Lunch Pail Daily

Some of the brilliance of transparent storytelling and building in public is not only the building an audience affects, it turns anything into a game. I ran into this packy article that describes this phenomenon well and reflects in this episode about how it all applies to Lunch Pail's infinite game.

Noticing helps us be more creative, find flow, and spot new trends. Unfortunately, we live in an age of distraction where the ability to be present is often lost. Jamming about some exercises to get better at paying attention from Rob Walker's The Art of Noticing.

It's this week in  review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (3/05/22 - 3/11/22)

Many popular business/product frameworks are inspired by concepts in completely different areas of study.

For example, phenomena with Meerkat inspired Andrew Chen’s atomic networks in the Cold Start Problem,  game theory inspires a lot of popular UX patterns, The Lean Startup is the business application of the scientific method. 

Jamming about this, and some areas of study I plan on delving deeper in at Lunch Pail Labs.

If you’re building a product it’s likely that you’re trying to change some behavior (ie switching from a competitor product, trying a new process).

In traditional software development, an opinionated framework gives you guard rails, starter code, and optimizes your path. I think there's a ton more opportunity for opinionated no-code tools, which will also make no-code easier for users without a design, analytics, tech background. 

I started a list of some low-lift (and opinionated) no-code tools here but wanted to jam more about the space and opportunity in this episode!

Recently read an every.to article about why we're not doing creative work. The author talks about two phases of creativity, exploration, and execution. In this episode, I jam about creative exploration as a practice and reserving time for creative exploration.

It's this week in  review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (2/25/22 - 3/04/22)

Recently ran into this happiness lab podcast episode about fighting the feeling of languishing (the tldr is the solution is flow). I've had a few more days than usual that feel like a slog and I think this was a good reminder. In today's daily update, I jam on some tactics I'll use moving forward to better embrace flow.