Don't end the week with nothing

I’m starting a personal weekly goal of producing something I can show. The idea is based on Patrick McKenzie’s advice with the same title. Ever since I read it a few years back, it stuck with me. His advice boils down to: Don’t end the week with nothing. Prefer to work on things you can show. Ship it and intentionally seek feedback. A week seems the sweet spot with the way I operate. Shorter time means there will be too much pressure and I’ll just abandon it after a few days. Longer time means the project will be dragging. With a week, I can catch up if I miss a few days on not working on something at all, but with the right amount of urgency.

What should I work on? What qualifies a work that I can show here?

Ideally, I want to work on things that utilizes my accumulated capital. Something that demonstrates value I can provide. However I’m sure that it will not always be the case every week. I can work on things that enriches my life in any way. Be it writing a helpful blog I can reference in the future and publishing it. At the very least, I can work on anything I want as long I have a concrete valuable output to show. Just don’t end the week with nothing. This page will act an index what I have to show every week. Week 08: Personal Dashboard Week 09: Julie’s Contract Maker Week 10: Homebridge integration with Broadlink Week 11: THTF Facebook Bot Week 12: ERPNext implementation at CLP Week 13: Week 14: