I think this is one area where dashboards can help. Chart the metrics that are important to your organization, and prominently display them.
Chart the number of users on your site throughout the day. The number of times they do X or Y, that your app enabled them to do. Put a big counter on the wall for sales/new users/etc. Make a big deal when milestones are reached.
Bug trackers, user complaints, etc can definitely weigh us down. But hopefully there's some encouragement in the data that we're doing some things really right.
I have a six year old son with this same fascination. Sometimes I'll walk into my home office and find some mailer with a QR code sitting there waiting for me. His inquisitive mind just has to know what the phone will do with the code.
Regarding party mode, every photo that I take is not worth sharing. I'll often snap 2-3 trying to get one that looks halfway decent. I don't want to automatically share the poor quality ones along the way.
Yep, agree 100%. I've been telecommuting full-time since 2006. It's not just discipline to work though - as someone else mentioned in this discussion, you've got to pull yourself away from work too.
So discipline and balance, really. Pretty fundamental skills for success, but maybe not skills that everyone applies at home?
Totally. Been full time self-employed since '99 in Uni and I've had to learn discipline, routines, and maintaining all areas of my life. Sucked at a lot of it for many years, still improving.
The one thing I've realized there's always something to improve. If I was finished improving it means I'm not busy enough most days, lol.
