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It\u2019s a Snow Day for Ben, and Derrick shares his woes about setting up his home office with two new, Dell monitors and his MacBook Pro featuring only two USB-C ports for a hub. You would think that laptops would offer more of a variety of ports. Other than that, things are going great for Derrick.

On March 5, Derrick pushed out his manifesto via Twitter. In response, people shared, retweeted, and posted supportive thoughts and messages. Developers resonated with his message. And of course, there were a few skeptics who wondered how Derrick\u2019s ideas were different from other team communication and management options. There will always be multiple tools that can be used, but Derrick has a particular approach to what he offers.

Today\u2019s Topics Include:

Maker vs. Manager: A good way to draw a line between how different people feel about a tool
\n\u201cThis is people problem, not a tool problem\u201d There are a lot of people who just don\u2019t get it.
\nTools help guide the way users use the product and how your team works
\nSome tools generate stress and interruptions rather than constructive work progress
\nGoal: Communication centralized in one place
\nEmail is now a black hole, and no longer for actionable items
\nImportant information can get lost in all the noise created by some tools
\nDerrick plans to keep his email subscriber list warm by not over-emailing them without a product available yet
\nDerrick has received 400 emails so far as a result of his Twitter push and plans to do outreach, development, and validation with customers
\nAttribution Tracking App: Ben encouraged Derrick to request pre-pay for future products, like for the app he was thinking about building; pre-payments offers validation
\nDerrick has not determined a price plan or how to sell the dream yet
\nDerrick plans to keep thinking through product decisions on pen and paper
\nDeliver on the promise of the tool guiding people to use good communication patterns
\nTools need to maintain connectedness
\nEntrepreneurship Porn: Share your thoughts, ideas, process, and journey with others
\nEngagement and Authenticity: A give-and-take between you and your subscribers
\nJournal milestones; the more chronicling, the better
\nDerrick\u2019s prototype includes Phoenix, Elixir, and GraphQL
\nBen shares his experience with Haskell vs. Elm; he has more questions than answers at this point
\nHaskell has a chance of being the gateway drug of functional programming languages
\nAttend meet-ups and conferences to learn more about Haskell and Elm
\nWith programming languages, you need to be willing to make some sacrifices
\nBen is beginning to appreciate aspects of project management and positively influencing processes

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Links and resources:

Ben Orenstein Website; Twitter
\nDerrick Reimer Website
\nBasecamp
\nTwist
\nDrip
\nCalendly
\nJason Fried
\nStartup Stories Podcast
\nGraphQL
\nElixir
\nPhoenix
\nHaskell; Programming in Haskell book
\nElm
\nRuby on Rails
\nThoughtbot