idk why but I always need a stay-at-home holiday after an overseas holiday. Are you like that, too? Took me 6 days this time, and I still haven't fully unpacked. But I am rested and ready to get back to work.
Today I worked on the Users schema and mutations in AI Ad Kit. Also learnt how to use Clerk's webhook and tie it to the webhook in Convex. Convex is amazing for building a live-updating web app with a document database. I've never experienced anything like it.
I haven't recovered well enough to run, so I did a 40-minute walk while listening to Darknet Diaries, my favourite podcast in the world. This says a lot because I am not a podcast person at all.
My WHOOP age shows me as 47.9 (a whole 1.3 years older than actual age >_<). The goal is to get it down to 31. Very ambitious yes. But you know, shoot for the moon, etc etc. All I need to do is walk more, and sleep more. Easy peasy, right?
I have a degree in Marketing Management from University of Otago, New Zealand. I ran a successful restaurant for 13 years in Singapore, a brutally competitive market for F&B. I also ran a bakery for 7 of those years. I sold both businesses for 6 figures in 2019.
Then I taught myself to code, and have been working in software since. In 2021, I was hired as General Manager for a restaurant software startup, where I helped market and grow the app to $400k/year revenue.
On the side, I started building my own small projects, aimed at near-passive income. So began a 10,000-hour-long experiment to see if I can make $10k/month by "f*cking around and finding out". This blog is a daily record of the real hours spent & dollars earned.
