This falling ill thing is really interesting and not something i'd come across before. This perhaps goes someway to explaining why it's quite easy to get ill over the Christmas period. The stress in getting all your work done before the break and then an immediate halt of pressure.
I wonder if Ryan started doing business with this culture in place or if it was something he adopted. I'd be interested to hear how he converted to a 4 day working week if it wasn't something that he started out doing. I think it's that initial changeover that would be the hardest thing to stick to.
It's always great to be reminded to step away and remember why we do what we do, it can easily be lost in the complexity of problem solving. Nice article.
I have recently signed up to AgelList and I find myself on it most evenings now, seeing what new companies and products are about. From a entrepreneurs point of view it's great to see what kind of products are being actively mentored and invested in too.
I hadn't considered it from this point of view. Although a tad extreme, as they did mention partnering with Campaign Monitor to aid the move for customers, I can imagine I might have been a bit miffed to see a service I regularly use be shut down.
It would be interesting to here some ex-customer perspectives on this.
Yeah I completely agree with this. There is an attitude just like this in England at the moment. There aren't enough graduates using their initiative and being creative in either finding jobs or making work for themselves to fight the declining level of jobs. The assumption is, leave school, go to University, get a job. Unfortunately for them that route is failing now.
In the past, when less people were attending university, this would be true as in getting a degree you were putting yourself into a fairly exclusive group. Now though, when so many are getting degrees, you need to go above and beyond them to put yourself in a group as exclusive as the degree would give you a generation ago.
Yeah i think you're spot on, it's that ability to shine out from the crowd that is required. Although i guess the exclusivity of being a graduate could easily return with recent hike up in fees within the last couple of years.
You certainly have better chance at getting job by going to university; unemployment rate is higher for non-grads. Also running your own business is not as easy as it seems; especially without the connections to get the contracts. Expecting the graduates to work for themselves straight out of university is unrealistic.
I don't know why I didn't make more of the conversion rate. I might have to edit the post and add some slightly more insightful data to this.