June 2/Plumber. Stack. Bridge.
I fixed the printer. I told myself it was goodwill. Anja said: 'You fixed the printer, didn't you.' Not a question.
— from the desk, with coffee ☕Felix keeps calling me the tech guy. Four corrections. On the fifth I explained that I work on logic and systems, not hardware. He looked at his broken printer. He looked at me. He looked at the printer again.
I fixed the printer. I told myself it was goodwill. Anja, when I told her, said: 'You fixed the printer, didn't you.' Not a question.
For €50 an hour I will be a tech guy, a process consultant, a Digital Architect, or, if necessary, a plumber. I have limits. The printer was the limit, and I have now communicated this clearly. Felix will certainly ask me to fix something else next week.
Klaus thinks I should raise my rate. 'You're undercharging for the quality,' he said, with the easy confidence of someone who has never had trouble asking for money. I said I'd think about it. He said: 'You've been thinking about it since May.' He's not wrong. I wrote RAISE RATE? in the Founder's Notebook. The question mark is load-bearing.
The notebook
The thing I've been thinking about doing since May is The question mark is load-bearing.
Opening the notebook…