Assumptions.

It remains an open question whether any consumer truly gives a shit about the meaning of local.  

Life Question.

I remember constantly asking myself "What the fuck are you doing with your life?" over the last 6 years.  Similarly, I was always pounding my head on the wall wondering "What are you going to do?  Do you know what you want to be doing?"

Fortunately, the answer is exactly what I am doing now.  Unfortunately, it remains to be seen whether I'm going to get better at it.  But at least I am doing what I am supposed to be doing.   Pretty lucky.  (and broke.)

-- Wrapped up 25 biz emails
-- Emailed printers about business cards (after research)
-- Freaked out a little bit about something I can't talk about yet.
-- Emails with intern.
-- Set up meeting with Sea Bean Goods.
-- Got some sleep.

Also.

Other irrelevants.

Met with ben Friedman - operations and finance guy from small social media firms.
Arranged Bug Bash email

Re-reached out to Do or Dine, Eat, KBBK

Apparently Ben got great traction with the trucks.

Ja Wanna fuckin update?

There are two threads to this update.

1) Things are going incredibly shittily.
2) Things are going incredibly well.

We are starting to build a book of clients. We are starting to see very active participation from food trucks and other microbusinesses.

We still haven't launched. This is super painful. It's been nearly 9 months of my life and I still have nothing to show for it. If you want it see it, it's at smallknot.com. We need to launch. I wake up with a flood of intense thoughts every single morning about the urgency. We have the *perfect* client, but they need time. We are starting to see more competitors every single day.

Now onto the stuff that's irrelevant for you.

• Met with Brooklyn Roasting
• Met with Egg
• Built wireframes for business search page
• Reached out to Radish and Sea Bean Goods
• Emailed with Echoing Green
• Stressed the Eff out over the stressful Techstars process.
• Updated the Specs doc with concepts of "project type" and the "endorsement concept" of Lenddo
• Worked with intern on Twitter strategy
• Did legal work for noformat so we could get logo work. 

Don't even worry about this.

I had to move my daily work diary from a shared to doc to here. None of this will interest anyone but me like 5 years from now.

February 7
- Met with Erin Barnes from IOBY
- Met with Matt Hall from Docracy
- Planned internship tasks
- Prepared emails to Wmburg businesses

February 6
- Emailed KBBK
- Emailed Mark Foggin
- Egg profiles 1-4, Egg email
- Prep for Erin Barnes meeting
- Looked at business cards and logos

February 3
Bug bash City with JP
February 2
- Met with George and Holly from Egg
- Met with Steve from Gourmet Guild
- Expense Reports
- Drafted Villager Brief for Mark Foggin
- Echoing Green Response

December 29
-Reacb out to Do or Dine
-Met with Eat Greenpoint
-Reach out to Marc Schapiro
-Signed up for GA classes
-Applied to Beta Brooklyn
-Budget for Echoing Green (ridiculous)
December 30
- Met Alex Crosier from Granola Lab
- Bug bashing / tracking
- Editing copy for website / emails
- Finished Mister Hotpot post

January 2
- TechStars Application
- Echoing Green
- AJ discussion / Planning meeting
- Learning that IE is a bag of shit
- Blogpost on small business lending
- Meeting with Jason
January 3
- Emailed George
- Emailed 10 businesses
- Learned about Lucky Ant
- Echoing Green
- Meeting James
- Tech Stars Happy Hour
January 4
- Tech Stars Application
- Write Copy for Error with Paypal
- Echoing Green
- Script writing for Tech Stars
- Meeting Marisa Wu
If you don’t have it, fake the shit out of it.
This is good PR. That you aren’t really paying for.
January 9
- Emailed Rev
- Business Brochure
- Update rolodocs
- Sent page to Do or Dine
- Twitter with Michael Geer
- Sea Bean Goods email
January 10
- Talked to Bianca at Trunk
- Purchased Small Knot, SmallKnot Twitter coordination
- Emailed businesses
- Codecademy
- Techstars Application
January 11
- Techstars Video testing
- Front-end developer tweak tracking
January 12
- Tech Stars script revisions
- Commercial script
- Reach out to Michelle at Verizon and Linda
- Email with Mark Fogger
- Email with Black and Blanco
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.

So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
January 13
- Team Video draft
- Call with Jason
- Repass Tech to Ben
- General Assembly Product Management
- Emailed Egg
- Drafted to Eat Greenpoint
January 23
- Finished TechStars Application
- Phone call with Brian Kaminer
- Testing on website
- Set up meeting with Mark Foggin
- Art of the Cold Call
- Started Making Ideas Happen
- Email to Eat Greenpoint
- Emailed interns
January 24

- Respond to David Tisch
- Redrafted all FAQs
- Email with Michael Jacober
- Re-contacted Rev and Vanessa
- Notes on Cold Calling.
- Meeting with Mark Foggin
- codecademy
- looked at Sab Farhi wireframing software
January 25
- Call with Michael Jacober of Morris Grilled
- Emailed Rev
- Emailed i8ny
- Kombucha Brooklyn - ohh yeah!
- PayPal testing
“My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned to myself for each one of my undertakings. I shall go even further: my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the claims that shackle the spirit.” - Igor Stravinsky
January 30
- Intern interviews with Cliff Katz and Stephanie Brook
- USV Product Slides
- Emailed Do or Dine
- Emailed Jordan from Eat
- Emailed Mark Foggin
- USV Product Session
-Skipped Product Management Class
- Signed up for Team Treehouse