Projects — Current Efforts

In the Second Brain PARA system, a Project is anything with a defined goal and an end date. Unlike Areas (which are maintained indefinitely), projects finish. This page tracks every active project, its status, key risks, and which knowledge resources feed into it.

1. Side-Project MVP

Project notes:

• The payment integration blocker is the single thing that stands between a demo and a real beta. Resolve this first.
• Beta feedback loop: run customer interviews using The Mom Test principles — ask about past behavior and real life, not hypotheticals. *"How do you solve this today?"* beats *"Would you buy?"* [Capture inbox.md]
• Use morning deep-work blocks (launch sprint mode) drawn from Deep Work — focus is a scarce resource; protect distraction-free time deliberately. [Capture inbox.md]

💡 Distilled insight: The June demo quote is real signal (behavior, not a compliment). It directly points to the payment integration as the thing to ship — not more features.

Linked resources:

• Deep Work → morning focus blocks for the sprint
• The Mom Test → beta interview technique

2. SEO Blog Posts (3 articles)

Topic ideas: [Capture inbox.md]

• *The second-brain trap*
• *Notion alternatives*
• *Compounding knowledge*

Notes:

• A public wiki could double as an SEO lead magnet — idea worth testing alongside the blog posts. [Capture inbox.md]
• Writing also serves Career & Growth: *use writing to clarify thinking*.
• "Compounding knowledge" directly connects to Atomic Habits — the 1% compounding frame is a strong narrative hook.

*Deep Work feeds both projects. The Mom Test is essential for beta interviews. Atomic Habits underpins the compounding-knowledge narrative for SEO.*

These are in the capture inbox and may become resources once read:

• Remote (37signals) — relevant to async work culture
• Zero to One (Peter Thiel) — relevant to the MVP / startup thinking [Capture inbox.md]

This page is the Projects node in the PARA Dashboard. When a project ends or stalls, it moves to Archive. Knowledge distilled during a project graduates to Resources for future use — that is the CODE loop: Capture → Organize → Distill → Express. [Capture inbox.md]