Tiny Wins 2023

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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Back to wins from this year

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
• Watched 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
• Went 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 🇸🇬☔️🏙️
• Watched 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
• Watched Catching up on the weird world of LLMs
• Watched Race to Dakar (Charley Boorman) 🐪
• Saw the lanterns in Hoi An 🏮

September

• Arrived in Chiang Mai, Thailand 🇹🇭🍛🔥
• Listen to Senior Mindset Audiobook
• Passed and received my Thai bike license @ Honda 🏍️🪪
• 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 🏔️🐐
• 🚢 2 mentees strong on MentorCruise
• Redesign of Veda
• Arrive in Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵🍜🍂
• 🚅 Rode the Shinkansen
• Sushi conveyor belt 🍣
• Turned 30 🎉

November

• Arrive back in Kyoto 🇯🇵⛩️🍁

• Got a Traveler's Factory Notebook 📓

• Obsessed with Stumptown Coffee, Kyoto ☕️

• Took part in Colive Kyoto

• Tried a Japanese Onsen 🛀

• Completed Next.js Learn App Router Tutorial

• Visited Ryōan-ji Zen Garden 🏯

• Arch Pass to Tokyo 🚅 (Kyoto - Kanazawa - Nagano - Karuizawa)

• Set up /places on my site

• Started Swifty Stack course

December

• Visited Seoul, South Korea 🇰🇷🍜🍚
• Watched AI Engineering 101 workshops
• Shared AI Resources Tweet
• Back home in London for Christmas 🎄
• Switched back to Arc Browser
• Finished Core Data Mastery