I really appreciate how Swing Left helps me find the ways my time and money can go furthest to make meaningful change in our country this November. This is a great opportunity to build technology that does real good.
Morgan is amazing. She's helped Google, Twitter, and Foursquare hire amazing talent and now she's offering her expertise to all startups. Can't wait to see how this grows!
I've never done a Startup Weekend, but posts like this make me want to try it.
As someone who has iterated and launched a lot of stuff in the past year, I love this approach. I think 54 hours is crazy small to release a quality product, and dont know if I could do it, but Bubs is right with the framework. If you have to do it, this seems like a great method.
Love this: "Design is incredibly strategic. Later, visual design becomes absolutely vital, and that’s really more the front-of-the-house way all that strategy becomes expressed. The two go hand in hand: to have both, design strategy as well as design expression, is a powerful combination."
My guess is that the difference is in the evening, everyone else is awake and there are more distractions where in the morning, it's more quiet and peaceful.
Plus, at the end of the day you have thoughts of the day racing through your head where in the morning, it's a fresh start.
One thing I've found (which I'm not currently doing as well as before) is if I set one time to wake up each day and actually get out of bed (no snooze), I start waking up more and more refreshed. It could be 5, it could be 8, but if I am consistant, it doesn't matter the time, I wake up and am not groggy.
So, could be useful for super early wakeups like 5 AM.
That's right. I'm not. I sold my startup last year and am working for the acquirer. I'm building stuff on the side, and having fun. But those are projects.