Iotas

It has been a very fruitful day today.

Waking up at 7:30 and heading out for a founders brainstorm events for 4 hours in the morning. The other 3 founders are also quitted “recently” (ranging from 1 year to 6 months). 4 of us, in a room, 4 hours, brainstorming ideas and trying to question each others ideas to dive deep into the problem we trying to solve.

After that, I waited/ worked in the middle of a very busy wework office for 2.5 hours for queuing concert tickets for my wife and gladly I got 2 for her so she is happy (happy wife happy life).

Then, I went back to my old office and worked there a bit. It is always great to meet the excolleagues again and have some human interactions after pretty long time I have to say.

I had some more thought about my mental health application ideas and they have also introduced me to another person to connect too who also into mental health journalling application. Fun fun.

I personally feel pretty energetic and looking forward to the new challenge again. Today is a positive day and I guess some human touch/ meeting friends are pretty necessary in this dull, lonely startup life.

So far, I think I am definitely in favor to starting up with someone; but at the same time, there are so many opportunities in front of me and it is always hard to turn down. I guess I need to better equip myself before engaging with the true founders I wanna work with.

There is one question I got asked in the last interview with Antler and it hits me well. The interviewer asked me “Have you ever built something and launched on your own?”. The true answer is no; I only built something and launch under the company logo/ team effort. I never actually launch something completely on my own and I need to maintain it and run it. And I think I should try to start doing a bit of this so I can learn more experience out of it. I sometimes believe it is a very european/ Hong Kong mindset of satisfying in a work life and getting paid and stable income etc. In the US or mainland, the heart to start a business or run with something is very common (although the success rate is very low, the base is huge so they always have some impressive startup/ business come out on the upper hand. I hope I can get this mindset out of my way so I can truely grow and not dare to try and pivot.

That would be my new goal: Launch something on my own; and that is what I am good at: following goals

Journal:

1. 4 hours brainstorm with 3 other bright founders
2. 2 hours for BTS concert tickets
3. 4 hours in the old office socialising and working a bit
4. Setup some trip for my parents

Looking forward to:

1. Moving in tomorrow 🙂
2. Having a new goal to launch something on my own 🙂

Happy day today :).