My AI accountability partner

Today I used the first of three skills I've built around the concept of The 12 Week Year, that is planning your work as a '12 Week Year' supported by a grander vision. This was the planning-skill, next week I get to test the review-skill and when the 12 weeks are up I have a reset-skill to test. And then we go again! The original concept comes from one of the many productivity books I've read over the years, but it has always been a hassle to do the planning and then have the system set up to follow through each week. It tends to drift when the supporting system is my own Notion template or calendar and entirely dependent on my own will power.

There goes a lot into making sure you're taking the right actions to support the right goals, with some form of accountability baked in. So I built a Claude skill. Once we've nailed down the vision, the goals, the lead actions, and all the supporting structure, it feeds into a weekly review of how the week went -- what I did, what I didn't do.

I also have a daily briefing skill that tells me the week's plans, pulling from my calendar, email, Notion dashboard, and now incorporating these 12 Week Year goals.

I'm genuinely excited to use this system. It feels like I'm not doing it alone. I have someone who keeps track of what I actually get done, because I'm already telling my AI assistant the work I'm doing, as he works with me on most of it, especially the AI stuff. Now he has a tool to keep me accountable, and I have him to remind me which levers I need to pull to move things forward.

This was very fun to build and test out, and I'm sure I'll continue to iterate on it going forward!