Your system stays clean with a weekly habit
The Tortoise and the Hare
The hare had speed but no consistency. The tortoise had a system — slow, steady, and reliable. Your data ecosystem works the same way: the exciting part is building it, but the part that makes it last is the 15-minute weekly review that keeps it clean, current, and trustworthy.
Core Concept
Systems decay without maintenance. Inboxes fill up, records go stale, backups silently fail, access lists grow. The weekly review ritual prevents this decay — not with heroic effort, but with a consistent 15-minute habit.
Today you'll build your ecosystem dashboard: a single view that shows the health of your system, upcoming tasks, recent activity, and anything that needs attention. Then you'll define your weekly review ritual — the 5-step process that keeps everything running.
Key Principles
Today's Deliverable
Create an ecosystem dashboard (Airtable view, Notion page, or simple HTML page) that shows: systems health, upcoming tasks, recent activity, and alerts. Define your 15-minute weekly review ritual using the template. Schedule your first review for next week.
Completion Checklist