# Monthly Checklist !![[Pasted image 20260418230038.png]] _Urgent ≠ Important. Track progress in a Google Sheet; quantify at month-end._ --- ## Hiring & People - [ ] **Close one stellar person** (Hillary, Christine, Evan, Di, or Rico, Namrata) → signed offer - [ ] **Design an offer she can't refuse** (e.g., $1M salary? equity structure? something unique) → draft on paper - [ ] **Pay Elizabeth's tuition in full?** → decide yes/no, execute if yes - [ ] Douglas → 3 months full time internship - [ ] **Hire one night-shift chemist** → offer out; rewrite JD to be weirder/more distinctive - [ ] Yao ? - [ ] Wenchao? - [ ] **Poach one person from Takeda (TAK-861 team)** → list top 5 targets by name this week; begin personal outreach via Esvelt/Boyden/Church or a16z/FF portcos - Targets: medchem lead, clinical ops lead, peripheral safety pharmacologist ## Research - [ ] **Antiviral program — kick off Experiment 1** → experiment running, first data in - [ ] **Secure ARPA-H grant for antiviral program** → solution summary submitted (via Mission Office ISO or matching program solicitation on SAM.gov / grants.gov) - [ ] get OXN KO mice shipped ## Advisors / SAB - [ ] **Close De Lecea** OR Scamell→ signed as advisor - Show up to his office if needed. - De Lecea → send the email; don't let the relationship slip - [ ] **Identify 3 more killer scientific advisors & start conversations** → 3 intros made - Shortlist (pick from): Baker, Hassabis, Koller, Jumper, Aspuru-Guzik, Hsu, Coley, White, Wang, Barzilay, Collins, Karpathy, Hie, AlQuraishi, Erlich, Jaakkola, Outeiral - Target: SAB ready for summer raise - [ ] **Get intros to 3 [of the above]** → warm intros secured ## Team / Ownership - [ ] **Give people more ownership to avoid urgent-sucks-in-important dynamic** - [ ] Assign on-site task owners (e.g., "Nico/Alex/Stephen owns task X") - [ ] Daily project leads (e.g., "Douglas owns synth → test of peptide by EOD") - [ ] **Switch feedback from weekly → daily** → tighter loops running by month-end - [ ] **Ask Jigisha to set up auto-email updates on core bottlenecks** → live **Chemistry** - [ ] **Jared's MOTSv1 peptides** → confirm ordered in quantities sufficient for multi-week mouse trials (we promised fast synth, queue collapsed — own this) - [ ] **Ace tracking every single synthesis step** → system in place ## Culture - [ ] **New company Bible — redesign with Isaak** → drafted, printed, distributed - Loop in Nico and Jigisha now that they're back - [ ] **Write "how to get shit done" style guide** → published internally - [ ] Have a good system in place for people using these guides - [ ] standup callouts? positively reinforce this ## Ops / Brand - [ ] **Company logo decision** → commit to Asimov wing OR ship a better option (low prio) 🔽 - [ ] **Get 2–3 alternative video editors working in parallel to James** (e.g., Drew) → best output wins, or pair best editor with James (high prio) ## Personal / Visibility !![[Pasted image 20260418204816.png]] - [ ] daily self testing - [ ] who do I want to be soon? P2 - [ ] **Build a "story of self"** → one written version I can actually deliver out loud, useful for Scamell, Danielle Strachman, fundraising - Get Isaak's help — he's good at this - [ ] **One "cool thing" to show about myself / aura-maxxing** → shipped (video, artifact, demo, whatever) - [ ] **Surround yourself with the best — show up in person** → 2 drop-ins done (Seth's office, Lada, others) - [ ] **Test meditation seriously** → 5 hours logged this month; decide if it's worth continuing - [ ] **Put yourself out there** — pick ONE and do it: - [ ] Start a human enhancement forum / niche subculture (HN-for-human-enhancement?) - [ ] Publish one blog post (topics: hiring, company learnings, personal growth) - [ ] Video about me on Drew's channel - [ ] Post on X / Reddit consistently for the month - _Principle: internet surface area compounds luck — pick the channel with the best people to extract from_ ## Tracking - [ ] **Google Sheet set up for priorities** — quantify at end of month: what got done, what didn't, why - [ ] Set this up for the team? - [ ] quantify stuff more ? → [goodhearts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law) law --- ### End-of-month review questions 1. Which of these moved the needle most? 2. Which got crowded out by urgent-not-important work? 3. What's the one system change that would have made this month 10x better? Other Tasks/Long List - distribute equity - equity tracker list - Jigisha equity and Douglas [[Equity]] - implement speakers in the lab to talk to iris -