I’m good at wearing hats.

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.