Rebirth / Welcoming 2022

This is our annual retro/goal-setting episode. Here's what we cover:

Personal updates from 2021

TylerGoal from last year: ✅Spend more time with family and friends once vaccinatedOther updatesStarted exercisingFroze embryosRickGoals from last year✅ Get sleep under control✅ Adjust to being a dadOther updatesWasn't good about exercisingHas only been on one date with Sable

Professional updates from 2021

TylerGoals from last year✅ Get marketing to a point where if can be delegated❓ Design a new appointment scheduler product✅ Biggest worry: Growth leveling off❓ Want to learn: Re-learn how to iterate and move fastBiggest disappointment: Losing a developer right when the product team was building momentumBiggest learning: Wants to be a product designerOther updates:Fewer management responsibilitiesSigned biggest client to-dateFull-funded the treasuryRickGoals from last year❌ Get to $10k MRR. ✅ Automate/delegate so service can be scalable. ✅ Biggest worry: Being able to scale service. ✅ Want to learn: Learn more coding, especially working with API data and generating dynamic emails.Biggest disappointment:  Not being able to work on LegUp Health full timeBiggest learning:  Sharing the journey at LegUp Health is better than going solo Other updates: Tried bringing on another friend as a Marketing contractor, but he decided to take a full-time job before he ramped up 

2022 Personal themes/goals

TylerPlan for travel as part of relationshipBuild more schedule flexibility so things can be done without needing willpower (e.g. exercise mid-day)RickReprioritize daily personal health habits (write/exercise before family wakes up, daily calorie tracking)Spend more quality time with Sable (have a date most weeks) and Oliver (take on errands)

2022 Professional themes/goals

TylerTheme: Spend more time working, but on my own termsMake space to do more individual contributor design workOther thingsRelease 3.9 designTwo blog post-worthy releases per quarterBy end of year, have an equal balance of tech debt, core CRM, strategy, and product-led growth work on the dev teamRun the coding fellowshipRickSupport the growth of LeUp HealthStructure a partnership and financial plan that enables JD to go full-timeGrow the business to 400 clientsFully automate the new user onboarding experienceHelp scale Windfall the right way Prioritize both performance and peopleBe a team playerDeliver on my responsibilities

Biggest worry

Tyler: Growth slowed in 2021. Will it come back?Rick: Retaining JD for the long term

What do we want to learn?

Tyler: More professional visual designRick: First principles of leading others (e.g. influence, motivation, habits, trust, negotiation, communication, and decision-making)

Predictions

Last yearTyler: ❌ San Francisco will become a good place for early-stage startups againRick: ❓ Asynchronous video will become big in professional settingsNext yearTyler: The world will be less interested in speculative bubbles (NFTs, meme stocks, etc.)Rick: VR headset use is going to become as common as playing a Wii