Distractions can destroy our productivity. But leading a startup means there’s a constant barrage of things that need to be handled. There are a lot of distractions: a call with a lawyer, a potential investor returning our call, responding to the latest Twitter post about our product, coding expenses so our team gets paid in a timely fashion, merging that last commit from the new developer we just hired who refuses to comment anything, figuring out how to run a refund in Stripe, and the list goes on and on.
When are we supposed to be productive when we’re in that place that we’re too small to hire people to deal with each of those but too big for them to go unattended? When we are under constant assault by all of these things?
Here’s the thing about answering those questions…
To read the rest of the article, check stout at https://www.bootstrappers.mn/post/dealing-with-the-distractions-in-a-startup