How makers stay productive

My life is remarkably unchanged. The biggest change is that I've been avoiding going to the gym, which has worked out fine now that the weather is getting nice out. I like taking walks more than being on a treadmill anyway.

Introducing… The Pandemic Prevention Utility Belt™ Built according to CDC guidelines.

for me personally this doesn't affect me that much. since I live in a big city, I basically pay attention when there is a wave of illness anyway.

at the moment it's no different for me than during a normal wave of illness. so, after the bus ride, disinfect hands, keep your distance from others, if someone sneezes or coughs discreetly move away a little. I always have food and drink in the house anyway. even for several weeks.

the thing that shakes me up is that we're starting to get stuff stolen from hospitals. what's wrong with these people?

More or less staying in, but I'm still unsure of what to do when it comes to the gym. Ideally? Yeah, don't go. But I've been trying to start getting back in shape, and 75-80% of my workouts are with barbells/plates. I did order a couple of dumbbells on Amazon today…figure I can do lying presses, shoulder presses, dumbbell weighted split squats/lunges etc. But it really doesn't come close to the weight I need to be moving. Staying put right now in the name of helping to "flatten the curve" as it were, but I'm antsy. On a related note, fitness/weightlifting/bodybuilding influencers I follow on social media are strangely mum on this subject…

…this has been a vent 😂

Otherwise, stocked up on frozen/non-perishable food, washing my hands like a surgeon, so on and so forth.

I have 2 businesses. One is benefiting from it, the other is suffering.

The one that is benefiting is my SaaS called Upvoty, a user feedback tool. More and more people are working with tools nowadays, so they're investing in these kinds of tools. Also to vote on what to do next internally.

The one that's suffering is Vindy, a home-improvement platform in The Netherlands and Belgium. We depend on people's home improvement jobs, which they, understandably, postponed at the moment. Fall back from $50k MRR to $39. Luckily we don't have a big team and we can handle these kinds of fallbacks.

Times like this are perfect to take a good look at your business model: is it future-proof?

I quit my job by the end of February so luckily for me I don't have to commute anymore. I stopped going to the gym but I keep doing my morning runs. Apart from that, I'm avoiding traveling and going to social events with lots of people, keep some distance in the street and I wash my hands every time I can.

If things get really bad I'd consider moving to my hometown as it's a small city an there are very low number of cases 🤞

Stay safe people!

I'm working remotely today as I need to take transportation. We are a SaaS so I'm able to do this without any problems.

There is some work that needs to be in sync that we need to improve in terms of communication. But it was also the case before the coronavirus.

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Just got 5 weeks holidays because of Corona.

Not many things are changed. It's more/less calm here in Bali, although we already got first cases so I'm planning to go to the store and stock some food. All the work is done online as usual.

I am monitoring every day what's with flight situations, I got tickets to Georgia in two weeks, I hope I'm gonna make it, don't really want to stuck in Bali in the moment of crisis.

February was unusually quiet for coaching clients and that's not getting better at the moment. The clients that I do have are, understandably, finding it hard to focus.

I'm hoping that people who are stuck at home will eventually emerge from their mental funk and think about getting coached for a creative habit they've always wanted to establish but haven't managed on their own.

I'm currently in Spain and we're just going into lock-down. I'm used to working from home but I'm going to miss going out and socialising as we're only here in Spain for a few months and part of the fun is catching up with old friends.

But I've always got plenty to get on with - working on my own art and preparing marketing materials, so I'll cope!