I’m now 6 months into my journey of solo bootstrapping a profitable software business, and I just want to say thanks to everyone who helped me get here. To give back, here’s 31 tricks for starting a company that I’ve learned along the way.
Oh, that's funny! I thought YOU were the one I got the idea to read it from, via some old tweet or something ^^
I'm not really in a position to give advices, althouth if it helps I think the ever popular "How to Win Friends and Influence People" was instructive. A lot of commonsense if you pause and think about it, but it's very interesting/enlightening to have someone actually *telling it* "out loud". The hard part is applying the advices...
About point 22's “(praise) "but" (criticism)“ rule, those two posts talk about this subject:
The first one proposes “(criticism) "but" (praise)“ with a twist, plus a strategy to turn the "but" into an "and". The second outlines other related advices/rules from the book and stays "true" to that book section (as I remember it anyways), that is: ditch the "but" and use "and".
That part stuck with me especially because in the book the example was about parent to child negative feedback and the day I read that part I had just failed miserably at having that exact same kind of conversation ^^ I try to think about it and apply it more often now.
Let me know what you think and keep up the good work!
All valid points! I probably made a mistake packing a ~90 minute writing lecture into a single sentence. Each of these has their use in the right situation.
Hey Michael 👋 Quick question:
"start by praising their work, then use the word "but" to start your criticism" is in contradiction with Dale Carnegie’s How to (etc etc) teachings.
Didn’t you mean the other way around?
Did this technique work better for you?
Thanks for all the tips!
I haven't read Dale Carnegie (where should I start?), but that was the ultra abridged advice from Larry McEnerney. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM
Oh, that's funny! I thought YOU were the one I got the idea to read it from, via some old tweet or something ^^
I'm not really in a position to give advices, althouth if it helps I think the ever popular "How to Win Friends and Influence People" was instructive. A lot of commonsense if you pause and think about it, but it's very interesting/enlightening to have someone actually *telling it* "out loud". The hard part is applying the advices...
About point 22's “(praise) "but" (criticism)“ rule, those two posts talk about this subject:
* https://kletische.com/use-word-delivering-criticism/
* https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dale-carnegies-tips-how-change-people-without-offending-tannia-su%C3%A1rez/
The first one proposes “(criticism) "but" (praise)“ with a twist, plus a strategy to turn the "but" into an "and". The second outlines other related advices/rules from the book and stays "true" to that book section (as I remember it anyways), that is: ditch the "but" and use "and".
That part stuck with me especially because in the book the example was about parent to child negative feedback and the day I read that part I had just failed miserably at having that exact same kind of conversation ^^ I try to think about it and apply it more often now.
Let me know what you think and keep up the good work!
[edit]: thanks for the link by the way :-)
All valid points! I probably made a mistake packing a ~90 minute writing lecture into a single sentence. Each of these has their use in the right situation.