Getting Real

Getting Real

While I am on PTO (as I am right now), my mind rarely strays far from Harper. Perhaps you could call this “ poor work-life bal­ance”, but I think oth­er­wise. I be­lieve that liv­ing a ful­fill­ing life is hard, so hav­ing one takes ef­fort. For me, part of hav­ing a ful­fill­ing life is to strive for great­ness. Harper has the po­ten­tial to be great, and I am partly re­spon­si­ble for get­ting it there. There­fore, part of liv­ing a ful­fill­ing life (for me) is to imag­ine ways to po­si­tion Harper so that it can best achieve its po­ten­tial.

That’s all a com­plex way to ex­plain why I am read­ing Getting Real by DHH and Jason Fried while on PTO. I apol­o­gize for all the cor­po­rate lan­guage.

A few years ago, I read Rework, an­other book by the same au­thors. In short, R…