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Saturday Recap #37
What You Designed
Justin Glover
December 27, 2025
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🧠 This Week’s Perspective Shift
From: reflection as review
To: reflection as reinstallation
Theme for the Quarter: Intelligent Elevation
Theme for the Week: What You Designed
Quote of the Week:
“If you don’t install it, you’ll end up repeating it.”
Justin’s Weekly Reflection
This week pulled something deeper out of me than I expected.
Not just memories of what I built in 2025…
but insights into who I became while building it.
The deeper I reflected, the clearer the pattern:
I’ve been designing systems for outcomes. But I’ve also been designing outcomes that reflect a deeper system (my own state, my beliefs, my defaults)
It’s easy to write off the year with a revenue summary or a milestone list.
But what actually shifted was me.
How I work.
How I think.
What I tolerate.
Where I default.
And most importantly, what I build from.
And here’s the part I almost missed:
If I don’t take time to codify that shift,
I’ll wake up in 2026 with my old OS still running.
That’s what this week was about:
Compressing the year into clarity
Turning decisions into direction
Making identity upgrades permanent
This isn’t nostalgia.
It’s reinstallation.
And if you’ve done the work this year?
Give yourself the gift of writing the code that’ll carry it forward.
Let your 2026 self say thank you.
— Justin
Now for the recap …
📬 Weekly Recap: What You Designed
This week was about harvesting more than memories.
We went beyond what got done—and into how you were shaped.
Because your real ROI isn’t just in tasks completed.
It’s in the new operating system you became.
When you see your patterns clearly,
When you close the loops draining you,
When you codify the identity you grew into…
That’s when next year becomes a continuation, not a reset.
Here’s how we locked it in this week 👇
This Week’s Highlights:
Monday – You Built More Than You Shipped
“Some of your best work has no KPI—but shaped everything.”
You learned how to:
Notice the invisible projects you carried
Acknowledge the real cost of growth
Reflect with clarity instead of just metrics
Tuesday – Rewatch the Game Tape
“You didn’t just move through the year. You became someone.”
You learned how to:
Spot the mental shifts behind your milestones
Track internal evolution, not just external events
Use guided prompts to spot your own growth patterns
Wednesday – Anchor the Wins Into Identity
“Success isn’t an event. It’s a pattern you can install.”
You learned how to:
Distill accomplishments into beliefs
Shift from performance to embodiment
Make wins part of your OS, not just your memory
Thursday – Close the Loops That Drain You
“Mental bandwidth isn’t about capacity. It’s about closure.”
You learned how to:
Run a founder-style shutdown sequence
Close the energetic loops still open in your system
Create whitespace for real recovery and vision
Friday – Write the OS You’re Taking With You
“Don’t just reflect. Recompile.”
You learned how to:
Turn your year into a decision-making OS
Write your personal README for 2025
Carry forward clarity without carrying forward clutter
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🏆 Tip of the Week:
Friday – Write the OS You’re Taking With You
This one sparked the most energy.
It gave founders a tangible way to lock in their growth—not just feel it.
Your Founder README becomes the software you run next year on.
If you revisit anything this weekend, let it be this:
👉 Revisit it here
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