Warm-up:
Ok, doing another warm-up. So I just spent some time re-organizing some of my writings from previous days. As I write more, I discover how things can be organized better. I've written out the outline in the Outline (v2) page. After I finished Day 2 - Here's what's inside yesterday, I realized that the whole structure for this book can actually be borrowed from the webinars we've put together for The Pack over the years! This is timed over 3 weeks (at one session per week), but the entire structure is there already. All I need to do is re-write it here, then expand on it in a much more detailed manner. This can then serve as a book that gets our philosophy and methodology out, while also still offering a way for people to join our quarterly pack rounds to get the live experience of it all. Win/win. Published link to this page on Twitter here. Although I'm writing about the history of the pack today, I'm thinking a section on the history of lone wolf entrepreneurs or leaders might be useful just prior.
The Pack was born out of loneliness, to put it bluntly.
In 2014, I found myself in-between jobs. I spent 3-4 months searching for my next gig after just coming out of a job as a Communit Manager for a local Australian coworking space.
At first, I tried applying the traditional way: searching for jobs online, sending in my resume/CV, etc. But then I figured there had to be a better way. After all, looking back, most of the jobs I got always seemed to come through a referral.
I was getting tired of the isolation at home and becoming increasingly de-motivated after not hearing back from employers or even receiving rejection letters.
As such, I decided to put my networks to use by devising a 40 day marketing campaign out of my job-hunting efforts. I documented all my learnings in the ebook below.
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I turned my hunting efforts into something public.
I committed to doing everything publicly so that I could get some sort of connection to the outside world. When you find yourself job-hunting from home, while most of your friends or peers are at work or running their own businesses, it can get incredibly lonely.
For some, the alone time or isolation works for them. For me, I learned, the opposite was true. I was in my 20's, so I was still buildling up my confidence and learning to be comfortable on my own.
As I continued writing, I found others who became particularly interested in how I was doing it. I was using agile-scrum methods (like use of the daily standup, but posting it publicly). I then started recording myself and publishing the videos to Youtube.
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As a result, I then found myself creating the early foundations of what would later be called the It Will Come Show (www.itwillcomeshow.com).