Notes, 2020-11-30.

All political and moral post-rationalizations aside, I really just enjoy working on stuff. It is at times an irresponsible tendency, but it’s one which, after years of internal struggle, I now try to cut myself slack on. You can drag me kicking and screaming out of the workshop, I suppose, but it’s much harder to drag the workshop out of me.

So it is with great pleasure that I present to you the tools which I found most delightful, ingenious, and effective in tackling the work I did in 2020. Each of the items below has a home in The Prepared’s workshop, and I recommend them to you without hesitation.

Enjoy, and be sure to check out everything on The Prepared's tool guides from previous years as well - I have war stories about everything there :)

-Spencer Wright

Planning & Strategy.

• At the risk of being a shill, the professional-ish thing that kept me most sane this year was the way in which everyone in The Prepared’s Members’ Slack put their intellect and enthusiasm into making it an energetic and stimulating place to just hang out. I can’t emphasize enough how much they all have contributed to my sanity and understanding of the world over the past 12 months, a period in which I left a good job to become self employed during a pandemic 🤦. In retrospect, this year should have totally hollowed me out, but somehow it’s been the most social and rewarding experience of my professional life.