You already do this with money. Nobody asks whether last month felt expensive — you open the statement and read the lines. Week one has a statement too: five days of your own sentences, kept in this browser and nowhere else.
Nothing on this page calls an AI. You run everything in your own account.
A Friday review that lists what went well is a mood, and moods do not survive Monday. The one that changes anything names the thing you would fumble in front of somebody, and says what you will do about it before the week turns over.
Three columns are enough. Run them on the five days below.
| What you did | What it cost | What you would not repeat |
|---|---|---|
| Handed over the supplier report | Ten minutes, two goes | Describing the file instead of attaching it |
| Checked a claim in the board pack | Twenty minutes | Taking the citation's word for it |
| Wrote the decision down | Four minutes | Leaving out who owns it |
Cost is not a score. The number decides one thing only: whether you do that same job the same way again next week.
Read them in one go.
Which of the five would you fumble on Monday if somebody watched? Not the one you liked least.
Write it as one line you could send to a colleague: “Day 4 — I still cannot tell a source that supports a claim from one that only sits near it.” A named weakness is something you can practise. “Needs work” is not.
Why this is the whole reflection. A review that only lists what went well is a feeling. Naming the one you would fumble is the only part that changes next week — and it is the part every weekly review quietly drops.
Practise: run that day again this week on a document somebody else wrote.
Here is a real shape of week one. Day 1 done properly on a Monday evening. Day 2 skipped. Day 3 opened, read, closed. Day 4 attempted at 11pm and abandoned halfway. Day 5 not touched. One day out of five, and a fortnight later nobody remembers what day 3 was about.
The wrong move is starting again from day 1, because the material was never the problem. The useful move is smaller: take the one day you finished and run it a second time this week on real work. One day done twice beats five days read once, and it is the only version of this that has ever survived a Thursday.
Practise: open the day you actually finished, not the first one you missed.
Nothing here is required and nothing is marked. Take one — most usefully the day you called your weakest.
Close the week the way lesson 5.4 closes a piece of work. Three lines, on yourself this time.
Week one worked on material you already understand. Week two takes the same four moves onto ground you do not: something you have never learned, something that broke, material that is not yours, and the decision you must not hand over at all.
Before Monday, take the line you wrote above and put it where you will hit it — a calendar note, the top of your task list, a sticky on the monitor. A rule you cannot see is a rule you have already dropped.