yo I'm Zack, welcome to my world! Who are you? Check out my me page! \ \ What is this? It's my own little corner of the internet. A space where I w...
My definition for admin - Stuff that is painfully boring to do, but important. Including but not limited to: Doing your taxes Renewing your passport Having enough money in your bank account for this month's rent Cancelling a free trial before it charges you for the month Remembering to pay off this month's credit card bill Having enough clean clothes to wear for the week Changing your bedsheets…
So it was my birthday yesterday, and my friend was kind enough to buy us tickets in a swanky cinema to watch the new Spider-man movie. There were 2 options for seating. One was downstairs (deluxe) and the other was upstairs (standard). I didn't let him buy the deluxe ones because I didn't think they were worth it at all. We got to our seats, and after watching a few ads, I looked down and realised…
Here's the definition I came up with using my own life experience: A professional is someone who doesn't let their personal shit get in the way of getting work done. If something needs to be done, you can trust that a professional will get it done, one way or another. Work can mean be posting a blog, taking a sales call, interviewing a candidate, writing code, launching a marketing campaign,…
Using wired headphones make me much more productive. Here's why: They're a single use device. I only use them when I'm working, so when I put them on, my brain goes into work mode. I tend to get a headache when I wear AirPods for too long - these don't. It allows me to concentrate for longer. A wired connection just works. It saves me brain power from worrying about whether my laptop is going to…
Write 500 words of gibberish without editing myself Sift through the gibberish until I find an idea good enough to write a post about Write as much as I can on the idea Realise I've written too much and lost my point Rewrite the post until I find my point again Realise I forgot to write a title ??? Post it
I found this quote while watching a Jordan Peterson lecture. Here's my understanding of it: Everybody wants to be great. But nobody wants to pay the price of looking like an idiot to get there. I know exactly what it feels like. I've always wanted to be a great writer, and I've written for many years, but it's always been in private. If you look at this website, you'll realise that there's not a…
Here's 4 things I've learnt from working in sales since graduating University: If your product is truly great (and I mean so great that people cannot contain their excitement for it), then marketing will take care of itself. People can't help but tell everyone about your product and how amazing it is. They'll make videos about it, start reddit threads, and will be sending personal thank-you notes…
I spent most of my today in the 'Dark Playground' . Everything I did was spent procrastinating writing today's blog, and it's now 10:37pm and I'm still not done. The worst part of all of this is I didn't even enjoy the stuff I did while procrastinating. This is just a friendly reminder that procrastinating important work is soul-killing and destroys the relationship you have with yourself. Have a…
Writing well is probably one of the most difficult and frustrating things anyone can do to themselves (not saying I'm a good writer - I have a lot to learn). Putting words on the page isn't the hard pat - I'll write and write and write for 60 minutes with no problems. But then when I read back on my writing, I think to myself, "what the hell am I even writing, and why would anyone read this?" That…
So I got called a man-child the other day. And it hurt. Like a lot. I tried to defend myself by explaining all the reasons that I wasn't a man-child. But as you can imagine, that only made things worse. Even though this thing happened a week ago, I keep replaying it in my mind. I unconsciously get angry and mad that she said that about me, and about how she's completely wrong. But that's the…