What do you want to change in 2024?

1. Continue: What were the high points of 2023? What do you want to keep doing or do more of?
2. Start: What do you want to start doing in 2024? What will be different for you if you do that? What is motivating you to start something new?
3. Stop: To do more of something or to start something new means doing less of something else because there's only so many hours each day. What will you do less of? What are some frustrating or unhelpful activities you could stop doing?

• On Friday, January 12th, I'll be doing a LinkedIn live event with Shyvee Shi as part of her Product Management Learning Series. We will be applying the ideas from the book to several career scenarios that PMs face, and taking questions from the audience. Please join us!
• I wrote up my experience with writing, editing and publishing the book as several other would-be authors have asked for tips or advice.
• Please write a review if you want to support my ideas reaching a wider audience, as getting past 100 Amazon reviews will create greater credibility with potential buyers and with the Amazon algorithm.

• The Work Item podcast with Den Delimarsky
• One Sharp Sword with Dr. Wayne Pernell
• Business Builders Show with Bill Prater
• Back2Basics: Reconnecting with Purpose with Leticia Latino-van Splunteren

• Practice isn't enough even for a high performer. Don't try something for the first time in a high stakes environment. Instead, practice in lower stakes settings first so that you're ready for the high stakes meeting when it arrives.
• Take the initiative to organize events. As Charlie O'Donnell observes, "There are far more people willing to show up to something than people willing to do the work to organize."

• This clip from a Taraji Henson interview is heartbreaking. What she said is in this Variety article: "I’m just tired of working so hard, being gracious at what I do [and] getting paid a fraction of the cost", reflecting on her experience where she has to prove herself and negotiate to get paid for every single project, rather than her reputation speaking for her.
• Substack has a Nazi problem, by Jonathan Katz in the Atlantic. This was what I expected when I left Substack in April, that the lack of moderation would lead to a cesspool of "free speech" (aka Nazis). I'm a little sad that it happened so quickly, but it felt inevitable. Katz wrote a petition for Substackers to protest Substack's position, but I expect more and more people to abandon Substack for other newsletter providers. I went to Mailpoet, a Wordpress plugin, and I've heard good things about Ghost.
• The strength of Taylor Swift, by Casey Johnston. I loved this description of how Taylor Swift has evolved, showing videos of her touring ten years ago (when she struggled to get through a 90 minute show because she was suffering from an eating disorder) and on the Eras tour (which she trained for six months for, including strength training and singing the set list on the treadmill, so that she could stay strong for the full three hour show and still be present and goofy with the fans). I'm inspired by her shift from trying to conform to unreasonable beauty standards (like being a size zero) to feeling comfortable with her own size and strength (as a size six).