Weeknotes vol. 16: Where have all the weeknotes gone?
By Garrett,
I’ve been called out more times than not over the last few months about breaking my weeknotes streak.
After selling Good Work my master plan has always been to turn work into a mix of: create interesting things, consulting for others doing interesting things, and acquire pre-existing interesting things. The insights and findings and experiences of each of these buckets creates a reinforcing cycle between all three.
I spent roughly four months kickstarting the first, but in order to get all of the plates spinning I need progress on the others, too. This has taken me out of my office and into the real world, hence less writing.
Braindrop is basically done, the MVP will launch this year (I’m committing) and I have some other ideas that are a few notches past the napkin phase, but I’m currently spending more time kickstarting consulting.
The original plan was for Better Than Good to be the home of my creating bucket, and have other homes for the other stuff. It makes more sense for this to be the home of everything, so the challenge is to position Better Than Good to be the home of all three. I’m currently working on that.
So, quite a few changes around here, but now that this is officially the home of everything, the writing will pick up again.
Welcome to my digital playground.
This is what the inside of my brain looks like.
If you came to hear about software updates, well, hopefully you’ll learn something from the other stuff, too. There will also be a slight homepage update soon that will pull everything together.
Until next time.
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