This is our annual recap episode. We talk about how things went in 2025 and what we’re hoping to see in 2026.
Personal goals for 2026
- Rick
- Getting back to basics
- Going from reactive to proactive (and surviving to thriving)
- Shifting from a strategy of playing it safe and reducing risk to taking smart risk and being ok looking a little foolish
- Tyler
- Handle the transition back to full-time work (as it impacts parenting)
- Find clarity on what level of wealth we’re comfortable exposing our daughter to.
- Help Shelly find more ways to go out at night while I take care of Syd
- Finalize will+trust
- Stretch goal: Start vibe coding personal apps
Professional goals for 2026
- Rick (hopes to achieve at least two of these goals)
- Outsource, delegate, or automate recurring tasks that I no longer value doing and/or others don’t value me doing
- Try to grow LegUp Health by 50%, but do it in a way that we are all excited about
- Rebuild personal website + read 10 really, really good nonfiction books and publish notes on them
- Experiment with AI to generate 1 additional revenue stream
- Tyler
- Spend almost all IC time on design, product management, and coding. Fewer distractions!
- Management: Get the team up to speed on AI, and make it self-sustaining
- Product management/design: Figure out how to keep up with the devs (especially if AI allows them to move even faster)
- Product
- Ship Mobile and Kanban
- Reduce support by making things more self-serve
- Main theme: The first 30 minutes
- Onboarding improvements
- Rebuild the importing flow
- Simplification
- Separate contacts and companies
- Open contacts in page dialog
- Statuses on the contact record
- Table view of contacts
