Hi Sinclair! (and recapping Laracon EU)

February 19, 2023

Back from Laracon EU, and it went well.

Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/
Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis
Colleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger

Transcript

Aaron
00:00:00 – 00:00:00
Hello, Colleen.
Colleen
00:00:01 – 00:00:03
Hey, Aaron. Good to see you again.
Aaron
00:00:04 – 00:00:13
Yeah. I am, I am back from my travels and, almost over my jet lag, but good good glad to be back. It was a good trip.
Colleen
00:00:13 – 00:00:22
Good. So before we talk about your trip, I wanted to give a shout out to our very good friend's daughter, Sinclair, who is a listener of our podcast.
Aaron
00:00:22 – 00:00:33
Hello, Sinclair. I've heard, I've heard you're a big Colleen fan. And so, I'm sure that I'm sure that Colleen's shout out means a lot to you, but we wanted to say thanks for listening.
Colleen
00:00:33 – 00:00:38
Yeah. Thanks. I can't get my own kids to listen, so I super appreciate that someone listens.
Aaron
00:00:40 – 00:00:51
Well, I did, I did just get back. So I was in Lisbon, Portugal last week for Laracon EU, and it was awesome.
Colleen
00:00:52 – 00:00:53
Tell me.
Aaron
00:00:54 – 00:01:29
So we went PlanetScale went as a sponsor, and so I got to meet, I got to meet my coworker or, actually, my boss, Holly, for the first time in person, and I got to see my other coworker, Taylor, in person. I had met her once in Austin, actually. But the 3 of us got to hang out at the booth, which was fun. And I got to meet a ton of my, Laravel Internet friends in person for the first time, which was super fun. And I got to give, I got to give a talk.
Aaron
00:01:29 – 00:01:34
I was I closed out the conference. I was the last speaker. So
Colleen
00:01:34 – 00:01:45
Yeah. Can we talk about how you mentioned you were gonna speak, and then I saw on Twitter that you were closing out the conference? I was like, you're basically keynoting. That's a huge deal.
Aaron
00:01:45 – 00:02:22
Yeah. It, it it turned out it the scheduling turned out really good, I will say. So I gave the same talk that I gave at the faded GitHub Universe conference, if you'll remember, which was fine because if I recall correctly, I think maybe 5 people had heard the talk before. So it was pretty fresh for everybody. But it worked out great because the content of the talk is basically, like, kinda like, rah rah, you know, put yourself out there.
Aaron
00:02:22 – 00:02:43
Good things will happen. Like, go forth and conquer. And so it works it works really well at the end of a at the end of a conference, like, leave on a high note. You know, everybody's everybody's kinda tired at the end. We don't necessarily need another technical deep dive, but we do need a little bit of, like, a, like, a kick out the door to go conquer the world kinda thing.
Aaron
00:02:43 – 00:02:45
And that's what I gave him, and it worked.
Colleen
00:02:46 – 00:02:50
That's amazing. So were there more than 3 people there this time?
Aaron
00:02:50 – 00:03:11
There were more than 3 people there, fortunately. Yeah. There were, I think there were 550 attendees, and so I know that some people did leave early to catch flights back to their their home cities and countries. So, there were probably 500 people in attendance, for my talk. And Wow,
Colleen
00:03:11 – 00:03:12
that's amazing.
Aaron
00:03:13 – 00:03:40
Yeah. It went really, really well. I'm really proud of how it went. I got a lot of I got a lot of good feedback, but I think the coolest part was it, like, you could tell that it resonated emotionally with a lot of people. And a lot of people came up after afterwards and were, like, thanking it for me, asking if they could give me a hug, and I was just like
Colleen
00:03:41 – 00:03:42
Aw. Oh, this must have worked.
Aaron
00:03:43 – 00:04:07
So, yeah, it felt really good. I was I totally redeemed the less than ideal situation. And I was and it was great because, like, you know, I had practiced it so much for GitHub Universe that I only had to practice it a couple times for Lyricon EU, and I still got to, you know, do it just as well because it was all still in my memory. So it worked out great.
Colleen
00:04:07 – 00:04:09
That's awesome. I'm really happy for you.
Aaron
00:04:09 – 00:04:11
Yeah. Thanks. What a relief.
Colleen
00:04:12 – 00:04:13
I bet.
Aaron
00:04:13 – 00:04:29
So, that was good. I'm back working on I think we've talked about the micro pivot, which we can talk about more, but I kinda wanna hear, you've been you've been looking to hire people. So how's that been going?
Colleen
00:04:29 – 00:04:34
Yes. You left for a week, and I decided to restructure our whole business. You're welcome. That,
Aaron
00:04:34 – 00:04:36
that seems to happen, by the way.
Colleen
00:04:36 – 00:04:39
It's the thing I do. Just FYI.
Aaron
00:04:39 – 00:04:41
I'm just glad to be along for the ride.
Colleen
00:04:43 – 00:05:16
Yeah. So while you were gone, I did some deep dive deep thoughts on the future of our relationship with our enterprise customer, and a theme of both of my podcasts has been about how I need to get out of the consulting role, and so we are now in a position to make that happen. So in order to make that happen, I am looking to hire someone to kinda fill that support role and also be technical. Yeah. So last week, I made a lot of progress.
Colleen
00:05:16 – 00:05:28
I wrote up a proper job description and posted on some job boards. I reviewed applicants. And this week, I have already interviewed 4 people in one day, which I would not recommend.
Aaron
00:05:28 – 00:05:29
Sounds
Colleen
00:05:29 – 00:05:40
good. It was it was exhausting. Probably, we'll do that smarter next time. That many people in one day is really hard to maintain the level of focus you need. Yeah.
Colleen
00:05:40 – 00:06:01
But, moving in that direction, I'm finding it's very hard to hire for a startup because it's I cannot give anyone any guarantees about, well, anything. So, you know, I have been asked, can you hire full time? Like, no, not now. I have no idea if that will change. You know, things like that, which make it hard.
Colleen
00:06:01 – 00:06:53
And I think it's also harder to hire on a contract basis versus hiring in the US at least a w two, like, kinda full time employee because people want a little more security than I can provide with a 3 month contract. That being said, I had over 30 applicants, so I I think, there's I've like I said, I interviewed a bunch of people, and and the people who have applied seemed great. I could see any of the people I interviewed today being a good fit, to be honest with you. So for me, the next step is really to figure out like, to even drill down even further in terms of what I want and what I need for this role. And so I had the basic job description that I put up on the job boards, but now I am writing a much more detailed one just to make sure that expectations are set between me and whomever I do hire.
Aaron
00:06:54 – 00:06:57
What job boards did you post this on?
Colleen
00:06:57 – 00:07:19
I posted it on, the rails job board that Chris Oliver has, the Go Rails job board. Oh, nice. But what was really surprising to me was I posted it for free, so I didn't pay to have it bumped or boosted or anything. And I started getting applicants right away. And then I also signed us up for, that rail rails devs?
Colleen
00:07:19 – 00:07:20
Rails devs?
Aaron
00:07:20 – 00:07:21
Yep. I saw that.
Colleen
00:07:21 – 00:07:40
I signed us up for that, and that's a reverse job board. So you don't post your job. You actually reach out to independent contractors and people looking for employment. Mhmm. And so those are the only 2 channels I used, and I have had more than plenty, more than plenty.
Colleen
00:07:40 – 00:07:47
I've had plenty of qualified applicants. Like, well, I'm a 100% sure I will be able to select someone from the people that have applied.
Aaron
00:07:48 – 00:07:50
Well, that's pretty great then.
Colleen
00:07:50 – 00:07:51
Yeah.
Aaron
00:07:51 – 00:07:57
For us to be able to have several people to choose from is that's kinda awesome.
Colleen
00:07:57 – 00:08:11
Yes. I think the next step so I've interviewed 4. I think I have 3 more. I think I asked 7 people to interview. The next step is I do want to do some kind of paid coding project, something short, something small.
Colleen
00:08:11 – 00:08:43
I think in the past, I you know, some people like to hire really quickly and then fire really quickly if that's what works for them. I'd rather do a little more work up front to evaluate if someone is the a good fit. And so tomorrow, hopefully, I'll come up with some just kinda basic coding challenge, nothing too hard, and then I'll probably ask them to pair for an hour, and that'll be paid. Because this is someone I'm gonna be working with quite a lot, so I need to make sure that they're available to pair, that we can do that, that they communicate well, things like that.
Aaron
00:08:43 – 00:08:59
Yeah. That makes sense to me. And where is this person gonna slot in in terms of so you you've mentioned getting out of consulting. Is this going to be the new you at the client, or is this some other role, or how are you thinking about this?
Colleen
00:09:00 – 00:09:28
So my ideal would be that they're basically me, like, the new me. They do and, of course, someone has to work up to this, but they would be the person responding in Slack. They would be the person attending the meetings and giving status updates. So it's it's a interesting role because it is both very technical, because they need to be able to push code, and they need to be able to fix bugs, but, also, I need someone who can communicate well. And that's that's a lot of different skill sets.
Colleen
00:09:28 – 00:09:56
Right? We as founders, like, we have a lot of different skill sets. And so to look for a developer who is comfortable both, like, really, really doing deep technical work and going to a meeting and giving a status update or, respond you know, working with the other developers in Slack, like, that's that's that's a very well rounded developer. And so that is ideally what I would like to find. And I think I think I can find that.
Colleen
00:09:56 – 00:10:28
It's just, can I find that within our budget is the real I mean, that's that's the real the real question? And and the other thing that, like, I've been talking to people about is I also need someone who really executes. I don't need a deep thinker, which is kind of a funny, like, juxtaposition, because usually you wanna get the most senior person you can afford. But I'm literally telling people on these interviews. I was like, you're gonna come in, and the first thing I'm gonna ask you to do is write a set a set of integration tests, like system tests.
Colleen
00:10:28 – 00:10:38
And so I do that so I can set the expectation that I don't want you to come in and tell me how you want to refactor. There will be no refactoring. Yeah.
Aaron
00:10:39 – 00:10:42
There will be be able to rewrite it from scratch. We've done that.
Colleen
00:10:42 – 00:11:09
There will be there will be none of that. There will be execution. So it's kind of hard to find someone I don't know. It seems like the people who have, like, the complete skill set are are a little more senior. In in my experience, those people like to take a leadership role within the code base, but I already have I already have senior I already have those kinds of people, so I just really need someone who can execute.
Colleen
00:11:09 – 00:11:18
So, yeah, it's been a whirlwind. I mean, last time I talked to you, I wasn't even serious about hiring, and here I am interviewing people. So welcome back.
Aaron
00:11:18 – 00:11:23
And I miss a 110 Telegram messages while I'm on a flight, and I I land
Colleen
00:11:23 – 00:11:24
sure did.
Aaron
00:11:24 – 00:11:26
Yeah. We're doing interviews. So awesome.
Colleen
00:11:29 – 00:11:32
I think there really were a 110. Like, it was
Aaron
00:11:32 – 00:11:35
There really were. I saw them. My notification badges is
Colleen
00:11:35 – 00:11:35
100.
Aaron
00:11:35 – 00:11:45
A 110 between you, me, and somebody else. And I was like, well, seems like they had a lot to say because I was I was on an airplane. Yeah.
Colleen
00:11:45 – 00:12:06
I think and, you know, the conversation we had with that that person, I think also just, it, it's good to get that outside perspective sometimes because it's so easy to get, like, sucked into the weeds of tasks. I saw this tweet. I don't remember who it was, but he said, startups don't fail. They drown, like, drown.
Aaron
00:12:06 – 00:12:07
That's all bad.
Colleen
00:12:07 – 00:12:22
Yeah. You're overwhelmed with all these tasks and and figuring out I mean, this person said to us, he said, neither of you are spending the majority of your time trying to find product market fit, and that concerns me. And I was like, oh, yeah. I guess you're right.
Aaron
00:12:22 – 00:12:23
Yeah. So
Colleen
00:12:23 – 00:12:23
That's a
Aaron
00:12:23 – 00:12:24
good point. Yeah.
Colleen
00:12:25 – 00:12:48
Yeah. So that's what I've been up to. We also, while you were gone, got a really big up like, technical update, pushed to the gym, pushed the engine into the client, which was a big deal. It was our our saved filters and our our on the fly filters were actually in the same controller. So we actually separate oh, they weren't really in the same controller.
Colleen
00:12:48 – 00:13:05
But the way the state was managed with them, it was all very closely intertwined. And so we were able to kind of we were able to separate them within the code base, which is just gonna make future stuff so much easier. And I work with the designer who came into my office. I love that he's local. That's been super fun.
Colleen
00:13:05 – 00:13:05
Oh, cool.
Aaron
00:13:05 – 00:13:07
I didn't know he was local.
Colleen
00:13:07 – 00:13:14
Oh, you didn't? No. Yeah. He lives here. So he comes to my office, like, once a month, and we design stuff.
Aaron
00:13:14 – 00:13:17
Well, that rules. The one that made that incredible UI?
Colleen
00:13:18 – 00:13:19
Yep. That's the one.
Aaron
00:13:19 – 00:13:21
Wow. That's pretty cool.
Colleen
00:13:21 – 00:13:30
It is really cool. And so he came in, so we were able to kind of it's really fun when he comes in because we just kinda hack away at stuff. Right? We're like, what what should I don't design. Right?
Colleen
00:13:30 – 00:13:46
He's like, what should this look like? And he can mock stuff up so fast. And so and then I can just kinda play around with, oh, like, can we use that with our architecture? Like, what would we have to change? And so it's kind of fun to just play in that space a little bit.
Colleen
00:13:46 – 00:13:59
Yeah. So, been doing that and working with him to work towards our new, like, kind of vision for what we want filters to look like and moving forward. Just moving forward on product stuff.
Aaron
00:13:59 – 00:14:01
Well, that's one heck of a week.
Colleen
00:14:01 – 00:14:03
Oh, yeah. It was it was, like, crazy busy.
Aaron
00:14:05 – 00:14:06
That's good.
Colleen
00:14:06 – 00:14:07
Yeah. It was really fun.
Aaron
00:14:07 – 00:14:37
Well, hold on. I'm sorry. I missed all of the excitement. So, on my side, I've been working on that, you know, the pivot that we've talked about and getting a UI in place that can represent more clearly reporting. And I think I told you about this, but I was on a call with somebody who wanted to buy Refine, and I was showing it to him and asking him, you know, what what are you doing with it?
Aaron
00:14:37 – 00:14:54
He's like, oh, I'm building out, you know, reporting. And I was like, oh, imagine that. And so I showed him I showed him the UI that I was working on, and I was like, this is kinda what we're working towards. And he, you know, stuck his hand out into the camera and said, this is me offering you my money. This I want this.
Aaron
00:14:54 – 00:14:59
This is what I'm building, and I don't want to build it. I was like, Uh-huh.
Colleen
00:14:59 – 00:15:00
That's awesome. That's
Aaron
00:15:00 – 00:15:16
great. And then you were there for the other one when we were on the call with that guy the other day, and he was trying to buy Refine, and asked him why, and he was like, I'm building reporting. And I said, okay, well, look at this. And he said, yeah, this is this is what I want. Is this ready?
Aaron
00:15:16 – 00:15:33
I was like, no, but that's great. So that's 2, you know, 2 for 2 since we've started working on, you know, reporting that people have said, I actually just want reporting. I just am doing refine to, like, build it myself. So that feels really good.
Colleen
00:15:33 – 00:15:43
Yeah. I think that's great. I'm excited about that. I think what was funny about that second call too is he was like, what else do people use this for? Like, isn't everyone using this for reporting?
Aaron
00:15:43 – 00:15:52
Yeah. He was so he was so confused. He was like, do you have other use cases for this? It's like, well, yeah. But I guess not as many.
Aaron
00:15:53 – 00:15:53
So
Colleen
00:15:53 – 00:16:10
I I did have a customer call while you were gone with a rails shop, and they did want it more as an engine. I like just using that term, like, more as a layer. So they did kinda just want the component. But, yeah, overall, I think reporting is is gonna be such a good move.
Aaron
00:16:11 – 00:16:34
Yeah. Yeah. It'll be interesting to see if, once the reporting thing is is live, if we sell both separately, because I could, like, I there are valid use cases for just the query builder outside of, like, this reporting interface, but I just don't know if many people clear clearly, not that many people see it that way. We'll see. Why not?
Aaron
00:16:34 – 00:16:36
This is my my point of view.
Colleen
00:16:36 – 00:16:46
Well, okay. I have a proposal for you. Let's talk about reporting. Okay. You really wanna sell this as an engine that they plug into their own application, a package.
Colleen
00:16:46 – 00:16:47
Right?
Aaron
00:16:48 – 00:16:56
I don't know if engine has technical terms in rails, and so I can't say for sure. But, like, yeah, something they drop into their own application. Yeah.
Colleen
00:16:56 – 00:17:17
So I was on a mentor call with someone experienced in product stuff last week. Uh-huh. And she made the point I think her exact words were, why would I pay a lice annual fee for something that you're just gonna give me and it's a one time thing? Have you thought about us doing a hosted version of reports?
Aaron
00:17:19 – 00:17:23
I have thought about it, and I have thought that that sounds terrible.
Colleen
00:17:24 – 00:17:40
Yeah. I just wonder about if I sell you like, even with you know, we're in our 1st year, so we'll see how renewals go. But even with the package, when you sell a package, are people gonna pay for updates? Because there aren't gonna be that many updates. It's almost like a licensing fee.
Colleen
00:17:40 – 00:17:40
Right?
Aaron
00:17:41 – 00:17:59
Yeah. It's like a licensing fee. It is, you know, there are gonna I think there are gonna be a fair amount of updates, especially with especially with a reporting interface. You can continually there's a lot more surface area where you can continually add stuff.
Colleen
00:18:00 – 00:18:00
It's true.
Aaron
00:18:01 – 00:18:47
So, like, I would imagine scheduled reports would be in the first release, but if it's not, like, huge features like that can be added. And then stuff like Laravel 10 support come you know, Laravel 10 drops in in February. And so, like, ongoing maintenance updates like that, I think, I I I feel I feel fine about the the licensing fee. Where I feel terrible is doing a hosted version, because then, 1, we're competing with Metabase, which sounds real hard, and 2, then we have to navigate connectivity to their database and all of that stuff, which sounds less than ideal as well.
Colleen
00:18:47 – 00:18:53
Yeah. I agree with you. I don't really wanna I do not not really. I don't wanna have a hosted version. I'm just wondering
Aaron
00:18:54 – 00:19:00
Yeah. I also don't wanna be, uptime. Can you imagine having to worry about uptime for all that kind of stuff?
Colleen
00:19:01 – 00:19:04
No. No. Thank you. Yeah. I prefer not.
Colleen
00:19:05 – 00:19:09
It'll just be interesting to see how the licensing fee thing works out.
Aaron
00:19:09 – 00:19:20
Totally. Yeah. Totally. I think think it'll be on us to continue to I don't know. I was gonna say it'll be on us to continue to add stuff, but I don't know.
Aaron
00:19:20 – 00:19:23
Like, licensing fees are pretty normal.
Colleen
00:19:23 – 00:19:27
Yeah. Like, that's I feel like they're pretty normal. Thing. It's a common thing for for
Aaron
00:19:27 – 00:19:28
We'll see.
Colleen
00:19:28 – 00:19:29
Reasonable sized businesses.
Aaron
00:19:30 – 00:19:44
Yeah. That's like the that's like the Sketch model back before Figma took over everything. Sketch was like, you pay once and you get you retain access to this version forever, but we do a new version every year. Yeah. So
Colleen
00:19:45 – 00:19:49
Oh, no. I'm I'm We'll find out. We'll find out. I just want to see what you yeah. See what you thought about that.
Aaron
00:19:49 – 00:19:56
Yeah. The only the only thing I feel super strongly about this is I feel as strongly about this as you feel anti open source
Colleen
00:19:58 – 00:20:02
as I'm not doing a hosted version. Okay. Fair enough.
Aaron
00:20:02 – 00:20:09
So between the 2 of us, we've eliminated eliminated open source and hosted versions, so we don't have too many options left.
Colleen
00:20:10 – 00:20:15
I love it. We're building the business we want. That's exactly what we're doing. Right?
Aaron
00:20:15 – 00:20:17
Alright. What else? Anything?
Colleen
00:20:17 – 00:20:45
I I don't think so. I have been yeah, I've just been super productive the past couple weeks. I feel like I have done a really good job taking a, whatever they call it, 10,000 foot view, like stepping back from the task list and evaluating, like, is this the right thing for the business? And so I think as long as I can continue yeah. I just wanna make sure I continue to do that, like, because it's hard not to get sucked into the tasks.
Aaron
00:20:45 – 00:20:52
Yeah. Yeah. I feel the same way. It's that whole that hustle culture mindset, man. I feel like I'm just knocking stuff out.
Aaron
00:20:52 – 00:21:01
It's awesome. Yeah. So r r I p to the anti hustle culture, but it's it's great to just work hard and get stuff done.
Colleen
00:21:02 – 00:21:05
I know. It is great. Right? It just feels amazing. Like, I was It
Aaron
00:21:05 – 00:21:06
really does.
Colleen
00:21:06 – 00:21:16
Before before the pod, I was reviewing my I've started doing these weekly reviews, and I was reviewing my weekly. And I was like, wow. I really crushed it last week. That's awesome. Wait.
Colleen
00:21:16 – 00:21:16
Wait.
Aaron
00:21:16 – 00:21:18
Wait to go me. Way to go, Colleen. That's awesome.
Colleen
00:21:19 – 00:21:36
Way to go, team. I'm so gonna become that person that, like, over overoptimizes, and then I'm like, this is ridiculous. Like, so okay. So every day every day I do I, like, make myself a loose time box schedule. And so I've started, like, color coding them based on my energy levels.
Colleen
00:21:36 – 00:21:40
Like, where's my energy level for this? I know. I know. You're building
Aaron
00:21:40 – 00:21:43
a second brain and notion. Oh, no.
Colleen
00:21:44 – 00:22:04
It's so much fun. Okay. So this is only week 1, so I don't wanna get too ambitious about it, but it's kinda neat to see, like, how my day is like, green is something I'm super pumped to do. Yellow is, and red is, like, I really don't wanna do this task. And so it's kind of fun, and it's easy.
Colleen
00:22:04 – 00:22:09
Right? I since I already make the list, I can just right click and assign it a color. I'll let you know how it works out.
Aaron
00:22:09 – 00:22:13
No. You're gonna have to sell a course soon. This sounds terrible.
Colleen
00:22:15 – 00:22:21
Well, I was inspired to buy, what is that book? Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell.
Aaron
00:22:21 – 00:22:24
Oh, yeah. Somebody was talking about that recently. Right?
Colleen
00:22:24 – 00:22:43
Yes. In our Slack because he was on startups for the rest of us. And I'm only in chapter 3, but I have to say it is not what I expected. I it to be really, like, just work harder, and it's not like that at all. It's I mean, it's things that everyone always says, like, make your 4 quadrants.
Colleen
00:22:43 – 00:22:48
His are a little different than the other quadrants, but it's a good exercise, I think, to go through that.
Aaron
00:22:49 – 00:23:08
Interesting. Yeah. I I heard good things about that. I guess we both heard them in the same place, it sounds like, but glad to hear it's good. In terms of things that are read on your second brain Notion document, how how red is dealing with attorneys?
Colleen
00:23:09 – 00:23:10
Oh, it's super red.
Aaron
00:23:10 – 00:23:18
Yeah. I thought so. Yeah. But congratulations to us. We are officially a c corp now.
Colleen
00:23:19 – 00:23:20
Yes. That's very exciting.
Aaron
00:23:20 – 00:23:28
No longer an LLC. We're a c corp, and thank you to all of the, all of the red work on your part to deal
Colleen
00:23:28 – 00:23:28
with all
Aaron
00:23:28 – 00:23:40
of those attorneys. I also that was another thing. I got back and I looked at, you know, I looked at all the emails and it was like 30 emails from attorneys, like sign this, sign this, sign this. And I just, alright. Sounds good, man.
Colleen
00:23:41 – 00:23:46
Yep. Yeah. There was a lot of work to get us converted, but I think we're gonna be happy we did it.
Aaron
00:23:46 – 00:23:55
Yeah, I think so. What a nightmare, but it's done. And, and again, I don't think starting as a C Corp would have been the right call. I feel like
Colleen
00:23:55 – 00:23:56
No way.
Aaron
00:23:56 – 00:24:01
That is a huge amount of overhead that would have just would have been way too early. So
Colleen
00:24:02 – 00:24:05
I totally agree. I totally agree. I think we made the right move.
Aaron
00:24:05 – 00:24:20
Well, I look forward to hearing more about your second brain. I'm not super surprised, because I know you do, like, don't you do big year end review with your journaling? You're, like, you're kinda you're kinda into the whole notion, like, influence thing.
Colleen
00:24:21 – 00:24:24
I am. I'm into it. I like it. I like to optimize.
Aaron
00:24:24 – 00:24:30
Yeah. Okay. Well, keep me posted if it lasts longer than a week. I would love to hear more about it.
Colleen
00:24:30 – 00:24:37
I know. Right? So I'm telling you about it now, but it's only day 2. So let's see if it if it goes to next week. I only started yesterday.
Colleen
00:24:37 – 00:24:45
I was like, oh, I should I should audit my energy levels because that's the thing I need to know. Like, what do I enjoy? What do I not enjoy?
Aaron
00:24:45 – 00:24:47
Audit my energy levels.
Colleen
00:24:47 – 00:24:49
I'm sure I read that in a book.
Aaron
00:24:49 – 00:24:53
I'm sure that you did or from a Thinkfluencer on Twitter.
Colleen
00:24:54 – 00:24:56
Yes. Yes. I'm sure I did.
Aaron
00:24:57 – 00:24:59
Alright. Well, anything else?
Colleen
00:25:00 – 00:25:02
Nope. Nothing for me. Anything from your side?
Aaron
00:25:03 – 00:25:06
No. I don't think so. I think we can call it there.
Colleen
00:25:06 – 00:25:07
Alright.
Aaron
00:25:07 – 00:25:08
Alright. Bye, Sinclair.
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