00:00:00 - Pre Show

Special cameo by listener Brandy

Cold wallpaper ends up on the floor

Snowy ice dams on Tyler’s roof

00:02:56 - Show Start

3 times the “power intro”

00:03:58 - Follow-Ups 

From listen Becca

Garret - How do you fit 9 bookends into 3 minutes?

Avoid the FBI interrogation and continually ask permission

James “Sandler(ed)” an interview candidate

Darin - When you say “Cool story bro”... what does that mean?

To James it means “a slap in the face and time to shut up”

Darin - Are you still being challenged working only in your Zone of Genius (ZOG)

The combination of Co-Founder - Best Friend - Engineer Tim and Darin = 1 decent engineer

00:15:42 - The Headlines

Darin

Second strategic sprint if finishing up on Order Speed improvements

Eliminating things we are doing 

Millions of times a day

Thousands of times an hour

Hundreds of times a minute

Tens of times a second

Darin goes full “nerd” explaining the Infoplus backend tech

“Cool story bro!”

Darin’s magic pattern in a 2 week sprint

Week 1 = 3D Print a lot

Week 2 = Do the sprint work

Tyler

Product L10 Recap

Issue solved - Legacy support sucks your soul

Finally bought in to the “all meetings Monday”

March 1 is “D-Day” - all projects are due

Great interview for T3 support candidate

Garret

LT LTM = 3.17 (with a rough IDS)

Retail Sales Team

Great 4.5 L10

Everyone feeling the push for results

3PL Sales Team

Great L10s

Knocked out 5 issues

James - Just a couple as usual

Single threaded mind of James can equal bad presence in L10s

“When you’re a sour, pissed-off, below the bar CEO...people tend to notice

Can’t rely on EOS to “tell” you what issue needs fixing

Hiring, all the hiring

There’s a reason why we don’t let HR, Lawyers, or Accountants run the business

James changes his title to “best buddy” for interviews

00:49:23 - Topic 2 (1) Getting into the “Meat and Potatoes” of EOS - Data

May just be the single most important part of the L10 (the health of systems today)

Things we like and don’t like about Data

Garret’s Likes

You can’t improve what you don’t track

On a deserted island, it can tell you the current health

Provides a quantifiable or objective view of good days→weeks→months, etc.

The consistency of the weekly review

Garret’s Dislikes

We have historically ignored the numbers

Sometimes either too granular or not granular enough for the team reviewing them

Tyler’s Likes

Gives a quick snapshot of overall health

Making a missed number and issue and solving it immediately

Tyler’s Dislikes

Maybe to “trailing”

Having metrics we don’t take action on

Not every person has a number

Use Non-IDS of a metric as gauge for importance of the metric

Darin’s Likes (loves)

Loves the idea of it

Leading indicators

Trailing indicators

Darin’s Dislikes

We are not great at them

Never been a part of a good session creating them

Missed numbers every week are treated as “normal”

01:05:49 - Questions and Actual Answers (this time) 

What does a “Retail” team in sales consist of?

How do Ari and Tyler feel about being given Monkeys?

Can we finally see a video of Ari’s dinosaur walk?

01:16:05 - End of Show 

“These will be the end of our show”

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00:17:08 - Aftershow  

Darin on personal app development

Tyler on … “itching scratches”

Hosts, Garret Richardson, Tyler Samples, Darin Kelkhoff, and James Maes

Show Notes by Garret Richardson

Proofing and Title by Darin Kelkhoff

Editing, Mixing, and Mastering by Brenton Wainscott