Day 16: Set the weekly Monday rhythm

25 minutes every Monday, before email — the cadence that compounds.

Yesterday

Yesterday you built the watchlist. Today you commit to the rhythm that makes it pay.

Why this signal matters

Sourcing systems fail on cadence, not on framework. The investors who outperform on deal flow run the same procedure on the same day every week. 25 minutes Mondays before email is the smallest commitment that survives a busy week.

The 5-minute exercise

1Block 25 minutes on Monday morning, recurring, before you open email.
2Open the watchlist CSV.
3Score signal 1 (commit velocity) on all 10 orgs — that's the fastest signal, do it first.
4Note any score that moved by 0.5+ on that signal alone.
5Schedule a follow-through to score the moved orgs in full later that day.

What you’re filtering for

Recurring 25-min Monday block on your calendar. If you can't protect 25 minutes once a week, the system can't compound — better to drop to 5 orgs in the watchlist and protect the time.

Edge case

Mondays of conferences or board meetings will break the rhythm. Use Tuesday morning as the fallback day; don't skip the week.

Bonus

After 4 Mondays, you'll have 40 datapoints across 10 orgs. That's enough to spot the slope, not just the snapshot.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow: the sector batch — running 25 orgs in 25 minutes when one sector starts getting hot.

Curriculum: /challenge · Methodology: /methodology · Paper: ssrn.com/abstract=6606558