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aliases: ["April 2025"]
Is A: Month
Created at: "2025-04-28"
Belongs to: "[[25q2]]"
Rating: "😄"
---
# April 2025

## Focus

- Begin [[25q2-podcast-season-3]] production — new "Tactical Tuesday" format alongside regular episodes
- Start [[25q2-laputa-v2]] development — bidirectional linking, graph view improvements
- Plan [[25q2-team-retreat]] logistics for late May

## Highlights

- Recorded first 4 episodes of [[25q2-podcast-season-3]] including the debut "Tactical Tuesday" — 15-minute actionable episodes dropping every Tuesday
- Started [[25q2-laputa-v2]] with bidirectional linking engine — the backlinks panel is already transforming how I navigate between notes
- [[25q2-team-retreat]] booked: farmhouse outside Siena, 3 days in late May, agenda drafted with [[person-paco-furiani]]
- Newsletter at 58.5k subscribers — growth accelerating, referral program still compounding
- Published a deep-dive on "The Architecture of Engineering Onboarding" — 28k views, widely shared on HackerNews
- Cycling: 480 km, first real outdoor training block — spring is here and the motivation is high

## Reflections

April felt like the start of the real work for [[25q2]]. The "Tactical Tuesday" format for the podcast was an experiment born from reader feedback — people kept saying "I love the deep dives but sometimes I just need a quick actionable takeaway." So we're doing both: deep dives on Thursdays, tactical tips on Tuesdays. Early numbers are promising — the short episodes have a higher completion rate.

The Laputa work on bidirectional linking was technically challenging but incredibly satisfying. Clicking on a note and seeing all the other notes that link to it, without having to manually maintain those connections — it's the kind of feature that makes you wonder how you ever worked without it. My vault is starting to feel alive, like a knowledge graph I can actually traverse.

Planning the retreat with [[person-paco-furiani]] was a reminder of how much the team dynamic matters. We're four people working remotely, mostly asynchronously. That works for execution, but not for alignment. Three days together in Tuscany should fix that.
