Personal 90-day plan (30-60-90)
Practicum for Chapter 11, "Your First 90 Days: A Personal Plan." Version: 2026-06-22. Time: 30 to 40 minutes. Start with your diagnosis from Chapter 9 in the Integrated profession audit map and the Transferability Canvas in the book's appendix.
Chapter 11 gives you a frame: one repeated task carried through to a change you can verify, not a list of 20 goals. This worksheet turns the chapter's one-page plan into a fillable form. Choose one task and finish it. A plan only works when you keep using it.
Main form: one task for 90 days
Do not create several goals in parallel. Take one task through an old rule, a new way of working, and a change you can verify.
- Task:
________________________________________________________________ - Old rule I follow now:
_________________________________ - New rule I want to make a habit:
_______________________________________ - Capability I will keep and practice myself:
____________________________ - Change that should be visible after 90 days:
___________________________
If you have several candidate tasks, choose one where someone else will notice the improvement, the work will leave behind a repeatable method, and AI will free you to use stronger judgment and take more responsibility. The Weak Multiplier Canvas is only an extra filter.
Choose a capability to practice: Naval's four pillars
The hardest field is "Capability I will keep and practice myself." When AI makes production cheaper, skills that anyone can quickly hire or copy lose some of their advantage. Investor Naval Ravikant described four pillars that have become even more useful in the AI era. Treat them as a guide for choosing a capability to protect and practice, not as a secret formula for success.
- Specific knowledge. You cannot learn it from a standard textbook or hire an identical replacement on the market. It grows from your path, curiosity, and unusual mix of interests. The more specific it is, the harder it is to copy. To practice it, follow your real interests instead of someone else's list of skills "in demand."
- Judgment. When leverage such as AI is cheap and available to almost everyone, the amount of work matters less than the quality of the decisions about where to use it and where not to trust it. Practice judgment at the AI-free checkpoints that you keep for yourself during days 1 to 30.
- Building and selling. One capability creates the result. The other gets it to the people who need it. Together they can produce an outsized return. AI can support both, but does not replace either one.
- Accountability. Leverage and trust go to the person who takes a visible risk and puts their name behind the result, not simply to the person who works the most hours. This connects directly to the evidence you will collect during days 31 to 60: a result under your own name.
This is one investor's view, not research or a guarantee of income. Use the structure without borrowing anyone else's numbers or promises. For more on leverage and its connection to transferability, see the Weak Multiplier Canvas. The original sources are Naval Ravikant's "How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)" (2018) and Eric Jorgenson's The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (2020, navalmanack.com).
Example: a contract review workflow
These completed fields show the method. The example does not describe a real company.
- Task: First review of standard contracts.
- Old rule: Send every legal question to outside counsel immediately.
- New rule: Check a standard risk internally first, using the team's accumulated practice.
- What stays with a human: Decide whether the case is standard, verify the conclusion, and decide whether a lawyer is needed.
- Verifiable change: The first review of a standard contract takes 15 to 20 minutes instead of several days of waiting. The team sends far fewer routine questions to outside counsel.
- Safety boundary: The data is anonymized or allowed under internal policy. A human, not the model, makes the final legal decision.
Days 1 to 30: build the working method
- What AI does:
___________________________________________________________ - What I check and decide:
____________________________________________________ - Where the work stops without a human:
___________________________________ - Baseline (how it works now):
_______________________________________________ - First sign of improvement:
__________________________________________________ - How I limit cognitive debt (what I do without AI):
______________________
Days 31 to 60: turn the method into a change
- What should change for a customer, team, or process:
________________________ - How I will prove the change (metric / decision / feedback / working document):
________ - How I will know the change happened:
____________________________________________ - What did not work and what I will adjust:
__________________________________________
Days 61 to 90: take more responsibility and make it stick
- Which result I now own more fully:
_________________________________ - What makes the new method repeatable (calendar time / template / check / responsible person):
_______________________________________________________ - When I will review this way of working:
______________________________________ - How I will know the change lasted:
____________________________________________
The metric: "How will I know it changed?"
You do not always need a number. You need an honest answer to "What will show me that it worked?" For example: "The report used to take a day and now takes 30 minutes"; "Three people in my industry shared my analysis"; or "I was invited to a project that had not considered me before."
Check in on days 30, 60, and 90
At the end of each period, return to the plan and mark what moved, what did not, and why. This is not an exam. It keeps you from dropping the plan and helps you adjust your course. A career is more like a climbing wall than a ladder. You need the next hold, not a view of the top.
| Day | What I check | What changed | Which rule won | What I change next |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | ||||
| 60 | ||||
| 90 |
Be honest: This plan cannot guarantee a result. It can improve the odds. Set your own pace instead of borrowing one from the book, and start small.
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