recently i've tweeted about how I'm using kanban in @NotionHQ to track my reading and writing, input and output
from my recent reading about kanban, the first step is to make the work visible. but once you do that, you are supposed to install "WIP" (work-in-progress) limits.
WIP limits have made Good Sense to me but haven't been sure how to do it in the work contexts that I'm exploring kanban in. I realized that WIP limits could really solve the throughput problems I'm experiencing with reading + writing
here are the WIP limits I'm trying for reading, based on Aristotle's three categories of friends (books are friends, amirite?) and also Jeff Bezos / my Audible subscription: 
here are the WIP limits I'm trying for writing - 1 post in progress for each of the key categories I'm trying to write about on my blog and elsewhere:
i learned years ago that reading and writing in parallel is more efficient for throughput than reading one book or writing one essay at a time.
but taking @fortelabs Building a Second Brain course (input) and @david_perell's Write of Passage (output) have made my previous way of working (read and write all the things in parallel) unsustainable - a good problem to have!
i think WIP limits might just get the best of both worlds - higher throughput from parallel input/output, and the focus that comes from limits
exploring this intersection of productivity and strategy in my personal life *first* seems like a safe-to-fail way to get my learnings in. looking forward to applying those learnings to the team I manage (fundraising) and later the larger organization @MonasticAcademy
@MonasticAcademy this is not *strictly* necessary but now i can have a nice side-by-side dashboard of input and output
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