It's been awhile

I have a bunch of topics to write about floating around in my head, but I haven’t done a very good job of writing about them, have I? Last month, my old boss Mike Fisher unintentionally shamed me with his newsletter encouraging leaders to write. He also shames me every week by producing a new newsletter, just as he did every week internally for years at Etsy and has now done in public since leaving and then taking on a CEO role.

When I conceived of the newsletter, the plan was for it to provide me with a venue to write the draft of a book over time, but I believe that mission was too limiting. So instead I’m going to try to instead focus on writing and publishing something every couple of weeks.

At work we’re getting to the final stages of our annual planning cycle, and coincidentally November is my third anniversary on the job, so I’m feeling particularly reflective about how it’s going and what I’ve learned this year and over the past three years.

I have a couple of newsletters drafted in my head already, one is about the growth mindset, and another is about how I think about planning. It’s also about to be end of year review season and I always have plenty of thoughts on that as well.

Sorry for the radio silence, expect to hear from me more!