Failing to create a boring spreadsheet nearly killed my online course

Why tedious organizational work is critical to any personal project you’re creating

Kai Wong
The Startup
Published in
7 min readApr 13, 2024

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A woman staring at her laptop with her hands on her head. Additional notebooks and organizers are all around her
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Imagine a young father of two who wants to create an online course. Between caring for the kids and a full-time job, he can only work on it at 3 AM before the world demands too much of him.

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Kai Wong
The Startup

7xTop writer in UX Design. UX, Data Viz, and Data. Author of Data-Informed UX Design: https://tinyurl.com/2p83hkav. Substack: https://dataanddesign.substack.com