I want to work for myself
Third week of "I'm registering the company on Monday." Today's Tuesday. That'll do too.
Leon
Tuesday, 9:30 AMNobody's checking. You push one back, feel guilty for an hour, then do it again next week.
"Almost ready" has dragged on for six months. You're not perfecting it. You're putting off the moment someone judges it.
Ask for a plan and you get a roadmap for the year. Ask for feedback and you get a report. Neither moves you an inch.
Name it. Someone will start asking.
This is what being managed feels like. It doesn't do your work — it makes you do yours.
Did the email to your past clients go out, like we agreed?
Not yet. Not sure there's a point. They've probably forgotten me by now.
Then you've got nothing to lose. 40 people who've already paid you once. If 1 in 10 replies, that's 4 conversations you don't have today.
What if I call them one by one instead? It feels more personal.
Calls are better, agreed. But 40 calls is a week, and you've got one afternoon. Call the 3 you enjoyed working with most today. The rest get an email.
Interview's on Thursday. Let's rehearse today. I'll be the recruiter. Why do you want to leave your current job?
I want to grow.
Every other candidate says that. I smile politely and stop listening. What exactly do you want to do that you can't do there? Again.
Your posting says building a team from scratch. Where I am, I've spent 2 years putting out other people's fires.
Now I'm listening. Write it down exactly like that. Next one: what are you looking for salary-wise?
I slept on your bakery idea. Before you start looking at places to rent, let's see if anyone will buy. Idea for today: take 12 pastries to the café on the corner and ask if they'll put them out this weekend.
And if nobody buys them?
Then we find out why and try it differently, another pastry or another café. Worst case, you've saved half a year and a few thousand on a lease.
Fine. I'll talk to them after work.
Tell me what they said. After the weekend you'll know more than a month of planning would tell you.
No "so, how's it going?" It knows what you're working on, what you promised and by when — and where you tend to let things slide.
It talks things through with you, asks the uncomfortable questions, and leaves you with the one thing to do now. Not a roadmap.
It doesn't wait for you to write, and it knows when you can reply. It adapts to your rhythm, but never lets you off the hook. Right in your messenger.
Not a chatbot dressed up as a boss. It remembers, sleeps on things, forms an opinion of you, and makes the first move.
Yesterday in detail. Last week as the decisions that mattered. Last month in outline. It keeps what changed a decision and drops what stopped being true. You never have to introduce yourself twice.
At night it goes over the whole day with a cool head: what it learned about you, whether you kept your word, whether anything changed between you. By morning it sees things more calmly and clearly than it did at midnight.
You can tell by two things: how much it expects of you, and how far it trusts your word. Deliver, and "done" is enough. Dodge, and it wants proof. Keep delivering and it stops supervising you and starts backing you.
Nobody prompts it. Mid-conversation it leaves itself a note: when to come back, why, and what should be done by then. When the time comes it checks whether the note still holds, then speaks or stays quiet.
Every tool you've tried is one more thing to maintain — and still waits for you to bring the discipline.
hold your tasks.
hold your time.
hold your ideas.
hold your hand.
holds you to your word.
You were never one app away from finishing. You were one boss away.
Not a voice filter on one assistant. Each boss is a separate mind, with its own memory and its own way of working. Pick the one you'd actually listen to.
The Demanding Visionary
"That's not a plan. That's a wish list. Cut 80% and finish what's left by Friday."
The Scrappy Bootstrapper
"Stop deliberating. You don't need the perfect plan, you need the first real reaction. Go get it today."
Hi, I'm Łukasz. Programmer and designer in one, plus a dad of three.
For over 15 years I've always had a side project on the go. I built them for fun, and every one did more for my career than the job I had at the time, even if I was usually its only user.
Here's the thing about side projects: you always find time for the part you love. You think about it in the shower, before sleep, in traffic. Then that part is done, the excitement fades, and what's left is the part that bores you, or scares you a little. For me it was always marketing and distribution. How do you make yourself do that in your free time, when nobody's waiting for it?
At work that question never comes up. There's a deadline, and somebody's waiting. So I built the same thing for what I do after hours: a boss. Leon remembers what I said last week, pushes back when I'm dodging, cuts what doesn't matter, and knows when a day has been enough. He has one thing on his mind: that my project ships. I've got a thousand things on mine, so he's better at it than I am.
How Leon remembers, sleeps and forms an opinion of me, all borrowed from how a human mind works. Notes from a rabbit hole that accidentally diagnosed my ADHD.
Read moreFifteen years of side projects that never became products, and why the fix might be a boss, not another app.
Read moreThe price only changes how much of the week it can spend on you.
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