# 2023 W02 Weekly Review

> Updates on my newsletter, my personal experiences and my contribution to my work.

Source: https://curiouslychase.com/posts/2023-w02-weekly-review/

The biggest update this week: **This weekly review!**

I decided I'm going to try out doing a weekly review...and doing it in public!

# Personal
- **Enchanted Princess Ball.** Friday night of last week (2023 W01) I took Elizabeth to an ["Enchanted Princess Ball"](https://gleneyrie.org/enchanged-princess-ball-header_website/) at the [Glen Eyrie](https://gleneyrie.org/) castle in Colorado Springs, CO. It was a magical time. 
- **Climbed 2 days, 20+ routes.** It was a good week for climbing. I onsited (first climb, no tips) my first 5.10b that's _all slopers_ which was exciting. 
- **Completed 100% of my [Calisthentics](https://curiouslychase.com/posts/exercise-plan/)** exercises for the week. I'm leveling up all of my exercises next week. 
- **Lego Treehouse**. I finished my [LEGO Treehouse](https://curiouslychase.com/posts/lego-treehouse/) build. It's a very cool build!

# Murmur
- **Interviewed design candidates.**
- **Refined Decisionbot in private channels and group DMs.** I've been working on a [Slack](https://curiouslychase.com/tools/slack/) integration called Decisionbot at[Murmur Labs](https://curiouslychase.com/posts/murmur-labs/) but we've mostly been handling public channels. Now it handles private channels
- **Implemented PostHog in all of our digital products.** We're using [PostHog](https://curiouslychase.com/tools/posthog/) at[Murmur Labs](https://curiouslychase.com/posts/murmur-labs/) to get better insights into our Marketing site visitors (hosted with Webflow), the [Murmur app](https://app.murmur.com) and Decisionbot.

# Writing
- [Maybe Don't Just Cancel 75,000 Hours of Meetings](https://curiouslychase.com/posts/maybe-dont-just-cancel-75000-hours-of-meetings/). I think snapping all meetings out of existence is an approach that leads to worse problems. In this article, I explain why and propose an alternative approach.
- Published [Startup Learnings](https://curiouslychase.com/posts/startup-learnings/), a collection I started and want to pick back up.
- Published [Start with user accounts, workspaces and teams](https://curiouslychase.com/posts/start-with-user-accounts-workspaces-and-teams/), a [Startup Learnings](https://curiouslychase.com/posts/startup-learnings/) for how to think about entities when building a digital product.
- Published Outsource What's Not Core To Your Product's Value Offering, a [Startup Learnings](https://curiouslychase.com/posts/startup-learnings/) about the importance of focusing on the _value proposition_ of your digital product.
- [List of Destructive and Non-Destructive JavaScript Array Methods](https://curiouslychase.com/engineering/list-of-destructive-and-non-destructive-javascript-array-methods/). This is a very specific technical note about [JavaScript](https://curiouslychase.com/posts/javascript/).

# Newsletter Update
I struggled to put hands to keyboards on the newsletter I wanted to start writing.

This public weekly review is a less scary, more gentle way for me to ease into thinking about a newsletter.

There were a few things I noticed at play:
- I was afraid of what people would think if my first issue wasn't "perfect".
- I was not _excited_ about the idea (the craft behind how people make things).

I'm going to explore a different topic in the meantime.

### New and Updated Topic Notes
- 🆕 [PostHog](https://curiouslychase.com/tools/posthog/) 
- 🆕 [Slack API](https://curiouslychase.com/posts/slack-api/)
- [My Digital Tool Stack](https://curiouslychase.com/posts/my-digital-tool-stack/)

# Other Interesting Reading
## [Why aligned autonomy is an ongoing struggle](https://jchyip.medium.com/why-aligned-autonomy-is-an-ongoing-struggle-efa62e272d5d) 
Aaron Dignan shared this with the[Murmur Labs](https://curiouslychase.com/posts/murmur-labs/) team. This problem of aligned autonomy is at the root of trying to get a Startup off the ground. 

> Autonomy, in a workplace context, is not about “I can do whatever I feel like” but rather “I feel free to act and fully engage to achieve a greater purpose.”

I think the critical misunderstanding of autonomy isn't just "free to act and fully engage to achieve a greater purpose", it's also that I have to do it within my abilities, skills and decision rights. 

I hold roles within the organization and those roles inform the way I contribute in my "freedom to act". 

When I learned to focus on my role to serve the purpose, it enabled me to move the needle.

# Music Highlights
- Electronic: [Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode cover)](https://open.spotify.com/track/4tz6qu4C4uqMksUb3CyNac?si=50a67457bc424d31) by DCCM
- Prog Rock: [Ego Death](https://open.spotify.com/track/0Qj7PB41b6XgkApKPwDy1r?si=6cf83529f4e547c9) by Polyphia (I can't stop listening!)
- Hip Hop: [Shine On](https://open.spotify.com/track/5X6xaHU3SnJgT6nlNGNWhR?si=9e3d0e01ece94a05) by Kristoff Krane (This song makes me want to bop my head)
- Metal/Djent: [Pure Imagination](https://open.spotify.com/track/63v6NOvLxA2VfuysgJnVs2?si=65e421de27574346) by Hearing Shapes (thanks to my friend Andrew Del Prete for sharing it!)