Driving lessons IV - Blindspots

New writing theme: Writing life lessons from my driving lessons.

This time, it’s about blindspots.

Blindspots are my Achilles heel, my instructors tell me. I’m so focused on executing the maneuverers properly, I often forget to check my blindspots before moving off, turning, switching lanes. Safety is actually more important than doing whatever technique I’m doing.

One is better off a bad driver than a unsafe driver (though often they go together!).

So yeah, that about sums up my approach at indie hacking I feel.

I’m often so focused on the building, the product, the customers, or whatever I’m tunnel visioned on for the day, that I start to develop blindspots.

Missed opportunities.
Not catching the viral wave.
A conversation I should have.
A SEO article I should have wrote.
A piece of feedback ignored.

Sometimes the product is not the real opportunity, but what other tangential opportunities the product opens up from the attention it gets.

If we can see it, catch it in time.

Too much the technician, too little the entrepreneur.

Blindspots.