Current Project: Reading books about entrepreneurs and sharing what I learned from them

Mission: Create a library of wisdom from notable entrepreneurs that current entrepreneurs can leverage to increase their chances of success

Cumulative metrics (since 4/1/24):

• Total books read: 39
• Total book digests created: 15
• Total blog posts published: 238
• Total audio recordings published: 103

This week’s metrics:

• Books read: 1
• Book digests created: 0
• Blog posts published: 7
• Audio recordings published: 0

What I completed this week (link to last week’s commitments):

• Read a third book on David Ogilvy - a collection of his learnings about advertising
• Demoed first major feature for “book library” MVP
• Refined and ranked sub-feature list for “book library” MVP
• Defined data views for “book library” MVP
• Updated list of competitors for “book library” MVP
• Analyzed database sources for book data

What I’ll do next week:

• Read a framework book, biography, or autobiography
• Share taxonomy drafts with one person
• Refine list of fields for database tables
• Create idea bank for growth strategies

Asks:

• None

Week two hundred forty-four was another week of learning. Looking forward to next week!

Current Project: Reading books about entrepreneurs and sharing what I learned from them

Mission: Create a library of wisdom from notable entrepreneurs that current entrepreneurs can leverage to increase their chances of success

What I struggled with:

• No material struggles this week  

What I learned:

• I overestimated what I could get done during this holiday week. I need to get more realistic about where my time goes during holidays. I always think I’ll have lots of free time, but I never do.
• There’s no easy way for people to share what books they’ve read on their personal websites or blogs. You can share on platforms like Goodreads, but not your own.
• Entrepreneurs (anyone, really) can obtain books for free from many websites, but entrepreneurs don’t use them.
• Sharing what you’ve learned from books is a manual, inefficient process. If it were easier, I wonder if more people would share what they’ve learned from books they’ve read.
• Creating a tool to annotate a book isn’t as technically difficult as I’d thought.

Those are my struggles and learnings from the week!