diff --git a/README-profiling.md b/README-profiling.md
index fb86fb095..ea925e670 100644
--- a/README-profiling.md
+++ b/README-profiling.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 * [https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/readme-profiling/README-go-port.md#performance-optimizations](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/readme-profiling/README-go-port.md#performance-optimizations)
 * [https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/new-in-miller-6/#performance-benchmarks](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/new-in-miller-6/#performance-benchmarks).
+* `make bench` to run Go benchmarks for Miller
 
 # How to view profile data
 
diff --git a/docs/src/index.md b/docs/src/index.md
index cdfdcb3cf..99051aed3 100644
--- a/docs/src/index.md
+++ b/docs/src/index.md
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ Quick links:
 <a class="quicklink" href="./release-docs/index.html">Release docs</a>
 </span>
 </div>
-
 # Introduction
 
 **Miller is a command-line tool for querying, shaping, and reformatting data files in various formats including CSV, TSV, and JSON.**
@@ -51,3 +50,5 @@ which allow you to succintly express your own logic.
 In the following you can see how CSV, TSV, tabular, JSON, and other **file formats** share a common theme which is **lists of key-value-pairs**. Miller embraces this common theme.
 
 ![coverart/cover-combined.png](coverart/cover-combined.png)
+
+**The big picture:** Even well into the 21st century, our world is full of text-formatted data like CSV. Google _CSV memes_, for example. We need tooling to _thrive in this world_, nimbly manipulating data which is in CSVs. And we need tooling to _move beyond CSV_, to be able to pull data out and into other storage and processing systems. Miller is designed for both these goals.
diff --git a/todo.txt b/todo.txt
index 1a9112363..11ba4ffaf 100644
--- a/todo.txt
+++ b/todo.txt
@@ -2,17 +2,10 @@
 PUNCHDOWN LIST
 
 * blockers:
-  - fractional-strptime
   - improved regex doc w/ lots of examples
   - cmp-matrices
-  - all-contribs: twi dm
-    https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors
-    yarn all-contributors add namegoeshere ideas
-  - license triple-checks
   - `mlr put` -> coverart
 
-* nikos materials -> fold in
-
 * cases/dsl-min-max-types: cmp-matrices need to be fixed to follow the advertised rule for mixed types
   NUMERICS < BOOL < VOID < STRING
 
@@ -23,18 +16,6 @@ PUNCHDOWN LIST
   o reference-main-regular-expressions:
     separate escaping for "\t" etc in arg-2/regex position -- "\t"."\t" example as well ...
 
-* datetime
-  o sysdate, sysdate_local; datediff ...
-  o .6S bugfix -- separate PR -- ?
-  o strptime w/ ...00.Z -> error
-  o strptime/strftime experiments ...
-    - verb sec2gmtdate
-      > leaves non-numbers as-is -- ?
-      > check sec2gmt as well -- ?
-    ! strptime:
-      strptime("1970-01-01T00:00:00.Z", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
-      (error)
-
 * doc
   o new-in-miller-6: missings:
     - dump syntax -- ?
@@ -70,8 +51,12 @@ PUNCHDOWN LIST
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 NON-BLOCKERS
 
+* sysdate, sysdate_local; datediff ...
+
 * JSON perf -- try alternate packages to encoding/json
 
+* strptime w/ ...00.Z -> error
+
 * pos/neg 0x/0b/0o UTs
 
 * 0o into BNF
@@ -362,6 +347,9 @@ no need to bootstrap a parser for the parser-generator language
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 INFO
 
+i https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors
+  yarn all-contributors add namegoeshere ideas
+
 i go tool nm -size mlr | sort -nrk 2
 
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