Alex
Alex
@alex@www.alexstandiford.com

Founder of Novatorius & creator of Siren Affiliates. WordPress engineer and partnership advocate helping businesses grow with flexible incentive programs.

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Siren Affiliates

  • Today has been all about meetings. I’ve got 3 new people on my team, and most of my Mondays go into helping to train them. So grateful to have help. I didn’t ask for it well enough in the past, and I’m working hard to do that more this year.

  • You know when you have an idea, and you want to go and work on it instead of doing the work in front of you? I resist that urge with my Todoist inbox. Sundays are for reviewing that inbox, adding notes, organizing, and cleaning up. Always feels so good to get that to inbox zero.

  • PUMPED to discover GTD has a book about GTD for teams! Instant buy for me.

  • Sunday’s agenda

  • Remember in th 2000s when we all developed “ad blindness?” That’s happening with AI content on social media right now. We can all tell when something is lazily slipped out with AI, and because of the lack of effort and thought that went into it, people just skip over it. If I wanted to talk…

  • Rent’s due. Got work to do this week. 1. Interview with some near-shore talent for future projects 2. Finalize estimate on proposal for future project 3. Finish blog post and email draft on personal brand 4. Follow up on existing leads TGIF. Been a hard week.

  • People: LLMs are simply predicting the right thing to say in response to you. They can’t think. Me: Uh…isn’t that exactly what we do in conversation?

  • The grind continues!

  • Today’s a grindy, non-glorious day.

  • Today in my “document all the things” binge, I’m documenting the recommended tooling and solutions we offer for slow websites, based on the result of a pingdom speed test. The hope is my team will be able to more-effectively recommend what I suggest to my clients.