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" at the Glen Eyrie
• 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 exercises for the week. I'm leveling up all of my exercises next week.
• Lego Treehouse. I finished my LEGO Treehouse

Murmur

• Interviewed design candidates.
• Refined Decisionbot in private channels and group DMs. I've been working on a Slack integration called Decisionbot at30 - Collections/Organizations/Murmur 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 at30 - Collections/Organizations/Murmur to get better insights into our Marketing site visitors (hosted with Webflow), the Murmur app and Decisionbot.

Writing

• Maybe Don't Just Cancel 75,000 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, a collection I started and want to pick back up.
• Published Start with user accounts, workspaces and teams, a 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 about the importance of focusing on the value proposition of your digital product.
• List of Destructive and Non-Destructive JavaScript Array Methods. This is a very specific technical note about 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
• 🆕 Slack API
• My Digital Tool Stack

Other Interesting Reading

Why aligned autonomy is an ongoing struggle

Aaron Dignan shared this with the30 - Collections/Organizations/Murmur team. This problem of aligned autonomy is at the root of trying to get a Startup off the ground.

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) by DCCM
• Prog Rock: Ego Death by Polyphia (I can't stop listening!)
• Hip Hop: Shine On by Kristoff Krane (This song makes me want to bop my head)
• Metal/Djent: Pure Imagination by Hearing Shapes (thanks to my friend Andrew Del Prete for sharing it!)