Thursday, October 11, 2007

buy-sell-swap

I ran into town today to do some grocery shopping and pick up Buy Sell Swap, the local weekly trade paper, but when I got home the fasting guest had already bought it for me, and circled the cars he thought would be good. This place attracts the nicest people – I’ve already had a ton of offers of places to stay all around both islands.

A couple of weeks ago, a return guest who’d recently started a business systems consulting company came to stay. The Pujjis are in the middle of expanding their businesses, and Jane worked out a swap with the guest – a weekend stay in exchange for help setting up improved business systems.

After lunch, I helped Jane document her business processes and draw up the business requirements for custom business software that they’ll have built through Rent-A-Coder after the guest comes. I thought this was the kind of stuff I’d want to avoid on my ‘year off,’ but it’s totally different when it’s for a small business and you feel like you are really making an impact.

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