My Annoying Habit

My Annoying Habit

Past me wasn’t a genius...

He just left great notes for the idiot who’d show up 6 months later.

There’s one (annoying?) thing I do every day that makes my life as a Founder exponentially easier:

Write that s**t down.

I love my brain – it’s gotten me to where I am now and has solved endless problems and untangled many a convoluted process.

But man, does it get distracted in the Founder life.

Remembering every minute detail, idea, next step is difficult, especially when you’re constantly switching context.

One minute I can be deep in the code talking to our devs, and the next I have to jump into a call to discuss high-level value propositions or confirm the best color template for the website.

Without resources like Git, and honestly, notepads, white boards, scraps of paper or whatever else I can get my hands to serve as reminders on what I’ve done so far or need to do next, I would be lost.

This need further compounds as you start to grow and/or add team members in terms of the necessity for formal documentation on the processes you currently follow.

Learned this personally when recently switching accounting systems (IYKYK—so much fun!)— that process underscored the necessity of documenting procedures, especially for complex tasks like deferred revenue recognition.

Even before bringing someone on to train on, I had created a Notion page for myself detailing the steps for capturing revenue recognition data (special shout out to ARRow on this one 😇 ) and also documented the whole process for our payroll source deductions.

Yes, it took time in the front end but documenting processes like that facilitates easier scaling and delegation for when you do hire, as there is a system to follow.

Whether it’s a daily to-do list, a Post-it on what you wanted to check in on, or a detailed internal process, don’t be a hero - just write it down!