Goals

Goals

1.  Build Perl RESTful service that inserts all the necessary records into the DB to build a courier.

2.  Build the URL to use the buildCourierObject.pm.

3. Revamp the Customer Flow Screens.

4.  Build the PM for Saved Addresses (use the Jobs Object PM as a template).

5. Use the PM to populate a CoreData object for Saved Addresses.

6.  Populate the SavedAddressViewController.

7.  Fix the buttons.

8.  Replan.

Future Resource

I'll probably never have to actually know this but I might want to train someone or get someone to run a class on this one day.  Maybe I'll have need but I kind of doubt it.  Then again EM probably knows everything about each of his projects so ...  here it is nonetheless:  Hadoop:

http://vimeo.com/cloudera/videos/page:1/sort:date

Pitch Decks

Dwolla:

Raised 50MM on this Pitch Deck

http://www.businessinsider.com/18-slide-pitch-deck-lands-payment-startup-dwolla-165-million-2013-4?op=1

Foursquare:

First Pitchdeck:

http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-the-first-pitch-deck-foursquare-ever-showed-investors-2011-12

AirBnB's First Pitchdeck:

http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-a-13-billion-dollar-startups-first-ever-pitch-deck-2011-9#-1

Friday and My Feelings

I really hate my job.  I don't like the work so much just because I'm not learning anything new.  I thought it would be cool to know everything about my job, exactly  how to do it and what to do, etc.  But it isn't.  It's really boring.  I'm not learning anything new and it's not so cool.

Past that, though I've added tremendous value to my business unit my boss still doesn't value me as a person.  She tells me in no uncertain non-verbal terms that I am not valued.  I so want to get up and just quit.  But I can not and will not right now.  There are two reasons for this.

First,  because there are no new challenges, though I could very well get into another position I'm not sure that I would be paid as well right now, so the first is monetary.

Second, I'm not in a position where right now I could move career wise into the position that I would like to move into.  I want to move into being an iOS Developer next.  But right now I don't have an app in the iPhone store and so therefore I can not go into an interview and say, yes I have an app.  Yes I developed a couple websites.  Yes, I am awesome.  Please give me my 200K and my contract, thank you very much.

Now I understand something that I heard about Carlos Ghosn, the current CEO of Nissan.  The narrator of Revenge of the Electric Car said he was a desperately disciplined, desperately smart man.  (One of my favorite quotes is, "Carlos Ghosn doesn't get up in the morning unless there's money in it.")  

In order to make it in business you have to be desperately disciplined.  You have to subvert, submerge, and even smother your emotions in order to do well.  At every sneer, at every slight, though my pride is offended and I am annoyed even at some points incensed I must put my tongue on a leash, control my facial expressions, smile, laugh, and quietly seethe, biding my time.

Part of being wealthy is a war of attrition.  This is a war of attrition and self discipline.  Who ever is standing at the end wins.  I am getting too emotional.  Dial it back.

What I must do is build my app.  Then put out a resume.  Then build my website.  Then put out a resume.  Then build another app.  Then put out a resume.  By the end of the year I should have two websites up and two apps out there and one of my websites should be monetized.  That should be more than enough to get a new job.  It should be more than enough to launch my third company and to get VC funded. 

Do I want to be as successful as Carlos Ghosn?  Desperately.  Dare I say even more so.  Then I must be more disciplined.  My emotionally constrained.  Stronger. Until I can strike and win.

A battle is won or lost before it is ever fought.

Goals for May 2nd, 2013

Goals:

1.  Fix the address check RESTful application

2.  Implement the RESTful application in the CourierRegistrationCoreViewController

3.  Implement the CoreData piece in the CourierRegistrationCoreViewController

4.  Implement the RESTful application in the CourierAddressViewController

5.  Implement the CoreData piece in the CourierAddressViewController

Bored@Work

I'm grateful for my job.  Very grateful.  Don't get me wrong. It allowed me to break into the sixes. And I'm grateful for that.  Very grateful.  I have a solid life because of it.  But I'm also very bored by it.

I'm learning nothing new. I'm able to perform at a high level and there really are very few twists and turns.  I could do more. I could actually hold two exact jobs like this and still do well.  Actually that'd be pretty cool considering I'd get paid twice as much. 

But the truth is money doesn't really do it for me in a pure sense.  Yes, I like money. Yes I need money.  But money is a tool. I am accumulating it but I'm not honing my skills at the same time.  I am working right now on an iPhone app and if I can get that into the marketplace then I'm going to apply to another job where I can actually hone my iOS skills and my web programming skills. I'm not intellectually stimulated here and the people aren't that sharp or passionate about their work or really about anything except BS and getting home on time. 

I look forward to working somewhere where I can program my ass off, increase my skills, and make money while I work on my craft at home.  But first I've got to get this iPhone App done.  That means no NY Knicks tonight.  It means going home and getting to work.

Yesterday I went home and got to work and enjoyed it thoroughly.  I turned off all television and everything else and just opened up my laptop and Malibuyao.  And I accomplished my task.  It was pretty cool.  

I think tonight I'll try to do two things:

First, get the Twilio piece to work.

Two, build another object that tests addresses.  

If that works then I should be able to, on Thursday, get the two of the screens on my View Controller to work.  

-- Pushing the information into Core Data and moving on.