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

Personal updates from 2021

• Tyler
  • Goal from last year: ✅Spend more time with family and friends once vaccinated
  • Other updates
    • Started exercising
    • Froze embryos
• Rick
  • Goals from last year
    • ✅ Get sleep under control
    • ✅ Adjust to being a dad
  • Other updates
    • Wasn't good about exercising
    • Has only been on one date with Sable

Professional updates from 2021

• Tyler
  • Goals 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 fast
  • Biggest disappointment: Losing a developer right when the product team was building momentum
  • Biggest learning: Wants to be a product designer
  • Other updates:
    • Fewer management responsibilities
    • Signed biggest client to-date
    • Full-funded the treasury
• Rick
  • Goals 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 time
  • Biggest 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

• Tyler
  • Plan for travel as part of relationship
  • Build more schedule flexibility so things can be done without needing willpower (e.g. exercise mid-day)
• Rick
  • Reprioritize 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

• Tyler
  • Theme: Spend more time working, but on my own terms
  • Make space to do more individual contributor design work
  • Other things
    • Release 3.9 design
    • Two blog post-worthy releases per quarter
    • By end of year, have an equal balance of tech debt, core CRM, strategy, and product-led growth work on the dev team
    • Run the coding fellowship
• Rick
  • Support the growth of LeUp Health
    • Structure a partnership and financial plan that enables JD to go full-time
    • Grow the business to 400 clients
    • Fully automate the new user onboarding experience
  • Help scale Windfall the right way 
    • Prioritize both performance and people
    • Be a team player
    • Deliver 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 design
• Rick: First principles of leading others (e.g. influence, motivation, habits, trust, negotiation, communication, and decision-making)

Predictions

• Last year
  • Tyler: ❌ San Francisco will become a good place for early-stage startups again
  • Rick: ❓ Asynchronous video will become big in professional settings
• Next year
  • Tyler: 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