Recently, I’ve been facing what I thought to be a big problem. I wasn’t getting as much out of my job as I could be… and it was really bumming me out.

I wrote the problem off as something I had to deal with. It wasn’t until I went on a long bike ride to Seward Park and back that I figured it out. I remembered a Stanford Entrepreneurial Podcast from a professor who taught entrepreneurial classes there.

So I’ve turned my problem into a learning opportunity. Here is my execution plan:

• Pick key components of the software business that I want to learn about
• Prioritize these areas
• Spend one month on each of these areas (priority order)
• During the month, learn everything I can. Seek out, meet, and learn from gurus in the area. Read articles and books if needed (do I even have time? :p).
• Make the most of this problem… I mean opportunity