Weekly Update: Week Two Hundred Forty-Eight

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: 43
  • Total book digests created: 15
  • Total blog posts published: 266
  • 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):

  • Finished rereading Howard Marks’s Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side, a framework for navigating cycles in various asset classes (real estate, public debt, stock market, etc.)
  • Created four hypothetical outputs for users of the “book library” and reviewed them with my developer friend; see more here.
  • Refreshed my blog—posts about the same book can now be connected; see the other changes here
  • Created a clear problem statement
  • Identified likely root causes of data quality issues; pinpointing the fixes will require some trial and error
  • Continued linking blog posts about the same book
  • Continued updating descriptions for blog posts about the same book

What I’ll do next week:

  • Read a biography, autobiography, or framework book
  • Create concise vision and mission statements
  • Create a list of potential metrics for my weekly updates that better reflect the updated direction of this project
  • Share taxonomy draft with one person
  • Continue linking blog posts about the same book
  • Continue updating descriptions for blog posts about the same book
  • Analyze Google data to generate more ideas for creating blog post titles

Asks:

  • None

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