Frictionless Global Talent

Once upon a time in a land of endless SaaS products with rarely used features, there lived a busy businessman named Jon.

Jon ran a group of thriving companies, but he had a big problem - managing his overseas assistant Germaine was chaotic.

Every day, Jon would bombard Germaine with a relentless flurry of disjointed messages across multiple platforms - Slack, WhatsApp, text, email, carrier pigeon.

Important tasks and vital information were falling through the cracks in their frenetic conversations.

Poor Germaine struggled fiercely to keep track of everything being thrown her way.

Chaos.

There had to be a better way to get things done.

One weekend, after yet another barrage of distracted messages from Jon, Germaine reached her breaking point.

Tasks were being lost, updates were sporadic, and things were broken.

This chaos sparked an epiphany in Jon.

He realized he didn't need fancy project management software with millions of configurable options and workflows.

What he needed was simplicity.

Jon remembered one of his favorite products ever the flip camera.

Built in USB for charging.

LCD screen.

Big red button to record.

It was INTENTIONALLY minimal.

So Jon embarked on a quest to build the perfect SIMPLE & FRICTIONLESS task & project management system for him and Germaine.

After days of intense work, he emerged victorious - a dead stupid simple online ticketing system built on JotForm.

With just a few taps, Jon could now easily create task tickets that flowed neatly into Germaine’s project management board - organized, prioritized, and impossible to miss.

This form also lives in his browser bar, for lighting quick delegation.

When each task is opened, it has all details, and threaded conversations can happen inside the “ticket”.

No more cluttered, scattered conversations.

No more lost tasks or missed objectives.

Just clean, frictionless delegation and task management.

The results were transformational.

Jon could now smoothly hand off 3x more tasks per day, enabling him to scale his businesses faster than ever before.

Germaine loved the streamlined, orderly workflow and vastly improved oversight.

For the first time, they felt truly in sync as a team.

Jon and Germaine reveled in this new world of simplicity and delegation.

They realized that reducing friction and clutter were the keys to unleashing productivity.

Their success story spread far and wide, inspiring businesses and teams everywhere to stop overcomplicating things.

The moral was clear - cut the crap, ditch the feature bloat, and focus on elegantly simple solutions.

And they all lived happily (and productively) ever after.

The end.

This is a semi-autobiographical tale - but you get the idea!

I’ve been obsesses with building products & services that intentionally do less lately, and this system is a product of that thinking.

If you dig this kind of thing, you can easily set it up on your own.

Here’s a free link to the Zap to set it up. I ran it through ChatGPT as well, to give it a descriptive title.

Yallah Habibi,

Jon

P.S. - If you want to supercharge your global assistant game, checkout One Click Assistant - it can save you like 20 hours, and loads of brain damage.

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