Steve, Dustin, Wayne, Eric, and I were on the morning meeting. I gave a small update on my "on site visit" yesterday with the tool company. Tons of new notes and pages of ideas and requests. Wayne wanted to talk about ways of standardizing code, and how things get implemented. He pitched a couple of fun and good ideas. He had us look at an article about ways to use Git (version control software) and have a number of different stages and/or branches. He was also explaining about how he could implement things like this inside of adilas. Super talented and we've never even been able to consider some of these concepts. Very interesting. Here is a link to the article... not exactly this process but some similarities.

https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ 

After Wayne was finished, Eric and I chatted about the sub special accounts homepage and what that would be and/or look like. We made a small plan and then Eric jumped off. Steve and I then started talking about how some of the developers are really wanting to jump in and play the game. We talked about Russell and what he wants to do, Wayne and what he wants to do, Alan and his goals, where Calvin is at, Dustin, Spencer, etc.

Right about that time, Eric popped back on the meeting and was asking Steve about some ideas and concepts of revenue sharing and how we could build things out to a more and more stable working and development environment. Eric was talking about how much better adilas as a whole would be if he was able to build out core features and projects vs doing the custom one-off implementations all the time. Some of these developers work and work and work and then their projects are done. Most of them want something that is reoccurring and/or can be reused over and over again. That seems to be a trend. Very interesting, almost the exact or similar topic that we were on. While Eric and Steve were talking, I was listening and making some mental notes. We don't know which way to jump yet, and we don't want to overload the boat so that it tips (get too far extended by debt and/or payables), but there are some awesome opportunities right in front of us. We have a great talent pool that we know, like, and have the skills to do what is needed. We just need to figure out how to keep funding the journey. That is awesome.

From Steve - he thinks that we have crossed a new checkpoint. We are having guys with talent that are virtually knocking on our door saying - I want in.

Russell's word - "Dependable" on what we called the people on our team.

Steve was also talking about some supplemental experiments with salespersons and people helping to push our product out there. We are going to start funding some small sales missions and covering certain individuals for 10-20 hours a month doing sales. If they get a sale, they are able to charge their normal setup and/or consultant rates. If they are prospecting, they will be on a small adilas budget to help them cover prospecting time and maybe some gas money. Basically, a small "low to no" budget sales force, but helping to augment and/or supplement the sales efforts. Fun stuff.

Towards the end of the session, I took some time and recorded some notes. To some, it may seem like a waste of time. To me, it is what I do and that's part of the job and/or what I like to do. I gain from it in big ways. Whatever I write, I have to think about it, record it, re-read it, and it improves my memory going through that exercise. Anyways, that's why I write so much. Once it is down on paper (virtual and/or physical) I can refer back to it and it lessens the stress load. There is an old saying, the faintest scratch on paper is better than the sharpest mind.