Chicago, Get Your Pots and Pans Ready!

Hey Chicago, we're almost ready to start eating and hosting some home cooked meals!  We want to make sure enough people know about GrubWithUs before we start our beta launch, go to http://grubwith.us and petition to open up the Chicago area for service.  The quicker we get to our target number, the quicker everyone gets to eat.  We definitely need people that want to cook and want to make some money off their cooking too!  If you're still unsure about the site, you should look at this post now.

We're going to be cooking it up at the GrubWithUs apartment in Lincoln Park near DePaul, so definitely come eat and give us some feedback on the site.  We want to make sure this service is super fun and safe, so that everyone can eat, meet new people and have a great time.  For those of you interested in hosting meals but are worried about random people coming over, check out a previous post about consumer psychology and the peer review.  As a host, you choose to accept or reject any person wanting to come eat.  And remember, your address is never given out until your accept a person to your meal! 

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Productivity Porn

I'm an efficiency freak and love it when things get done quickly and my time isn't wasted.  I honestly think one of the main reasons why I hated working in corporate jobs was because things weren't efficient.  I'd get my job done, but would still have to sit around for 'face time' and be bored out of my mind.  Now that we've broken away from the corporate lifestyle, I'm constantly finding ways to be even more productive.  Reading Hacker News a few times a day definitely doesn't help my productivity, but I always find great articles like "The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity".

I won't recite it here, but if you want to become more productive, definitely read his blog post.  The one tip I like the best is how to use your procrastination to become more productive.  Procrastination usually happens when you don't really like doing a certain task (for me, it's writing test scripts).  Instead of putting off the task and searching online for some sort of distraction, keep a list of other tasks that need to be done that day as well.  When you feel like procrastinating, do those other tasks instead.  You'll end up feeling very productive, even though you procrastinated!

There's also another tip on the guide that I really should be doing.  It's eating breakfast.  Daishin and I try to usually meet up between 7-8, and we usually starve ourselves until lunchtime.  Like, literally starve.  We must complain that we're hungry about 10 times each in the morning.  Putting fuel in our bodies in the morning might actually make us more productive as well! 

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GrubWithUs...Chicago!

We've had a great time grubbing with everyone in Los Angeles and we really appreciate all the feedback!  We've learned so much about what our users want and a lot about our capabilities as well.  LA is our home, and it's been awesome, but one of the co-founders has to move to Chicago for half a year.  It's a long story that you'll definitely hear about one of these days, but this is a location dependent website and we don't want to half-ass anything.  This means, we've decided to move our operations to Chicago and expand there first!

Don't worry, we're not abandoning you, LA.  We'll be back here real soon and will be growing the Los Angeles region in a few months, but we just felt that we have to be all together in the initial growing stages.  We're really excited about GrubWithUs, so we're willing to take off the shorts and put on the parkas for the site!  Chicago is an awesome city and we also think the people living there are very open minded and would embrace the idea.  We'll keep you guys posted and Los Angeles will be definitely be our next stop!

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