Retiring the Scoreboard: Why I’m Done Counting Books

For many years, I ran a 52 Books in 52 Weeks challenge on my blog, usually as my first blog post of the year, which I updated each month. It was an annual public commitment, a visible signal of intellectual seriousness, and a helpful forcing function. I

I launched Personal Strategy Compass as a premium newsletter a year ago. The decision made sense on paper: quality content, established expertise, proven frameworks. But something never quite felt settled.

Not wrong, exactly. Just… misaligned.

Then I drew an Oblique Strategies card during my own quarterly planning: “Honor thy error as a hidden intention.”

If

“I don’t have time for personal strategy planning. I’m so busy that I don’t have time to anything but work.”

Sound familiar?

In this month’s issue of my Personal Strategy Compass newsletter (paid subscription only), I’m tackling the #1 objection I hear about Personal Quarterly Offsites (PQOs). I’ve developed a stripped-down approach called the Minimum