Note Apr 20, 2026
Launch a profitable product
$847 MRR. Slow growth but the retention is good. Compounding.
Now
2026
— APRIL
Note Apr 4, 2026
Bench press my body weight
75kg × 5 reps today. Bodyweight is 82kg. Closer than I thought.
— MARCH
Note Mar 23, 2026
Launch a profitable product
First customer who's not from Twitter. Found us through search. New phase.
— JANUARY
Note Jan 4, 2026
Achieve financial independence
Calculated FI number this weekend. 17 years at current savings rate. Could be 12 if I stay disciplined.
2025
— DECEMBER
Closed Dec 4, 2025
Take kids camping
Yosemite. 4-year-old asked why there's no WiFi. By day 2, she stopped asking.
— NOVEMBER
Closed Nov 4, 2025
Write daily for 90 days
Built a real audience. The writing got better by day 40. Compounding is real.
— FEBRUARY
Closed Feb 14, 2025
Grow newsletter to 5k subscribers
Took 7 years of consistent writing. The last 1000 came in 3 weeks. That's how compounding works.
— JANUARY
Closed Jan 4, 2025
Read 52 books in a year
52 books. Slowed down in August. Sprinted in December. 100% would do again.
2024
— JUNE
Closed Jun 1, 2024
Launch my first product to paying customers
127 paying users on day one. Nothing prepared me for that feeling. Keep building.
— MAY
Closed May 4, 2024
Learn to code (actually)
I'm a founder who can ship features now. Two years of evenings. Worth every hour.
2023
— APRIL
Closed Apr 16, 2023
Run a half marathon
1h51m. Trained while the baby napped. Cried at km 19 thinking about her watching me someday.
2022
— NOVEMBER
Closed Nov 3, 2022
Welcome our first child
Everything I thought I knew about priorities rearranged in about 3 seconds.
2021
— SEPTEMBER
Closed Sep 11, 2021
Get married
Backyard ceremony. 14 people. She wore blue. The best thing I've ever done.
2020
— MARCH
Closed Mar 1, 2020
Leave corporate and go all-in on startups
Quit with 6 months of savings and an idea. The timing with COVID was chaotic. I learned more that year than the previous five.
2019
— DECEMBER
Closed Dec 29, 2019
Read 30 books in a year
Biographies and business mostly. The 10 fiction ones were the ones that changed me.
2018
— DECEMBER
Closed Dec 31, 2018
Start a blog and keep it for a year
52 posts. Mostly unread. One post got 20k views and started everything that came after.
2017
— FEBRUARY
Closed Feb 1, 2017
Land my first real job
Strategy consultant. Suits and spreadsheets. Learned how businesses think. Then left as fast as I could.
2016
— MAY
Closed May 22, 2016
Graduate college
Economics degree. Barely used it. The friendships I made are irreplaceable.