{"id":2818,"date":"2020-09-11T21:36:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T21:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-208265-2589390.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2020-09-11T21:36:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T21:36:14","slug":"cant-find-the-friggin-spoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angiecolee.com\/cant-find-the-friggin-spoons\/","title":{"rendered":"can\u2019t find the friggin\u2019 spoons"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my house, we have a game.<\/span><\/p>\n

I call it, \u201cWhere will I find X today?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

X could be a spoon, a dish towel, a spare roll of TP, maybe a light bulb.<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter where it is, it will definitely NOT be in the last place I saw it.<\/span><\/p>\n

And I am actually neither the creator of this game, nor am I a willing participant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was created by my boyfriend Andrew, who\u2019s an engineer. And I don\u2019t know if this is true of all engineers, but it\u2019s certainly true of MY engineer\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

He\u2019s always looking for a better way to do things.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSlightly more efficient\u201d is the name of his game.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the game is afoot x10 now that we\u2019ve both been working from home for the better part of six months.<\/span><\/p>\n

Usually it starts when I\u2019ve convinced myself making dinner is a thing I should do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

(In my defense, nobody told me adulthood would essentially be asking your partner what they want to eat every day until one of you dies\u2026 and then you still gotta actually MAKE the food. If it were up to me, the answer would be pizza. All day, every day.)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The conversation goes something like:
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>ME: hey babe, where is the pizza cutter?<\/span><\/p>\n

HIM: oh, right. I moved that to the drawer over by the fridge because we keep the pot holders in there and it\u2019s one less step for you when the pizza is done.<\/span><\/p>\n

ME: k\u2026 but I just took like 20 steps trying to find the thing so on balance maybe things don\u2019t need to move every time you clean\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

And then we both laugh because we both know he\u2019ll move something else tomorrow as part of his neverending quest for White Claw and Order.<\/span><\/p>\n

And I\u2019ll be temporarily annoyed\/unable to stop rolling my eyes when I discover THE SPOONS AREN\u2019T WHERE I LEFT THEM?!<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve noticed a similar trend in business\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

There are some folks (like me) who are more laid-back, who prefer a \u201cset it and forget it\u201d approach. Or maybe \u201cif it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m pro-hustle, anti-grind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Having worked in Silicon Valley for years, I don\u2019t believe in working around the clock, tweaking things just to have something new to show.<\/span><\/p>\n

That may bite me in the ass at some point as technology becomes even more ever-present in our lives, but to date\u2026 regardless of the changes that are constantly happening in the world, the fundamentals of human connection and good business still work, even as the platforms change.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once something works, I\u2019m content to let it run until it doesn\u2019t. Because once it\u2019s running and working, my attention will be on building other sources of revenue. Diversifying = power.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But there are other folks like Andrew, who are always tweaking, iterating, and perfecting. They obsess over the details, and aren\u2019t satisfied with \u201cgood enough\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the cool thing about that is – we balance each other out very well. Sometimes he can get me to make incremental improvements, and sometimes I can get him to not relocate the pizza cutter for the 27th time.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s critical to know who you are and how you operate\/want your business to run – and who your people\/partners\/contractors are and how they operate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Are you working together, or working against one another because you\u2019ve got different styles.<\/span><\/p>\n

One thing I know for sure, the party\u2019s over the moment I throw the pizza cutter instead of rolling my eyes at him and laughing.<\/span><\/p>\n

____________________________<\/span><\/p>\n

P.S. I read this draft to him out loud and we both laughed. I told him, \u201cHey I\u2019m making you look like an engineering genius and a hero!\u201d He said, \u201cI AM an engineering genius. And make sure you tell them I\u2019m humble too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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