1. Improve Impact

Public Writing

I want to publish more blog posts! I often find that I get new insights from writing, which is super cool. Also there's the sense of increasing your legibility, sharing what you're working on, etc.

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Git commits to this website

I've solved the "I love writing and find that writing in public is way more effective than writing in my Obsidian vault or whatever" issue!!! The trick is to have a "silent" blog on this site, which, unlike Substack, doesn't email people when I hit publish. Feels like the perfect Middle Way.

Setting the aim to two commits per day, because typically I do a post but also some kind of bug fix or new feature too....

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Operations Upskilling

I've been the "head of shared knowledge" & "process improvement specialist" at an Effective Altruism-aligned biotech startup (Alvea), and worked in ops + customer at Refract, a mental health startup.

However, I've never deliberately upskilled in this area (relying instead on taste, agency, and attention to detail), in part because I assumed that internal operations books would be bad and/or dry and/or non-useful.

However however, we're now in the Deep Research era, and I've been learning a bunch of stuff via my John Boyd project (e.g. systems thinking, complexity science) which has got me really excited to properly "crack the books" on this stuff. Dave Snoweden (of the Cynefin framework) also seems like a very exciting thinking to deep-dive on here.

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Systems Thinking

As above, systems thinking seems like it could be a really powerful body of knowledge for becoming a better operator, and especially w/r/t stuff like process improvement and setting up human-centric systems, avoiding key failure modes.

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