At the beginning, this year held such promise.1 As the year has progressed, I hope you’ve found a good deal of that promise realized, done some good work, and done some good not working.
Looking Back
Along the way, it’s been wonderful to hear from several of you about how you’ve found the content here helpful. I’m grateful that’s been the case. As George Eliot remarked,
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?2
As we anticipate moving into next year, I’d like to make sure I’m continuing to release content that’s useful to you.
Looking Ahead
So, I’d here like to flip the usual script of providing commentary and giving advice. Instead, I’d like to invite you to give me some advice on what you feel would be most helpful to you next year.
- If you already get my weekly newsletter, you’re more than welcome to reply to one of those emails and let me know your thoughts.
- If not (or if you’d rather keep your responses anonymous), there’s a short, 5-question survey below. No question is required. So, feel free to skip any of them.
That said, please provide as much information as you feel comfortable sharing. The more information you provide, the more context I’ll have to help inform what I focus on next year. And the more helpful I can make next year’s content for you.
Normally, I get some sense of this in ad hoc interactions throughout the year. This invitation is just to explicitly welcome that feedback. If you’ve been in touch already, you’re welcome to add something you haven’t yet mentioned. Or if you haven’t, you’re welcome to mention a particular challenge(s) you’re facing.
Shortly after the new year begins, I’ll work through the responses, see what themes emerge, and plan how best to address those in the months ahead.
Meanwhile, thanks in advance so much for participating and helping me to help you hone your craft.
- Header image provided by Glenn Carstens-Peters. ↩︎
- George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study in Provincial Life (Edinburgh: Blackwood & Sons, 1872), 4:180–81. For making me aware of this apt question, I’m grateful to Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most (affiliate disclosure; New York: Currency, 2021). ↩︎
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