Continuous Improvement - Why Better beats Best We are living in a world of silver bullets and magically instant solutions. Or are we? Are the weight loss pills, success seminars, or shiny phones that will complete our lives really helping us, or are they like...
Process Management – Basics or Bust
Process Management - Basics or Bust Have you ever heard commentary on a professional sports team that seems to crumble just as they seem like they are going to win it all? They tend to show brilliance and a high level of technical skill, able to execute complex plays...
Learning: Envisioning solving real-life problems bind people and create a larger purpose
Decision-Making We are at the exciting and terrifying point in the journey. It is the start of 2019 and we are at the crossroads once again. The decision made here will have a long reaching effect on what the future will look like. OPTION 1: We...
Learning: A clear vision helps you stay laser focused and make the right choices
Picking up momentum So here I am, picking up the thread from where we left off. We are still working with the outsourced Australian company (who Ricky is now working for). I engage with them to get our very specific MVP out which is going to be v3 of the...
Learning: Working with the right people is key to getting where you want to get to
Gratitude I have dedicated 2 years of my life (and my wife's life, supporting me) into building this IT system that I reckon will make a difference in the world. We have invested heavily financially, and recently my wife and I have been blessed with our first...
Learning: Not everything is in your control – Moving forward and surviving is sometimes all you can do
Quick Recap Here we are and the reality of the situation is: we have a problem we want to solve we have a client who wants the problem solved our solution doesn't work and I don't have enough technical knowledge...
Learning: High-level understanding is not enough
With all the overconfidence and bravado of someone in their mid-twenties, I jumped in with both feet. I stopped doing my successful property development business and went full time into my new found purpose. First Attempt! Outlook Tasks I approached a...
Rapid Platform – How we started
Technology always fascinated me, the changes it has made for the society over these years are undeniable. Ranging from the industrial revolution making factories infinitely more productive, to telecommunications making the world an infinitely smaller place...
If you are not building you are not learning
In “Art & Fear” David Bayles tells a pot-making anecdote with profound meaning for software engineering: A pottery teacher split her class into two halves. To the first half she said, “You will spend the semester studying pottery, planning, designing, and...
Outputs are not Outcomes and Invention is not Innovation
When Xerox’s PARC Labs engineers unveiled the first PC UI, mouse, keyboard and screen interface in the world, only Steve Jobs was leaping about with excitement. - “Why aren’t...