Making work a lot more like play. Whether you are running a business, leading a team, burned out, or bored...there's a better way to do it. Survival is insufficient.
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I met Ben at a conference. We were playing with Legos...and making business decisions.
So, you already know the level of awesome he brings to the table.
He's wise beyond his years and hilarious to boot...and our conversation had me in stitches.
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Jake
Jake Brown (Playfessional)
Making work a lot more like play. Whether you are running a business, leading a team, burned out, or bored...there's a better way to do it. Survival is insufficient.
It's my first game in Marseille.The play comes in: "Mike, Veet, de gauche, Mistral, Cross, Burst, Veet, Veet."Part English, part French, Marseille accent over everything. Mouthpiece in. Three voices at once.I have no idea what to do. So, I learned some French that season... but before I could speak it, I had to play football in it. Before I could figure out the language, I had to figure out which part of the call was even for me.By the end of that season, I was the one calling plays. American...
Yesterday I hinted at something, Reader. Today it's real. I've launched a podcast called Doing Business with ADHD…and the first couple episodes are live right now. I co-host it with my friend Caleb Bogia-Curles, a Certified Financial Planner who works almost exclusively with ADHD entrepreneurs. We both have ADHD. We both run businesses. We've both spent a lot of time figuring out why the standard playbook kept falling short. The show is for business owners and founders who are late-diagnosed,...
I've been doing something a little different lately, Reader. You know me mostly as the guy who talks about revenue, marketing, doodling, and the messy reality of running a business. That's not changing. But I've been having a lot of conversations with clients, with peers, with people I respect…that keep circling back to the same thing. The way most business advice is built doesn't work for a lot of us. Not because we're not trying. Because the systems were never designed for the way our...