just played a sick riff using a peanut as my guitar pick wow

I wanna cover one thing I did well this week and one thing I did not do well.

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One thing I did well this week

The thing I did well this week is finally finding people I trust to handle the job of curriculum creation so that I can focus more on growth.

In December, it was basically me and another contract curriculum writer. We moved super slow because everything went through me. I had to approve every class we created. I did this purposefully because I wanted to make sure every class was “Zip” enough — meaning it was just as entertaining as it was educational. I literally made the powerpoints, wrote the teacher scripts, etc.

Now, Zip is really upping it’s class offering and I just couldn’t do that anymore. In December, we only offered around 12 science classes. In January, we’ve upped our offering to cover reading, science, and math. We’re offering 100+ classes right now.

In order to create new classes and grow, I had to separate my day-to-day from the task of curriculum creation while still communicating my vision of what a “Zip” class is. Lol. Not easy. But — now, things are pretty smooth. We have a team of writers and presentation creators that ship new classes every week. Class quality is super high and they’re dope.

I was always scared of handing this task off b/c I don’t want Zip to become this lame place that offers boring math and reading classes that students hate. I don’t want to accidentally recreate the education system that I’m trying to destroy, lol.

Learning: Focus day-to-day on growth but always be creating systems that maintain our product’s quality without needing to be there in the nitty-gritty of it all 24/7. Ex. I can’t make every Zip class myself anymore but we can have someone else make it, run the class, and survey our students directly to figure out how they felt about it. Use a combo of data and personal intuition to run processes.

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One thing I didn’t do well this week

I got rekt near the middle of the week by just…a backlog of tasks. Scheduling classes, figuring out health insurance, hiring new teachers, paying contractors, testing new deployments in staging, planning for our weekly meetings, onboarding new curriculum writers…

Just…so much stuff. I def got overloaded at one point in the middle of the week and didn’t make much progress on any task because I was constantly switching around lol.

Learning: New tasks will always pop up for me randomly throughout the day. That’s a fact. Regardless, just I just need to make sure I at least get the most important 2-3 tasks I can do that day done and if I don’t then no supper for Farza lmao.