{"id":11147,"date":"2016-12-02T01:52:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T17:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=11147"},"modified":"2016-12-02T01:52:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T17:52:42","slug":"early-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2016\/12\/02\/early-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Employee"},"content":{"rendered":"

source<\/a><\/p>\n

+1 to this. I’m a relatively early employee at my team, and while my founders don’t really mind whether I’m in the office or not, they do know that I give a damn and that our work is on my mind 24\/7.<\/p>\n

And I don’t mean that in a workaholic sense. I mean that if that anything arises or emerges, I respond to it immediately out of genuine interest rather than out of obligation. It’s just the way things are, I think, when you’re that much closer to the “value source”. (How I choose to think about it.)<\/p>\n

Things like rigorously structured work days are constructs that can only exist in large companies. I’d use a naval metaphor: If you’re working on an Aircraft Carrier or a huge Cargo Ship, you can take sick days, you can operate tight schedules. If you’re working as part of a small team on a little rowboat, though, the concept of a schedule itself is rather ludicrous\u2013 just mutual fiction.<\/p>\n

The real schedule is closer to “do whatever it takes to get it done, and take whatever breaks you need to stay fighting fit”.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

source<\/a><\/p>\n

Word.<\/p>\n

Here’s the funny thing, which makes employment a lot like romance- I DO think about my product even when I’m not in my office, but I do this because my employer and colleagues are awesome, and I want to make all of us successful, and we have a common purpose and goal.<\/p>\n

People won’t love you because you insist it. They can’t. You’ll have to be lovable to begin with, and you do that by being goddamn awesome.<\/p>\n

Possessiveness is for the unenlightened, needy, insecure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

source +1 to this. I’m a relatively early employee at my team, and while my founders don’t really mind whether I’m in the office or not, they do know that I give a damn and that our work is on my mind 24\/7. And I don’t mean that in a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[828],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-2TN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}