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: 44
• Total book digests created: 15
• Total blog posts published: 273
• 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 reading John Train’s The Money Masters: Nine Great Investors: Their Winning Strategies and How You Can Apply Them, a biographical anthology about nine public market investors
• Updated draft of taxonomy using learnings from the exercise of creating four hypothetical outputs for users (see here)
• Created a concise mission statement
• Create a concise vision statement
• Created a list of potential new metrics for this weekly email update
• Created a clear problem statement
• Analyzed Google data and generated more title ideas for blog posts and other content types
• 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
• Pick two types of output and associated user problems and create an approach and workflow to solve each problem
• Get feedback on the problem, vision, and mission statements from two seasoned entrepreneurs
• Share the draft taxonomy with two people
• Continue linking blog posts about the same book
• Continue updating descriptions for blog posts about the same book

Asks:

• None

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