MacPowell users, episode 623. Collaboration and project planning.

Hello everyone. This is David Sparks. I am joined as always by Steven Hacker. How are you today, Steven?

Good David. How are you? I am excellent man. I cannot state that enough right now. I feel in the

love of all the world. Good. Yeah, you know, I put that word out that I was quitting the lawyer gig

and so many people wrote me to say very nice things and I was thinking about this. Talk to my

wife about this. I mean, there's a lot of people who make career changes but they're very few people

who have career changes and get the immediate rush of support of people all over the globe

writing them saying you got this. I mean, how lucky am I, man? I just thanks everybody for writing,

for joining the labs, all that stuff. I am still, you know, we record a little before these shows

go out so I'm still early in this transition but I just can't get over how much easier life is

when I'm not doing two big things at once. I mean, is that it's obvious but it's still shocking to

me. Is that makes sense? It totally makes sense. It totally does. It's a big change and I think

it'll take some some getting used to but I'm excited. You've already put out a bunch of lab stuff

so that's fun to see and yeah, I'm glad it's going well. Yeah, well, it's like, you know, I was always

pulled, you know, because you've got client commitments, you've got to make sure you take care of

them but they've got the stuff you want to do on the other side and like just in the, you know,

week and a half, I've been doing this. It is so refreshing just to be able to say, oh, I can just

focus on the thing, the Smart Sparky thing now and I can fix problems that have been lingering for

years and like there's all this cool content ideas. I mean, there's like no lack of ideas at this

point. One of the tricks for me, I think right now, I talked about this on focused is I'm in a

period of transition right now and I think it's very easy when you're in a period of transition

to just immediately go into maker mode and lock down and what I really want to do is really

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