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Essays on the weekly rhythm.
How small teams stay aligned without daily meetings, endless Slack, or another Asana board. Short, honest, from someone actually running the rhythm.
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Team goal tracking without OKRs (and when you might still want OKRs)
OKRs are a heavy framework for small teams. Here is a lighter way to run goals at every horizon, and the specific moment when OKRs start to earn their weight.
A Friday review template that takes five minutes
Most Friday reviews are either a meeting nobody prepared for or a doc nobody reads. This template is neither. It takes five minutes to run and keeps momentum visible.
Why the Notion standup template quietly breaks at 10 people
A Notion database for your weekly standup works for a while. Then the team grows, the template gets in the way, and one Sunday you find yourself rebuilding it.
The first week as a team lead: what to actually do
You have just become the team lead. Do not rewrite anything yet. Here is a week-by-week guide to the first month, built around a real weekly rhythm.
Why Monday, Wednesday, Friday — and not daily or weekly
A short argument for the Mon/Wed/Fri cadence as the minimum viable rhythm for small teams. Fewer touchpoints lose signal; more cost focus.
The weekly standup that actually works (and the one that doesn't)
Most weekly standups quietly die by week three. Here is the cadence and the shape of a standup that small teams stick with.