For the curious, here’s a glimpse of the types of things I work on daily as a tech-oriented startup founder:
- requesting information/providing feedback/doing QA/writing documentation for 1-3 consultants, or my business partner
- poking at 1-2 HR or legal tasks (not my favorite things, so if I didn’t poke at them nigh-daily they’d never get done)
- 2-5 most important UI tasks
- 1-4 most important backend/infrastructure tasks
- poking at 1-3 marketing/branding tasks
- the IP technology (if there’s time…this is the least interruptible work)
- updating and reprioritizing tasks
- wondering how many millions of things I’m forgetting
- making and drinking lots of tea
Other hats are generally less frequent, such as Executive and Accountant. I do not consistently wear all these hats daily; some days I set out to focus on 2 of them and only one other interrupts. Those days are very satisfying! Until I realize I’ve fallen behind with something.