The last day.
Sleep as usual is the trade-off item for me. I missed the cut-off time last night because I was doing most important work and was on a roll — so I kept going.
I was doing MIW late in the day because it was a busy day at work and I didn’t slot my normal 100 minutes into the front end of the day.
And (the real reason) I had a chunk of time that I used to start next week’s newsletter instead of devoting the time to MIW (the videos).
So it’s a cascading effect of a full day and poor priority handling when the opportunity came up. And all of that culminates with “late to bed” and of course that has a cascading effect on the next day.
In related (to MIW) news: housekeeping matters. I am keeping all of my files and resources in a semi-well organized folder. I am slowly creating a standard system for developing webcasts.
I read a mini biography of Hergé yesterday (author of the Tintin stories) and how he burned out from overwork, then built Hergé Studios with artists doing the time-consuming work, freeing him to conceive stories and ideas. Inspiring. I’m slowly trying to get that system assembled piecemeal around me—not successfully, so far. Meaning: I cannot count on reliable execution, even at the basic levels.
What I am doing, by trial and error, is this:
- Create a separate identity with a throwaway Gmail account.
- Set up a dedicated free Notion account to organize my thoughts, plans, templates, etc. there. Obsidian turned out to be a mess for me.
- Data files for now reside on my laptop. I do not like the GDrive aesthetic experience.
- Slowly and methodically I am finding resources I need: websites and email newsletters right now. The only topic I am deliberately seeking is “how to do email newsletter.” Other tangential stuff I will grab opportunistically, but I’m only looking for one thing.
- Fake email address or iCloud hide my email used to get newsletters.
- NetNewsWire used for RSS. Toying with Readwise Reader too because how do I get a blog post out of RSS and into Notion? This is a technical problem I have not yet solved: newsletter or web stuff into Notion.
- Notion has the Plan Initiation Document and a high level project plan under development.
- I do not have a good method of capturing product I have produced for re-use and repurposing.
The immediate goal is “build the subscriber numbers for the email newsletter.”
Ok. Time to sit with my laptop and put in the MIW.