I have to remember that this is a thinking job.
What I'm Up To (Full-time Work), What I Reflected On (Thinking Job), and What's Occupying My Mind (Crypto Accounting)- all part of Allen's Friday Flights
Hello Professionally Curious One!
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why is the sky raining Lacroix?
Cheers,
Allen
Past Publications
What I’m Up To
TL;DR: Back to the grind.
The Things:
Baekjeong is good. Mun Korean Steakhouse is better.
My new defacto Sushi spot: Gurume Sushi, holy shit.
The Surface Laptop 5 15” inch is the Windows Equivalent to that MacBook Pro 16”. Source: I haz both.
Oh Brother, where have you been my life?
AHEM. CONGRATS TO AIDEN.
It’s been raining so much that there was a flood warning and high wind warning, and I’m down one twig of a tree.
If anyone wants a multi-state tax client with an LLC in both Washington and Minnesota, with residency in California, I got a referral.
Because I’m a free craigslist ad, if anyone wants to buy a $1500 Macbook Pro 16inch 2021, or a scratched one with $1200, or a Lenovo Thinkpad PC for $600, I know a guy.
I think there needs to be a blockchain confirmation feature in the same manner as a cash confirmation or an AR confirmation. I should be allowed to ask the blockchain “what balance did this wallet hold on X date, and what does that entail?”. I shall call this…Blockfirmation! just kidding, Concrete is a better name since the blockchain is rather concrete about its data.
My god damn spotify now has shorts-like feature like Youtube/IG, and Im very annoyed.
Can anyone recommend a desktop microphone that is able to connect to two device via a KVM, but also makes me sound like a podcast host?
What I Reflected On
TL;DR: I have to remember that this is a thinking job.
Always Busy
I remember a time when I did 55+ billable working hours. I also remember doing for long stretches of time, spreading my focus thin across several, unrelated, competing priorities - with every stroke some measure of buying myself more time.
I remember when people boasted how busy they were, or are. How impossible it was to find time on their calendar because their calendar was jammed packed with anything, and everything.
I remember how utilized every hour was, and how busy schedules made people behave - and what they sacrificed to maintain it.
I remember nothing really getting done. I mean, there was output, but I couldn’t tell you if there was value or meaning. One can find a lot of busywork that optically looks contributory, but really, its a bust. And if you’re unfortunate, you’ll find that you work with a boss whose gut reaction is to create twelve tasks, when really all we needed was more consideration.
I’d say the times have changed, but it depends on who you talk to and how they perceive value.
Is value pegged to the hour worked, or the wealth of knowledge that allows work to be done in an hour? One is visible, the other is invisible.
On my way out of EY, I recall a hilariously contrarian gentlemen (if he, or his wife, read this - hi!) reminding all of us over dinner that this job is a thinking job, not a doing job. And oh, how I agree.
All of our jobs are thinking jobs. That’s not to say you sit for your work hours and think; it’s you have to build time into the day to think. And to think with clarity, succinctness, and remembrance. And then to do it again without knowledge loss.
Today I’m quite busy.
But I spend most of time writing, drawing, or being very considerate of what value I create, and when I want to surface that value. In many ways, my days are primarily built around thinking. And not just thinking, writing.
I’ll get requests here and there, and for those requests where it seems like I’m about to define a process, or it could back at me, or there are more things to consider than what that person knows - well, instead of instantly slacking back, I open a Notion, put the message, put what I know, add a screenshot, and then send a succint version of it back.
After all, it is a thinking job.
In many ways, the time I have spent thinking allow me to finally answer this question: Am I spending time in the business, or spending time on the business?
p.s. Imposter Syndrome can arise from having a value based on hours worked, as opposed to outcomes provided or any other metric. Think about that when you’re idle next time.
What’s On My Mind
TL;DR: Allen the Crypto Accounting Partner?
I can see myself being a Crypto Accounting Partner.
This week I spent some time on:
The treatment of employee token distributions
The treatment of auction-bots in market making
The treatment of genesis receipt tokens
The treatment of staking income on tokens considered manufactured in-house
The treatment of revenue if the payment is made in crypto that in itself has a lock-up mechanism
The treatment on intracompany billing when using crypto from one entity, to pay the crypto opex bill of another
The treatment of expense payment using tokens that we manufactured
I think I’m at the point where you really can’t hide from me.
p.s. just because I spent time on it, doesn’t mean I’m right. It just means I’ve seen it and can break down the damn mechanisms.