Hi everyone, I'm Fishskin. A while ago I invited a famous UP owner friend to hang out at our company and I shared with him a lot of what I've been going through since I started my business last year.
I used to speak about this with a sad face and a sigh of relief; but now, I have a little more confidence and relief because it seems to me that the team is finally on the right track!
One day, you'll be able to say the things that used to make you miserable with a smile on your face... that's growing up, isn't it?
I'd like to share with you what I've been up to in the last month... I finally have a "life" this time!
As a programmer + entrepreneur + programming instructor + self-publishing blogger, this recent month my focus has been mainly on tutorials, products, and collaborations.
My experience
1. Completion of the new project tutorial
At the end of August, I started a new teaching program called "Interview Brush-Up Platform", which takes you by the hand to make a real online project for our team. In order to let you grasp the fall recruitment, I to the speed of two issues a week of high intensity updates, only 1 month's time to finish, including 100,000 words of text tutorials + more than 30 hours of video tutorials + resume writing + interview questions.
During that time, I was in my office almost every day closed liver tutorials, even on weekends, high production like that.
2、Products
Right now I've got my teammates focusing their efforts on 2 core products -- Programming Navigator and Interview Duck. In the last month, these products have gone through a sea change, so to speak!
The first is to help people learn to program
There's also a programmer's brush-up that helps you prepare for interviews efficiently
Many of the questions on Interview Duck are organized by me personally, without using crawlers, and I have optimized the expression of each question specifically to make you understand better. Doing the product with heart is worthy of the friends who support us.
Of course, the product development and upgrading, it means that we must do publicity and promotion, so that more users to use. For me, to do publicity and promotion than writing code to do tutorials more tired, because the code can run on the line, tutorials explained to let others learn enough, but publicity and promotion of the team's hopes, if not done, we can not feel the significance of the development of upgraded products, the team's morale will have a certain impact.
3. Cooperation
I've been involved in a number of collaborations in the last month, some of which I've been invited to, and some of which I've been able to secure on my own. For example, I was invited by the JetBrains development tools team to share their new AI assistant product at the Ali Yunqi conference. To be honest, it's really tiring to give offline presentations. Traveling is not so bad, but the key is to spend a lot of energy to prepare the content in advance, which seems to bring me back to the scene of defending a competition in my college days.
In addition, our products have also reached cooperation with some well-known programming bloggers, and even organizations, later have the opportunity to introduce to you slowly~
4. Other
Aside from these work priorities mentioned earlier, this recent month has been pretty rich for me.
I started to focus on my physical health by doing more exercise, such as going to boxing classes 2 ~ 3 times a week. Why did you learn boxing? Because it's practical! Exercise and learn a new skill at the same time, two birds with one stone.
In addition, I will pick 2 nights a week to share live, maybe it's a mock interview, maybe it's a Q&A session, or just a chat, it's not really a job for me, it's purely a personal hobby, and I kinda like to talk to my friends, and I'm happy if I can help some of my students.
By the way, there is a very important thing, my new book will be published soon, the publisher sent me 5000 autograph cards, let me sign them and send them to you. 5000 ah, I have to sign more than ten hours, but I still insist on handwriting each one, then please support me!
Team Management
Some students must be curious, fish skin where you have so much time, and liver tutorials, and products, and promotion, and pull cooperation?
In fact, that's exactly why I think the team is on the right track.
When I first started my business, I was still used to doing everything myself; but now the team's division of labor configuration has been complete, but also after such a long time of bonding, we can not only do their own duties, there is also a very strong autonomy, able to push their own products to improve, rather than all waiting for me to "call the shots". Now I have been slowly liberated, more is to set a planning, help control the product design and technical program is enough, a lot of details do not need me to care about, so there is more time to do other things.
Maybe my management skills have slowly improved, a team of a dozen or so people is basically stress-free, and it's true that practice is the best way to grow.
Also two days ago, in order to encourage everyone, I sent a team salary increase notice in the general group, so that we usually pay more attention to the results. Although our fish factory does not have the same grade promotion system as big factories, but the salary increase is inevitable, efforts should be rewarded.
I feel that since I started my business one and a half years ago, I have been under a lot of pressure from external voices, competition, environment, etc. But before that, more pressure still comes from the internal team instability, frequent changes in plans, I am multi-tasking, and I have too much to worry about. Now that the team has stabilized, people's hearts are united, and they can help me share the burden, I think the company is on the right track. I have confidence in myself, as long as the team of students to support me, can follow me with one heart to let go of the work, my pressure will be a lot less, but also more confident in the development of the company.
future plans
This coming month, my focus will be on self-media creation, before I was busy leading the team to work on the product to talk about the project, the efficiency and quality of the update is not as good as it should be. I still hope that I can be happier to do some interesting content, dry knowledge sharing, but also let everyone feel happy, like spring breeze.
In addition, 1024 Programmer's Day is coming soon, I am looking for this year to engage in some activities ah, for the time being, there is no good idea, you are welcome to give us some suggestions.
Finally, I really want to open offline stores, purely personal interest. Only at present too busy, and inexperienced, is still in the learning stage, usually also looking at a variety of cases of loss. When I have stabilized my online business, I'll definitely get one and give it a try.