My Last Ever To-Do List

December 17, 2025

Roll out pie dough for (encore!) apple pies and chocolate cream pie (it’s holiday party season!) Exercise (see #1) Attend NSA Northwest / AAPI Joint Caucus event: 3 Asian Reasons To Be A Successful Speaking Professional Top up my Claude API usage credits Set up my first beta testers Practice verb forms in Latin, particularly the future perfect Write copy explaining (a) why most people abandon traditional project management tools; (b) what’s deeply wrong with the latest chatbot-powered project managers – even (or especially) from the big players; (c) why you need a database as the source of truth; (d) how to use AI while maintaining privacy; and (e) what I built in response. Record a demo of the jaw-dropping capabilities of my latest project – factum erit – a conversational task management tool that uses an efficient LLM to query, populate, or bulk-edit records in Vikunja, an open-source project management system. It's a chatbot acting as an additional front-end to a persistent, structured, and exportable database that belongs entirely to you. Do some quick video editing and post the video on LinkedIn Tag and share with NSA Northwest members – especially the people I met at the wonderful holiday party last Friday! Invite people (especially those who comment on my newsletter) to join the beta test Write user acceptance scripts for the factum-erit chatbot in Slack Add a new task with a single prompt Add multiple tasks with a single prompt Add a new project with multiple tasks with a single prompt Add multiple projects and subprojects with a single prompt Build a kanban board with buckets and labels with a single prompt Set up task dependencies, blocking tasks, related tasks, subtasks, and sub-projects with a single prompt. Reorganize an entire hierarchy of projects and subprojects to make it better organized with a single prompt Write new version of “12 Days of Christmas” with a single prompt. Make dinner Keep tinkering for the big reveal. Do readings for Folio Philosophy Club on this month’s topic: “Philosophy of AI”

To-Do? The infinite infinitive.

Getting things done? A gerund in perpetual motion.

factum erit “It will have been done.” It's the future, perfect.

Just speak it.