Another QR Code Bites The Dust: 6 Uncommon 1st Time Founder Mistakes (my SaaS story)
I shoulda been selling ice cream on a beach
I Wish I Studied Engineering In College
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2023 Year In Review
What happened in 2023? Objectively, it should have been a pretty good year, but something doesn’t feel right. This is a long one. Strap in. š« health stuff š¼ career stuff š¤ money stuff šŗ fun stuff š§¬ life stuff …which can all be boiled down to this: š Pros – I stayed fit, traveled a ton, […]
How I Write
This blog recently celebrated itās 1st birthday, and lo and behold, a bit of a writing system has emerged. Kinda the point! This post is about how I post posts. If not for you, this oneās for me. To put it all on paper. After all, clear writing = clear thinking. Raw Content Generation I donāt […]
The Only Way Out Is Through
Itās been nearly a year since I quit my job to be an āentrepreneurā, and would ya look at that, the Impostor Syndrome is really starting to sink in. I quit my day job because I doubted my ability to deliver if my attention was split between work and side projects. In classic whack-a-mole fashion, solving that […]
Man Learns to Code at Tender Age of 31
My hand trembled with anticipation as it hovered over theĀ enter key. 6 weeks of hard work had led to this moment. Sickened by months of manual Excel work, I had finally cobbled together a bloated code file that might be smart enough to do all of that mind-numbing work for me. Emerging from hundreds of lines of […]
2022 Year In Review
What happened in 2022? 2022 was a year of major transition for me as I quit my job and struck out on my own. Inspired my newly acquired āfree agentā status, I conducted my first personal annual review. Hereās what went down in 2022 (in no particular order): š« health stuff š¼ career stuff š§ brain […]
A Lunatic’s Guide To Productivity
“Crazy”. “Insane”. “He’s a lunatic”. All words or phrases commonly used to describe me. Nowhere does my lunacy shine brighter than in my relentless pursuit of time efficiency and productive output. This is probably because I hate wasting time, but partially because Iām taking a risky turn in life. Spend 2 minutes scrolling through the […]
What Have I Done?
I’ve done it. I quit my job. Cue the “what have I done!?” tsunami. Just joking. Iāve been thinking about it for a long time. I’m 31 with 9 years of experience in finance. Things have been going smoothly, or at least they appear to be from the outside looking in… but the recent reality […]
Why I Started This Blog
Iāve been thinking about starting a blog for a while, but here I am… sitting at Hong Kong International Airport with two hours until my flight to New York, and something just came over me, so I started typing away. Here goes nothing. I started this blog for three reasons: Clear writing = clear thinking […]