I just finished re-reading Ray Dalio’s Principles for the 2nd time. I read his first release years ago when it was available as a simple PDF file. This time I read his book.
Have you ever encountered a business and thought: “WTF, this thing makes money?”
There are so many business like that… “Hold on, your business does what?”
Everything you do in your business should be–first and foremost–in your customers’ best interest.
It’s taken me a lot of trial and error to figure out that simple heuristic.
I am a technology entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience designing high-performance software interfaces, product development, business operations and strategy, managing product teams and the software development lifecycle. Cofounder at Clearplan + Cleardata.
It’s been 2 years since I quit my job as a software engineer to go full-time on my startup Clearplan. My first, full-day on the job was April 1st. That’s right, April Fools Day. I didn’t plan it that way. But, in hindsight, it’s kind of cool because each year I ask myself if this thing’s a…