#5 - Strategy is the art of the possible
Building a company means keeping a direction while responding to opportunities that never arrive exactly as planned. In this short Friday-night update, Kasper explains why computerlove.tech will miss an internal product deadline—and why that does not mean the company has stopped moving forward.
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Hello everyone and welcome to Ship the Diff episode number 5 I guess.
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So it's late at night, it's Friday.
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Me and Christian have had a workshop and I'm on my way home.
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Normally we have them in working hours but today we had one from 3 o'clock to 8 in the evening.
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So that's just great, Friday evening.
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So I'm going home to my family now and I've been having a pretty nice week.
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I've had one day in Aarhus, one day in Copenhagen and yeah, it's just great.
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Really a lot of things going on at the moment.
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We're having a lot of workshops, we're also having a lot of other interesting stuff coming up in the future.
- 00:52
More to tell about that in the future.
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Yeah, and I've been talking a lot about this product we're developing and we are definitely developing that.
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But we are also struggling with prioritizing time for developing it.
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And we have actually internally set a deadline for launching it.
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Monday I think?
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We're not going to hit that one.
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We need to postpone it.
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But also, you know, in many ways I've learned that all this business stuff is actually, you know, it's...
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I really like this term, an art of the possible, right?
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Det muliges kunst.
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It's called in Danish.
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And it's really, that is really true, you know, because, you know, there is your vision, your strategy, everything you imagine that you're going to do and your plan.
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And then there's reality, right?
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And opportunities, they just emerge, right?
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And sometimes you have a plan to do something, but opportunities emerge.
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And it's sort of like on strategy, but not entirely how you imagined it.
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But you have a good feeling that it will move you forward, right?
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Towards something, some direction, right?
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And that is kind of like happening right now.
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We're still really, really strong releasing this product and everything, but, and also doing it.
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But it's really dark here, I hope you can, like, hear me at least.
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So, yeah.
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The important thing, I guess, is that you're not just doing random stuff, right?
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Just saying yes to random gigs, random customers, wanting to do all sorts of stuff.
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But you're saying yes to the right things.
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That is kind of like getting you in the right direction.
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Even though it was kind of like not what you expected, but you still have a good feeling about it.
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And feel like that it will maybe open up doors for future opportunities.
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Or at least, you know, just be able to position you more favorably than just doing random stuff, right?
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And we're kind of like there right now, I feel.
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And I think my dear co-founders would agree.
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I need to make a video with Christian, introduce you to him soon, actually.
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He's a great guy.
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Look forward to, you should look forward to meeting him.
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Yeah.
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And then this week has also been about, you know, because Christian is, he has, he's a co-founder
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in this company and another company called North5.
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And we are, yeah, we are, you know, collaborating and, yeah, having also plans on collaborating more
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in the future.
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A lot of, there's been a lot of, you know, it takes work, you know, to figure out how to
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collaborate.
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And there's been a lot, there's been a big topic for this week.
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And also, we have actually been out in Danish city or I don't know what you call it, but
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yeah, a city called Herlev.
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It's pretty close to Copenhagen.
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And looked at an office, you know, actually at an office building where we have,
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it's basically an office with a, two rooms and a small kitchen.
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That's an entire floor, right?
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And we were out looking at that company with North5, the other company that Christian is
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a part of.
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And I've basically decided to say yes to actually renting that space, right?
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So we're actually going to have a space right now, right?
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And the only thing that maybe worries us the most is that if we're going to use it or like
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if we're on the road so much that we're actually not going to hang out there.
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But yeah, let's see how it goes, right?
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So, but we're pretty exciting to, that we have actually just today said finally yes to our office space.
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That's pretty cool.
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And it's actually a really cool place.
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The top of the building, an older building actually.
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An entire, you know, floor.
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I guess I'm going to give you a tour when we kind of like get it up and running.
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So, yeah.
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And also, yeah, just been busy doing stuff.
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I have a little bit forgot to record Ship the Diff until now on my way home late in the evening.
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And I'm alone with the kids all weekend because my wife is going to work.
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So I won't be having time to record there.
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So, yeah, just did it right here.
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Great.
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But I think that was the update for this week.
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I hope you have a great weekend and look forward to seeing you next time.
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Bye.