Considering an open projects list

Maybe this week I’ll get back in the groove of daily writing at the start of each day this week. That is a key element of process. Another element that may need a bit of work this week is to assemble a true open projects list. That list needs to be rationalized and organized into a clear set of priorities to either complete or stop doing. Maybe the worst section of that list will be the things that were forgotten then dug up to make the list only to be kicked off the roadmap by relegation to the stop doing list. Nothing really is more powerful than the stop doing list. You must respect it and understand the power that it ultimately commands in practice as a source of truth.

A focus on research notes

Right now I have a rubric of all the content that is scheduled for creation each week. My commitment to produce things has grown to 15 blocks a week. Gearing up to creating that stream of content was not really that interesting of a process. Things just started to get added a little bit at a time. Now that the framework exists the content writing part is really just about persistence. That is a far cry from the activities of all those content farmers right now that are flooding the world with content. My content is really very targeted to the things that I personally tend to enjoy. Maybe that creates a natural limit on what will get created. A lot of that content creation is based on maintaining two different backlogs of content that I’m going to build block by block. 

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