally out of my apartment and into the Catapult co-working space at UNSW. Combine that with the limitation of me trying to do and manage every single aspect of my business, I thought why not get some help? Marketing is one of the weakest aspects of my business, I mean seriously, I am a man with  a background in Computer S...

As of 2017 my vision for my app, My Day To-Do has broadened and I plan to expand it to a full fledged product (startup) rather than just a app that I built in my spare time. In this blog post, I will talk about My attempt at being more productive than I am for my one man startup Challenges inherent to time management Preparing a job description to find someone to come onboard Managing areas outside my expertise So without further a due, let's get to the post. Hopefully some of you reading this can learn something from my experiences. Background The year 2016, despite some personal challenges was actually quite good for me and while there were no monetary gains for me, I did manage to increase downloads for My Day To-Do and the number of monthly page views for my blog. My progress last year was somewhat surprising to me, why? well I was working from home all of last year and while I released a number of updates for my app, wrote several useful blog posts, made a n...

In most of my past jobs, I had the opportunity of working with a great team! I mean those who I have worked alongside have always been some kind of awesome. All except for that one member, that I never really liked very much. In this post, I will briefly talk about my evolution as a Software developer and how I evolved to be a lot like that one team member I wasn't too thrilled about working with. That ONE team member In most of my past jobs, working in a team was always heaps of fun, unfortunately every team had someone who would make a plan, have deadlines, monitor the time spent on each task, etc. Yes of course I am talking about the Project Manager. In some of my early jobs, every time a project manager asked me "how long it would take me to finish something?"   one of the first things in my mind would be, "ahh dude go away, let me write code in peace". I mean all I want to do is write good code i.e. code which is modular, follows the right design pat...