Tiny Wins

Last Updated: 25th August 2023
5 min read
A tiny win is when you achieve something small that takes you a step in the right direction. The concept help you celebrate the journey and build up momentum as you go.
Mentioned in the blog post Tiny Wins.
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2023
January
- Arrived in Chiang Mai, Thailand 🇹🇭🍛🔥
- Updated Swiftly landing page
- Experienced Chinese new year in Chiang Mai
- 🎞️ Revisited shooting 35mm film around Chiang Mai
February
- 🤖 Built out OpenAI Experiments to help me explore OpenAI's GPT-3 API
- Watched Matt Pocock's NPM Library Speedrun
- Completed Total Typescript Beginner's Typescript
- Created a simple link builder for my site 🔗
- Added 🗺️ Travel Guide to mattspear.co
- Watched Lee Rob's new site code walkthrough
- Watched Episode 1 of Anton Teaches Packy AI
March
- 🚀 Completed 3 day intensive sprint with freelance client
- Finished listening to The Almanack of Naval Ravikant audiobook (🤫 it's free...)
- 🚃 Took a train from Chiang Mai to Bangkok
- Met up with Martin in Bangkok
- Added GPT-4 to my OpenAI Experiments
- 🚊🚌 Another train Bangkok to Trang to Ko Lanta
- 💸 Launched my first digital product: iOS Icon Pack for Prototyping Speed
- Watch an interesting interview with a billionaire private jet owner
- Took a week off visiting the islands, jungle and lakes.
- Ko Lanta 🏍️
- Ko Phi Phi 🏝️
- Khao Sok ⛵️
- Completed Total Typescript Zod Course
- Completed Productize Yourself by Brett Williams
- Arrived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 🇲🇾
April
- Visited Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur 🐒
- Launched 👁️ Peek on Gumroad
- Arrived in Canggu, Bali 🌊🇮🇩🏍️
- Saw a solar eclipse 🌘
- Turn the Swiftly.so orange
- Created a microsite for Peek
- 👁️ Peek approved for the App Store
- 🚧 Joined WIP.co, Thanks for the invite Sole 🙏
May
- 🚀 Attending AI Founders Meetup in Canggu
- Moved my OpenAI Experiments to aiexperiments.co
- Go to Physio 💪
- Added a Changelog to AI Experiments
- Published a Railway ExpressJS API Template
- Built a PassKit membership for freelance client
- 🤖 Completed ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
- Played with Mojo 🔥
- 😞 Caught Covid for a 2nd time
- Explored Ubud, Bali 🌴
- 🏍️ Roadtrip Ubud - Lake Batur - Lake Buyan (~180km)
June
- Weekend trip to Singapore 🇸🇬☔️🏙️
- Watch WWDC Keynote / State of the Union
- 🍏 Pushed my updated WWDC Tracker
- Experimented with Gradio, Modal and Langchain
- Built out an MVP of Conduct (now called veda.so)
- Attended Stripe Meetup in Bali, shared notes on HackerCabin
- 🐶 Dog party at Bwork
- Joined CS Primer
- Played with Framer Motion, built a GPT model selector
July
- 🚢 Started Mentoring on MentorCruise
- Attended talk 7 Lessons Growing a SaaS to $50k MRR from Jon Yongfook
- Watched Tailwind Connect 2023
- 🏍️ Roadtrip Ubud - Amlapura - Amed - Canggu (~285km)
- Switched back to Things 3 for task management 📥
- Watched Long Way Round (Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman) 🏍️
- Got to the bottom of my Uploadthing + Clerk bug
August
- Arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam 🇻🇳🍜🛵
- 📺 Rewatched Top Gear Special
- Completed LangChain: Chat with Your Data
- Watched the Long Way Down (Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman) 🏍️
- Joined 🌙 nights & weekends s4
- 🏍️ Bike trip from Hanoi to Da Nang (Ninh Binh - Mai Chau - Vinh - Phong Nha - Khe Sanh - Hue) totalling ~1600km
- Watch Race to Dakar (Charley Boorman) 🐪