It’s Thursday, which in my week is the conclusion of the Deep Work sprint for the week, and time to sum up how things went.

The main goal this week was to vomitout a part of my book proposal on “Why I’m the Right Person to Write ‘7 Hard Problems'”.

Good news:

1. I did vomitout the “Right Person” section.  It’s just a vomitout so far ( and therefore not ready for prime time), so I’m going to hold it back for the moment, but I did do it.
2. I got a lot of good ideas about more general platform stuff, like how to work with an online group of followers that’s small.  The basic scheme is to always add value to the crewe even you can’t deliver much value from having a big network.  I think I can add value to people who follow me by doing some of the things I’ve done in the past that have invited engagement: talking about what I’m thinking about, talking deeply about PIM issues and PIM technologies, and generally trying to be interesting to my virtual committee here on line.

Things didn’t go as well in a couple of other areas:

1. TED Talks.  I’m still not sure I understand how to use them as part of my work.  I think it’d be a kick to do a TED talk, and it might make a big difference to me, but it’s also a lot of effort and maybe that effort should just be poured into the book.
2. Finish Althusser.  I made progress, but didn’t read much this week and didn’t finish “Lenin and Philosophy”.  I got bogged down in a sub-dither about whether or not I had to read Hegel, and progress forward ground to a halt.
3. Finishing the Jungian shrink book “Finding Meaning…”.    I did finish it, but there was something very unsatisfying about this book.  Partly has to do with what I’ll call the repetitive vagueness of his prose.  Jung is a bit vague from time to time, but never repetitive and always interesting.  Serves me right for accepting a stand-in for the man himself.  I’m going to move forward by reading a couple of things of Jung’s: “Memories, Dreams, Reflections”, and a Modern Library collection, “The Basic Writings of CG Jung.”  I’ve read them before, so I may bag it if it seems like I’m not getting anything new out of the exercise.

So, a good week for the Work, a good first outing for the “blog every day” scheme.

Tomorrow’s blog is “Hack of the Week”, another (I hope!) regular feature of some cool tech- or Life- hack I think might be newsworthy and interesting.

Let me know what you liked or didn’t like, want more of or less of.