Weekly Update: Week Two Hundred Forty-Six

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: 41
  • Total book digests created: 15
  • Total blog posts published: 252
  • 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 Robert Hagstrom’s The Warren Buffett Way, a biography about Warren Buffett’s investing framework and psychology  
  • Linked popular blog posts written about the same book using related lists
  • Updated descriptions of popular blog posts
  • Identified a method to compile a founder’s journey from multiple sources and communicate it digestibly
  • Received feedback on my draft taxonomy
  • Received input and ideas from a developer who built a project like the “book library” MVP
  • Identified technologies that can help with building challenging features
  • Completed code to parse data according to a schema and populate database fields (my developer friend led this effort)

What I’ll do next week:

  • Read a biography, autobiography, or framework book
  • Create a list of potential metrics for weekly updates that better reflect this project
  • Review data set in Looker Studio
  • Experiment with ways to visualize data in Looker Studio
  • Identify root cause and fixes for data set quality issues
  • Evaluate NoteBookLM Plus
  • Update UI sketches based on learnings
  • Share taxonomy draft with one person
  • Continue linking blog posts about the same book
  • Continue updating descriptions for blog posts about the same book
  • Generate ideas for a methodology for creating blog post titles using data from Google on top-performing posts

Asks:

  • None

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