Disclaimer: I’m writing this as a note to self, and for anyone interested in the process. If that’s not you – then it’s not for you.
Lots happened in January and I didn’t manage to get down to specifics with my new year’s resolutions for DriverlessCroc.
For those who came in late… here’s an out-of-order review of my DC-related goals:
Resolution 7: Work on these goals in 12 week chunks
Achievable right now – by chunking the other goals, then executing on the plan. Using the ‘12 Week Year‘ approach, my twelve week years will run:
1: Tuesday 1st January – Monday 25th March
2: Tuesday 26th March – Monday 17th June
Two grace weeks Tuesday 18th June – Monday 1st July
3: Tuesday 2nd July – Monday 23rd September
4: Tuesday 17th September – Monday 16th December
Two grace weeks Tues 18th December – Tues December 31st
Resolution 1: Keep it up. 600 posts on DC by the end of 2019**, with enough of a frontlog to set it and forget it for a couple of holidays.
12 weeks is 84 days. DC has 220 posts live, with 330 days left until the end of the year. A post a day will leave me 50 posts short of 600… That’s about 15 extra posts per 12 weeks… so I’ll need to average eight and a bit posts a week.
Milestones:
- March 25th: 284 posts
- June 17th: 380
- September 23rd: 490
- December 16th: 586
Resolution 2. Hit the reading list.
No worries here. I’m about two-and-a-half books in out of nine (The Inevitable, This is Marketing, half of Leveraged Learning and some of 4 Disciplines of Execution). This doesn’t need targets, just periodic checkups.
3. Podcast: an initial series of five episodes – starting with with a decent spec***.
Spec – check.
Other targets:
By March 25th: 1 episode – hitting this will need a big push in the first 12 weeks
By June 17th: 2 more episodes
By September 23rd: 2 more Episodes
Final Furlong: Review / rest on laurels.
Goal 4. A DC redesign.
This can wait until ‘Year’ 2 – 26th March onwards.
5. Pull key threads from posts into a more structured set of how-to articles.
By March 25th: Write an overview post
By June 17th: Write individual posts as part of the redesign.
6. Make connections with people who do similar work to me and/or find some of the ideas here helpful.
By March 25th: Decide about running a workshop in the summer.
Summary: to do before 25th March:
- Hit 284 posts
- Have one full episode of the podcast up
- Write an overview post drawing together key threads from DC
- Decide about that workshop