I just got finished reading Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, which has sparked a thousand ideas. The way they talk about business is the way I think about business. That is, my little hobbyhorse operation isn't going to turn into a multi-million dollar corporation. I'm not going to get acquired. No one will invest money in my operation (nor would I really want anyone to). Yet what I do is a business all the same, in that it brings in money for my family. Books like Rework help me put that into perspective. This is a business just as much as any operation, and so I should treat it as such. While the business is, and likely always will be, just me, my tools, and my hands, that doesn't mean I can run it without a little help. Perhaps it's not a human who will provide that help. Maybe I'll scale to the point … Continue reading »