Hi folks,

I've been stretched too thin lately, and am risking further burnout by trying to continue doing too many things. So in an effort to keep myself more sustainable, I'm scaling back and focusing on a smaller set of activities.

My original hope was to spend some real time thinking about reputation-based ("Salmon"-like) bridge distribution strategies, first because it is a good self-contained topic and second because we have funding for it and nobody is scheduled to work on it. But funder relationship tasks keep coming up, so my best remaining plan is to try to balance the "funder presentation" interrupts with the "get some uninterrupted time to think about Salmon" goal.

I've written my priorities, framed loosely as OKRs but I admit it's more like a roadmap, on a new wiki page: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/arma with the goal that it will be easier for other people to follow along with what I'm up to.

For this round I am also using this list of priorities as a way to constrain my scope: I plan to drop things that aren't on this list. That is, I'm moving from "best effort, try to do all the things but actually do too many of them poorly" to "by default, do not do things that aren't on this list."

My immediate next steps are to make gitlab tickets for the upcoming tasks, so my gitlab board will better reflect reality. I am going to spend the rest of this week continuing to do too many things, and this weekend I will switch gears to start the new plan. So if there is something you still need from me, it's best to remind me about it this week.

Thank you for your understanding as I attempt this new experiment with trying to get back to being productive while also staying sane. :)

--Roger