Tiny Wins
Last Updated: 3rd December 2023
6 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.
See previous years: 2021, 2022...
2023
January
- Arrived in Chiang Mai, Thailand ๐น๐ญ๐๐ฅ
- Updated Swiftly landing page
- Experienced Chinese new year in Chiang Mai
- ๐๏ธ Revisited shooting 35mm film around Chiang Mai
February
- ๐ค 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 ๐
- Added ๐บ๏ธ Travel Guide to mattspear.co
- Watched Lee Rob's new site code walkthrough
- Watched Episode 1 of Anton Teaches Packy AI
March
- ๐ Completed 3 day intensive sprint with freelance client
- Finished listening to The Almanack of Naval Ravikant audiobook (๐คซ it's free...)
- ๐ Took a train from Chiang Mai to Bangkok
- Met up with Martin in Bangkok
- Added GPT-4 to my OpenAI Experiments
- ๐๐ Another train Bangkok to Trang to Ko Lanta
- ๐ธ Launched my first digital product: iOS Icon Pack for Prototyping Speed
- Watched an interesting interview with a billionaire private jet owner
- Took a week off visiting the islands, jungle and lakes.
- Ko Lanta ๐๏ธ
- Ko Phi Phi ๐๏ธ
- Khao Sok โต๏ธ
- Completed Total Typescript Zod Course
- Completed Productize Yourself by Brett Williams
- Arrived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ๐ฒ๐พ
April
- Visited Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur ๐
- Launched ๐๏ธ Peek on Gumroad
- Arrived in Canggu, Bali ๐๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๏ธ
- Saw a solar eclipse ๐
- Turn the Swiftly.so orange
- Created a microsite for Peek
- ๐๏ธ Peek approved for the App Store
- ๐ง Joined WIP.co, Thanks for the invite Sole ๐
May
- ๐ Attending AI Founders Meetup in Canggu
- Moved my OpenAI Experiments to aiexperiments.co
- Went to Physio ๐ช
- Added a Changelog to AI Experiments
- Published a Railway ExpressJS API Template
- Built a PassKit membership for freelance client
- ๐ค Completed ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
- Played with Mojo ๐ฅ
- ๐ Caught Covid for a 2nd time
- Explored Ubud, Bali ๐ด
- ๐๏ธ Roadtrip Ubud - Lake Batur - Lake Buyan (~180km)
June
- Weekend trip to Singapore ๐ธ๐ฌโ๏ธ๐๏ธ
- Watched WWDC Keynote / State of the Union
- ๐ 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
- ๐ถ Dog party at Bwork
- Joined CS Primer
- Played with Framer Motion, built a GPT model selector
July
- ๐ข Started Mentoring on MentorCruise
- Attended talk 7 Lessons Growing a SaaS to $50k MRR from Jon Yongfook
- Watched Tailwind Connect 2023
- ๐๏ธ Roadtrip Ubud - Amlapura - Amed - Canggu (~285km)
- Switched back to Things 3 for task management ๐ฅ
- Watched Long Way Round (Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman) ๐๏ธ
- Got to the bottom of my Uploadthing + Clerk bug
August
- Arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam ๐ป๐ณ๐๐ต
- ๐บ Rewatched Top Gear Special
- Completed LangChain: Chat with Your Data
- Watched the Long Way Down (Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman) ๐๏ธ
- Joined ๐ nights & weekends s4
- ๐๏ธ Bike trip from Hanoi to Da Nang (Ninh Binh - Mai Chau - Vinh - Phong Nha - Khe Sanh - Hue) totalling ~1600km
- Watched Catching up on the weird world of LLMs
- Watched Race to Dakar (Charley Boorman) ๐ช
- Saw the lanterns in Hoi An ๐ฎ
September
- Arrived in Chiang Mai, Thailand ๐น๐ญ๐๐ฅ
- Listen to Senior Mindset Audiobook
- Passed and received my Thai bike license @ Honda ๐๏ธ๐ชช
- Test ride on a Honda CB500x
- Watched Itchy Boots THE MOVIE, insanely inspired!
- Watched A Hackers' Guide to Language Models
October
- Stayed in the hills of Chiang Mai at Kirin Farm with goats ๐๏ธ๐
- ๐ข 2 mentees strong on MentorCruise
- Redesign of Veda
- Arrive in Tokyo, Japan ๐ฏ๐ต๐๐
- ๐ Rode the Shinkansen
- Sushi conveyor belt ๐ฃ
- Turned 30 ๐
November
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Arrive back in Kyoto ๐ฏ๐ตโฉ๏ธ๐
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Got a Traveler's Factory Notebook ๐
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Obsessed with Stumptown Coffee, Kyoto โ๏ธ
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Took part in Colive Kyoto
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Tried a Japanese Onsen ๐
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Completed Next.js Learn App Router Tutorial
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Visited Ryลan-ji Zen Garden ๐ฏ
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Arch Pass to Tokyo ๐ (Kyoto - Kanazawa - Nagano - Karuizawa)
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Set up /places on my site
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Started Swifty Stack course