Things to do better (Part III)
Work/life balance
I spend too much time solving problems at work that don’t move the needle. As a result, I feel like I genuinely haven’t stopped working for at least two years (except our recent Turkey trip where I didn’t check email once).
I think there are a few reasons for this:
- I feel like TokBox’s story is incomplete, and as a founder of OpenTok finishing that story is my responsibility.
- I feel like carrying the team to the level I want them to achieve is solely proportional to how I elevate them.
- I have an epic trust issue compounded by an epic fear of failure.
But I finally got the feedback I needed, and the ecosystem of feedback has improved markedly.
As a result, I’m really going to focus on working smarter and not harder. I’m hoping the outcome is that I create work/life balance because my todo list is the set of items I make a difference against, and not just all the things we need to do.
Because I really don’t want to work at 1am anymore on email threads that I know don’t need me.
Which is actually hard for me to do, and I’m going to do it anyway 🙂