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February 2023 Monthly Review
Compared to the excitement of the NEW YEAR in January, February felt a bit, well, wintery. Winter vibes are ok though, because this year is the year of reading. I finished reading Norwegian Wood, Creativity by John Cleese, Sweat the Technique, and Building a Second Brain. I started a bunch more books as well. The…
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January 2023 Monthly Review
As part of my regular routine, I try to do a weekly review similar to what I outlined in How I organize using Notion and a notebook. This year, since I’m not sharing my What I learned last week posts or setting amplify and reduce goals, I thought I’d try collecting all these weekly recaps…
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What I learned last week (#193): skipping stones
It’s been two weeks since I posted a WILLW update, which means I missed a week. I had COVID (again). And shingles (?!). Both were boring and sucked and there isn’t much else to say about it except that we’re all on the mend and it’s good to get my annual fall illness behind me.…
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What I learned last week (#192): introspections
Some call it fall and others autumn, but whatever, it’s my favorite time of year and last week was just the start. Blustery storms, the sun getting lower on the horizon, some cool in the air, colorful leaves. I was enjoying it all last week as we’ve been having our first fires of the season.…
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Build an intro and outro into your day, week, or month routine
One of my colleagues recently raised the idea that often we’ll do retrospectives and futurespectives (i.e. roadmapping, visiontyping) but that many or most of us don’t do introspectives. While I’m not great at these kinds of things, I can say with certainty that writing out what I want to do and then what I did…
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What I learned last week (#191): open a door and beckon
Last week was kind of half-and-half. Half was really good. I was riding the energy. The other half I wished I made some different decisions. The energy was riding me. Still having a hard time adjusting to the different schedule and demands of running the house half the time and running work half the time.…
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What I learned last week (#190): breakfast for dinner
Last week was mostly about being a Dad (my wife was traveling so I was solo for a bit) and working slowly on the million house projects we have going. It’s easy to get frustrated by how much there is to do. The thing that’s hard about making progress on new home improvements is that…
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What I learned last week (#189): get back
Last week was a “get back” week. Get back to work (after a week away), get back to routine (after letting things slide in August), and get back to life at home. Now that I’m back, I’m starting to read and draw and game more, so more writing here is on the way. Here is…
Writing and drawings by Nick.
