F2 Weekly #101 | Let's compromise As I mentioned before, I recently moved abroad. ?The n. 1 on my to-do checklist was finding a new home. ? ✅ This is never an easy task, but in my case it was particularly challenging ?due to the city's volatile housing market. ? I mean, I wished to have it [...]
F2 Weekly #100 | Do you have an A-team? An unbalanced team is not a team. ⚖️ When you hire a group of people, ? don't assume you hired a team. ? You have to account for many things like each member's personality ?and how it fits in the team. ?You have to account for different levels of [...]
F2 Weekly #99 | Cleaning out my closet Cleaning out my closet. ? Literally. ? I've been moving and not just across the city, but abroad. ?️ My number one tip for the challenge: PURGE. ? It's absolutely necessary. The amount of things we accumulate that we don't need is ridiculous. ? Big changes, such as moving, force us to [...]
F2 Weekly #98 | How do you react? When you’re faced with a problem or challenge ? you can react in various ways. You can: Ignore it ? and do nothing about it. Now, that’s bad. ? Try to do something about it and quit if the first try doesn’t work out. Now, that’s better, but not ideal. ? [...]
F2 Weekly #97 | Make it profitable Over the last few weeks we’ve held 4 editions of ? Incinerator - Nothing is lost. Everything is transformed. One of the mentioned learnings from the events kind of stuck with me. ? "Start-ups are companies. And companies are built to make money. ?" Such an obvious claim,❗yet often overlooked in [...]
F2 Weekly #96 | Keep calm & move past failure Why is talking about our failures so difficult? ? Is it us? It is peer pressure? Media? I think it’s because we tend to define ourselves and others by the final outcomes. ?️ By the pictures we take. ? By the awards we have. By the image we [...]
F2 Weekly #95 | Know your value Value ? The regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something. We all have different perceptions ? of the value that the things around us have. What's valuable to us also isn't straightforward or static.? It changes with time and with the context [...]
F2 Weekly #94 | Kudos to you Sometimes you get the recognition ?️ and appreciation ? for the work that you do and sometimes you don’t. Sometimes you deserve it ✅ other times you don't. ❌ Though the recognition is highly rewarding and makes us feel good, it's not something we should depend on. ? If we do work that matters,? [...]
F2 Weekly #93 |Hack bureaucracy Lately I’ve been dealing with Portuguese governmental bureaucracy. ? Surely you’ve faced similar challenges in the past, so you know the feeling. ? First lesson learnt. You cannot fight it. It’s stronger than anything. ? Nobody knows exactly how it functions (especially not folks at junta de freguesia ?). But it does and the [...]
F2 Weekly #90 | Perfect timing Timing is critical. ? Whether regarding something basic such as catching a metro/train/plane. ? Or something more complex as making a contract ? or launching a company, product or service. ? If you're too early ⏳ or too late, ⌛ it's bad. I believe there are two ways of dealing with the question of timing. We [...]
