Whilst we adapted to our new reality with zoom birthdays and lockdown walks, businesses struggled to connect with customers with completely different wants and needs than pre-covid. Some brands thrived in the face of adversity (Gymshark s monumental achievement of hitting $1.3 billion valuation despite unearthing a worrying insight), but a lot more did not. If your brand managed to survive 2020: What did you learn (personally and professionally)?

I've always gotten a mixed review around working on weekends. Some prefer it to be a no work zone so they can start the work day week fresh but others like to mix it up. What do you do?

We tend to complicate everything so much - how about we simplify things and try to explain our work as we would explain it to a 5-year-old?

From the past few months, I have been actively working on improving my writing skills. From your personal learnings, what are the best ideas, practices and tips for improving writing?

Does your metal health affect your work adversely, does it make you more high functioning, and how do you cope with it?

Would love to see what people listen to (or don't). I've always listened to lo-fi music when working and it actually makes me somewhat productive but I'm curious to see what others do

I find that time blocking has helped me a lot. How about yours?

For me it was Forty Rules of Love, by Elif Shafak, and it greatly changed my understanding of my faith.

Well hello there! I'm Arvid Kahl, I'm a coder, an entrepreneur, and a writer. Over the last few years, I've been sharing my entrepreneurial journey through building in public and writing. I co-founded a SaaS business with my life partner Danielle Simpson back in 2017. We sold it for a life-changing amount of money just two years later as it had reached $55k MRR. Ever since then, I have been spending my days empowering other founders to find their own way to financial independence. My latest book The Embedded Entrepreneur is a guide to building a business the right way around: by focusing on your future audience from day one. I've been mentoring and teaching founders the audience-centric way to great success. I write, I read, I speak, I nap a lot, and I love engaging with founders. And now I'd like to talk to you! AMA

Hi! Around 6 months ago we started a blog that aims to help professionals across various teams and roles communicate better at work. The focus has been on email (both external and internal) but we cover also messaging think Slack and LinkedIn dms. For example, we've already covered many topics highly-relevant to founders. Communications (especially through our keyboards) is increasingly important part of our work no matter we like it or not, so I'd like to think that there's lot's of ground to cover here. Any ideas on topics to cover or specific blog post you'd like to read? Any input is greatly appreciated!

Reply with: 1) Name 2) What you do 3) Help you can offer And let others discover you.

We use Slack + huddle for almost all communication, Zoom and Thursday to hang out.

I have been thinking about this for a while. Pandemic, remote working, deadlines, with so much going on, do you find it challenging to cope with the mental stress? How do you manage it? Are there some ideas that are effective for maintaining mental health? If you're someone battling with mental health, feel free to share your experience in the comments section.

I know certain tools help you with your spelling or rephrase your sentences in a clearer format. My question here is: can they also boost idea generation and reliably give you ready-to-use copy?

I have been trying to grow my Twitter account for months now. I have been successful to some extent, but I'm looking for more ideas. My inspiration is drying up. So, if you're active on Twitter & have successfully grown your brand, please help me(and several others who will read this thread) to grow their presence too. P.S - Share your Twitter profile when you comment. I want to follow you.