Everything Everywhere All at Once

I've wanted to do this for a while, but here at JDHQ we tend to focus on a single task. It's just how me and Lucy work: we go deep on a thing. For months, that was the Small Business System. As soon as we finished that, we had to move house. As of yesterday, that's done.

Photo of butcher's paper on our wall with columns each for 'video', 'blog', and the Small Business System. Sticky notes show that we intended to produce videos & blog posts while building the SBS.

As a result, some of my own stuff is a bit of a mess. I haven't yet moved our own business over to the SBS. I have … checks … 61! to-do-like items in my Things inbox.¹ That's deliberate: I know none of them are time-critical, and I've been letting them build up so I could process them in public.

Mail: 147 items across a handful of mailboxes. Physical papers: a small stack to process. A couple of documents on my Desktop. And there'll be more as I discover it. Again, a conscious decision these last few weeks to let it build. Giving myself material to work with.

Oh yeah, and we're taking JDHQ international next month, moving to Vietnam with nothing more than a 10kg backpack.² So that'll take some organising. And the scope of my life has already narrowed dramatically: from a house full of stuff to one bag and a laptop. It becomes more important, then, that that laptop is immaculately organised.

The plan

So here's the plan: I'm going to meticulously document everything that I touch. I intend to become nothing less than The Most Organised Man in the World. To the point of absurdity: I don't recommend you do this! Because who has the time? A: me! It's my job, thanks to you.

But I do think that going really deep on this thing will be instructive. It'll reveal patterns. It'll force me to clean up my own documentation. It'll show me what works and what doesn't.

Daily: blog

This will mostly take the form of blog posts. So you're in the right place.

Weekly: YouTube

I'm going to try for a weekly round-up video on YouTube. Videos take much longer to produce, but Lucy's our editor so they can be happening in parallel.

I think most of this audience prefers having the words to refer back to, so I'm not planning any original content in the videos. They'll be a summary/recap style of the previous week's blog posts.

But sometimes it's easier to demonstrate something with moving pictures. Let's just see what happens.

Feedback: socials

Snippets will be cross-posted to Mastodon and Bluesky.

My 'comments section' is Discord and the forum, both of which have dedicated channels where I cross-post links to blog posts.

Tomorrow

I've been documenting my bestie's data storage & backup situation. She's a professional photographer so it's a) complicated and b) really important to get right.

I'll show you how I manage all that in my own Life Admin System at 14.14+MGH.