Building at the Crossover of Research and Entrepreneurship — Optimizing my Work Ethic
Framework to produce valuable work. Relevant for anyone who doesn’t get well-defined or externally imposed goals.
Before you start working for an organisation, you are basically working in solitude. And the challenge with working solo is that there are no defined and externally imposed goals. You don’t have a laid-out path.
This is a scenario I find myself in every other week or every other month. It is like working at the crossover of research and entrepreneurship.
Research to lay out the goals for your project and leverage entrepreneurship to create or build something that is valuable for someone out there. Aim for it to be truly remarkable. Even if it fails, it should prove your potential to build or solve things.
But this is easier said than done. It is a dynamic system with many moving parts and one can establish and perfect it by putting in consistent efforts over time.
Here’s what I have learned so far in the process of developing a framework that keeps me in the loop for the long run:
