3/3/2026
My Dear Friend & POTUS, DJT,
How many projects do you have? Too many to count? According to AI “there is no fixed number of projects one person can keep track of, as it depends heavily on project complexity, size, required involvement, & individual capacity.”
Maybe you have about 75 projects in your administration, that’s assuming each of your secretaries has 5 priority projects & you have some working knowledge of each one. I don’t know how you keep track of all that! Maybe you don’t. Perhaps you just take one thing at a time, make whatever decision is required & let your people do the rest.
That system depends on having the best possible people in place with the expertise & experience to get the job done. I’m not convinced you have that, so you could consider a) cutting back on the number of initiatives &/or b) worrying less about secretaries allegiances & more about their resume.
Right now I’m wondering if your Sec of War & Sec of Homeland Security are the right people for their jobs! They are giving you bad advice & aren't great at running their units.
I’m thinking about personal capacity for projects, because I have the luxury of choosing how many things to get involved in as a retiree. The organizations I belong to have to make some hard choices, too. Davis Friends Meeting has to calibrate how much we can take on. Washington Common Cohousing needs to be judicious about the use of our human resources. No easy answers!
I’ll close, as usual, with an update on Burma which is somewhat positive. Yesterday was “Peasant’s Day,” a day dedicated to “the skilled farmers who toil in the sun every day so that the citizens can have food to eat, & the nation can develop.” MAH marked the holiday by pardoning 10,162 prisoners, including 7,337 convicted under the counterterrorism law. Many of them will get out for a short time only to be rearrested, but at least they will get some time with their families.
I hope your meeting with Chancellor Friedrich Merz goes well today. According to the G, he “has a sharp tongue & visibly enjoys the sound of his own voice,” so your conversation should be an interesting one. Please do not sell him any weapons.
WINTA!
BYBS,
