Weekly Update: Week Two Hundred Forty-Two

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: 37
  • Total book digests created: 15
  • Total blog posts published: 224
  • Total audio recordings published: 103

This week’s metrics:

  • Books read: 1
  • Book digests created: 1 (using technology)
  • Blog posts published: 7
  • Audio recordings published: 0

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

  • Read a second book on David Ogilvy—a collection of memos, letters, speeches, and interviews
  • Created a book digest for David Allen’s Getting Things Done using the “book digest” MVP
  • Tested prompts to improve the quality of digests created using the “book digest” MVP
  • Tested different parsing methods as alternatives to retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for my “book library” MVP
  • Tested prompts to improve the quality of responses from the “book library” MVP

What I’ll do next week:

  • Read a biography or autobiography
  • Test alternative setups for the “book library” MVP

Asks:

  • None

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