What question should I ask you next?
Given everything you’re actively building — Possible Planet, the Genesee–Finger Lakes bioregional intelligence work, NJ C-PACE strategy, your book, and now your personal health focus — the most valuable next question is one that either:
- Removes friction (simplifies your life or operations), or
- Creates leverage (moves a major initiative forward with one decision or artifact)
Here are a few high-leverage options I’d recommend, organized by outcome:
If you want clarity / focus
Ask:
“What are the 3 highest-leverage actions I should take in the next 30 days across all my projects?”
Why: You have many parallel tracks (book, CRCS, NJPACE, Planetary Intelligence Lab, bioregion dashboard, health). A prioritization pass can reduce cognitive load and prevent diffusion of effort.
If you want operational relief (assistant/CFO buildout)
Ask:
“Design my minimum viable operations stack so the organization can run without me day-to-day.”
I would then specify:
- roles (bookkeeper/CFO agent, research lead, NJPACE director, comms)
- tools (Google Workspace, Sheets, automations)
- weekly dashboards
- what gets delegated first
This directly supports your stated goal of simplifying your life.
If you want progress on the book
Ask:
“Help me outline and draft the next chapter of Possible Planet based on what we’ve already built, at publish-ready quality.”
You already have ~80k words. Momentum here compounds quickly.
If you want funding leverage
Ask:
“Draft a tight 2-page concept brief that I can send to funders explaining CRCS + C-PACE + Bioregional Intelligence as one coherent strategy.”
You’re often juggling explanations. A single crisp narrative becomes reusable across grants, partners, and events.
If you want health clarity (since you said this space may prioritize that)
Ask:
“Create a structured self-experiment plan to identify the causes of my itching and GI symptoms.”
This would include:
- elimination protocol
- symptom logging template
- labs to request
- hypotheses to test
My direct recommendation for you, specifically
Based on your current trajectory and stated desire to reduce overwhelm, the single most useful next prompt is:
“Design my personal and organizational operating system for 2026 — roles, tools, weekly rhythms, and what only I should personally do.”
That question creates structural leverage across everything else.
If you tell me which direction feels most urgent (focus, ops, book, funding, or health), I’ll go straight into execution mode on it.