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I don’t like it on the floor. I leave a step stool in front of my door when I order food and have also left a note so the driver puts the food on top of it but sometimes it still gets placed on the floor :/

I think a lot of companies use them but with a different name: Project Briefs or Project Scope.

Assuming I understand what you meant which is putting into paper what one want to do so it can be discussed, modified and approved.

Not many big companies will move forward with projects without one.

Check n8n (open source) and integromat (SaaS).

Anatomy of Peace and Leadership and Self Deception by the Arbinger institute.

If you read it and it doesn’t change your life you ping me and I will refund you the money you paid for it.

I was once 21 and I had the same thinking as you did and as OP does.

I thought I knew better than these people telling me I knew nothing and it turns out… I was wrong.

That’s the great thing about getting older and hopefully wiser. You start to understand you know nothing and use that to learn from people who know more.

I don’t want it to sound bad, but I’m sure it will sound like that.

You are 21 years old. Unless you are not telling us something, you just started living. You haven’t learned anything about anything.

What kind of meaningful work do you expect to complete?

If you truly want to make a difference and have a purpose, wouldn’t it make sense for you to learn something about the world or the people in it?

I might be gatekeeping it and you might be a special kind of person but statistically that is unlikely and your desire seem to come from all the motivation stuff that people put out there.

If you don’t know what they would lose if they were to get rid of you, how can you expect us to know?

If my team left my company they would lose knowledge that would take a decade to recover due to technology complexity + specific domain knowledge that no contractor would be able to pick up in a timely manner. Because of said knowledge the day to day operations would halt and no one would be able to run it, leaving all the people that use our work to make all the sales for the company unable to work.

You have to figure out what your value is, if any.

Edit: if I may add something for all tech folks out there: you don’t program. You use programming as a tool to generate value for the company and its customers. You have to know and understand by heart how said value is generated. Tech is the means to an end and is useless without knowing how it’s used.

You and your partners got into an deal, that I assume you agreed to, and now you think it’s a bad one and resent them.

The only way out is talking to your partners and see what you can come up with together.

Just make sure you don’t make a new deal that you will regret later and want to renegotiate again.

Also, take the time to think if you really want to own a company because, to me, it sounds like you really miss being an employee with a guaranteed salary. This “I’m worth X in the market” is not how you should be thinking as a founder and also not how you approach this with your partners. Your worth as a founder is what you can sell and nothing else.

You can’t have your cake (be a founder) and eat it too (have a guaranteed salary with a company with low income).

I’ll offer a different perspective. If I’m looking for an answer I want a concise and straight to the point explanation.

If I’m trying to understand about the dynamics of an interview or even understand how people smarter than me get to a solution, I might want to go through the whole journey.

I guess this part comes down to an editorial decision: are you trying to offer technical solutions or are you trying to do something else?

Knowing the answer to that question might help you decide what path to take.

Why don’t you use a keyboard to type the text and make it actually readable?

The content might be interesting but the barrier to understand it seems unnecessarily high to the point I don’t want to invest time to figure out if it’s worth it or not.

What stage are you in? What’s your background? It depends. There is not one book that covers everything you need to know.

What’s your point?

As others said, the chance of you making thousands of dollars is very slim if you don’t have a marketing plan or a pre existing audience and you just publish a book.

Since you said that you still have a year ahead of you, you can use that time (and bits from the book) to build that audience.

The income the book will generate also can vary depending on the sale strategy. I can’t remember who it was now but there was someone who sold a course or different products along with the book for various price tiers. You can also consider consulting/mentoring along with the book sale.

In addition, the book can also establish your authority in your area of expertise and you can use that to bootstrap a consulting business or increase your rates if you already do so.

At any case, if you use it well, a book can be a tremendous asset for you and advance your career and income in big ways.

Congratulations!

You got it

It’s a very common term.

Technical specification goes in. Developed software goes out.

It usually doesn’t work but that’s the premise.

You sound all over the place. It’s not clear what’s not working and what your arrangement is.

“I depend on them to survive right now”

What does that mean? Are they funding (paying you)? Are you working for free based on a vague promise?

I second the suggestion. Never thought I would read a book so meta, but I did and it was worth it.

Have you tried bringing this to him?

“Look, I have done A, B, and C and judging from your response I feel like you don’t trust me. Is that accurate? Am I’m misinterpreting it? I expected X, Y, and Z would happen, but it didn’t. Can you please help me understand where the disconnect might be? I really would like to achieve X, Y, and Z. How can I get closer to that? Or is that not realistic?”

Maybe “delivering” a lot is not what he values. You need to find what that is. You might be using the wrong tool to get in his good graces.

I think notion has an incredible value proposition for the price it costs.

It is a great PM tool if you apply Bullet Proof Workspace[1] and great at documents and collaboration.

I can’t think of a better tool that has both. Please let us know if you can find one.

If you break it into multiple tools, where you use one for PM and another for organization you’ll probably find better alternatives out there.

1 - https://www.notion.vip/bulletproof/

How about you work with him to figure out where YOU can change and adapt instead of expecting the other party to change at your will? If you are really open to learn and contribute he will see that and put you on a path to get what you want.

Assess where YOU can change/improve and a better future for you will usually follow.

Humans have this default behavior where they want everyone but themselves to change.

People on this forum are usually too good to find problems within. With folks here, usually the other party is always at fault.

This is the right answer. In other words, you take the next right step towards your vision. After that you take the next step and keep repeating it. Slowly and steady.

Eventually, if you succeed at the previous phase, you’ll have something that you can get help with and by then you’ll know how.

None of the “big” stuff we have today was born big.

Is there anything else in your life that you are not forced to do, but you do with consistency? I will take a wild guess and say “no.

I think you are asking the wrong question. From where I sit you have a discipline and consistency problem. Not a “I can’t build a product” problem.

Building anything in life takes time and patience. The reason you never finish anything is you don’t have those traits developed.

For all these years, what you have done is played with technology and learned new things. You didn’t actually try to build a product.

While the first is very valuable, it’s completely different than the second.

Isn’t it possible that you are not as ready as you think and that your leaders do not yet trust you to help them with more important stuff?

Could you use this opportunity to improve their process or even “teach” the company and team mates a few things here and there?

How about you show some leadership and drive them to where you think the team/company should go?

As I accumulated experience and worked with hundreds of people I found that people are most likely to complain and want things to be different but very rarely they want to change themselves or lead the change. The ones who do are the ones who succeed.

Just food for thought.

How is the work “disinteresting” and what would have to happen for it to become interesting?

Yeah. Look up “Wim Hof”

Isn’t there anything more important for you to focus on your business?

This is not my place to say, the thread is not about this, and downvote me if you want but it sounds like people go out of their ways to find things to take their focus away from what they should be really doing. Later, we get a Ask HN thread asking “Why my business have failed?” or “How can I get clients?”.

If all you do is play with technology your business won’t move forward.

There is a whole science behind communicating requirements to developers. Some of the keywords you might be looking for are: roadmap, user story, UML, technical specification, business requirements, and ui/ux prototype/wireframe.

this is pure gold

When you are more experienced you most likely have seen a lot of things throughout your career. Some of the things you saw may apply to this position but not to that one.

When you are interviewing, as a candidate, it is very hard to know what’s relevant and what’s not. Especially when the position is not strictly technical.

I love interviewing processes that nudge the candidate in the right direction so both sides can focus solely on talking about what matters.

I dislike interviewing processes where it takes half or more of the conversation just for both parties to figure out what they have in common so they can see if they are a match.