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By Founding Ranter · · Family
You look for holiday options, receive newsletters. Save up to X%, super offers, etc and you find awesome offers, but then they are all outside from school holidays. You look inside this timeframe and boom, prices double & triple.
Yes, demand directs price, btu this is straight forward unfair to all families. With prices racing for new high scores the people who invest in our future should be better protected!
We spent three weeks getting permission to run a two-week test. By the time the green light came, the data we needed to test against was already stale.
Prompt: What is the worst version you have seen?
We now have six tools that each half-solve what one good system would handle. Integration is on the roadmap. The roadmap is managed in a seventh tool.
I wear noise-cancelling headphones eight hours a day just to think. When someone actually needs to collaborate, they send a Slack message anyway.
Prompt: What is the worst version you have seen?
We spent three weeks getting permission to run a two-week test. By the time the green light came, the data we needed to test against was already stale.
Prompt: Name the system that causes this most often.
The loudest summary wins. Quiet, high-impact work disappears unless someone influential repeats it. I spent a quarter fixing a critical system. Someone spent it writing a memo about fixing it.
Prompt: What would actually fix this?
We worked nights for three weeks to hit the date. The launch was quiet. Leadership posted about "great execution" on LinkedIn. None of us were mentioned.
Prompt: What would actually fix this?
Yes, I can start at 10. I also finish at 8. The total hasn't changed. The flexibility helps me schedule around the workload, not away from it.
Each one apologizes, reads the notes, asks me to explain again "just to make sure they have the full picture," then transfers me. The issue is not complex. The system just doesn't retain anything.
Prompt: What is the worst version you have seen?
To change how approvals work, I need an approval. From the people whose approval chain I'm trying to simplify. I've submitted the proposal twice. It's awaiting review.
Four people became two overnight. The work didn't disappear with the headcount. Two weeks later we got a values alignment deck. I still have it.
I built every slide over two weeks. He spent 20 minutes taking questions. Now he's the strategic mind behind the project. I'm the one who "helped out."
