Day 391: Week 57 Plan

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Week 56

Goals

  • Foundation

    • ❌ Sleep before 12am at least 3 times this week

    • ❌ Swim 3+ times

      • Swam only once

    • ❌ Work out 3+ times

      • Worked out only twice

  • Road to Ramen

    • ❌ Write a 2020 Review

      • Wrote a review for one category (Well-being and Spirituality) but not any others

  • Intention

  • Browserflow

    • ❌ Cold email 5 customer support managers at startups

      • Nope

Ouch, 0 goals accomplished. So what happened this week?

I didn’t work at all on Monday and Friday due to going on an external hiking trip with friends (Monday) and going on an internal trip by myself (Friday). On Wednesday, I spent most of the work day talking with a friend that I might collaborate with in the future. On Thursday, I ran a bunch of errands.

Since I didn’t work this weekend, that leaves Tuesday, where I prioritized bug fixes / feature work for Browserflow rather than the goals I set out.

Here are the things I’d like to do differently:

  • Spend more time working

    • Socializing is great, but Browserflow is not going to develop itself

  • Create some kind of external pressure

    • I’ve been in a rut where I’m making small improvements to Browserflow but not focusing on the big things. Jeremy suggested setting a launch date for Browserflow. That might be what I need to get my butt into gear.

  • Be clear about my priorities

    • A significant portion of my time working on Browerflow is spent fixing bugs and developing features for friends / beta users who are not my target audience (operators at companies and small business owners). At this point, it might make sense to de-prioritize any request that doesn’t move me closer to getting paying customers.

Week 57

Still, there’s been some interesting developments with Browserflow:

  • I’m helping someone automate his company’s invoicing workflow and he was quite willing to pay the beta fee because that’s how much he’d save every time he’d run the flow (the manual workflow takes him ~30 minutes each time)
  • A friend is using Browserflow for lead generation on Instagram and it’s freeing up a bunch of their time

I’ve fallen into a pattern where I don’t actually work on the things that I think will make the most meaningful difference for Browserflow. Part of it is because I don’t feel a need to rush, but it might be worth manufacturing a sense of urgency to avoid the scenario where I never launch this thing. It’s telling that it feels like there’s been no meaningful progress in the past few months.

Goals

  • Foundation

    • Sleep before 1am at least 3 times this week
    • Swim 3 times
    • Work out 3 times

  • Road to Ramen

    • Write the rest of my 2020 Review

  • Browserflow

    • Support setting the cursor in code editors (required to automate the invoicing workflow)
    • Send the private beta announcement to 10 people on the waiting list