Two creatures live in me: the hereditary nocturnal and the early-bird-wannabe. They both continue to fight every day. Today the early bird won. I want it to continue winning.
Promised myself I'd start running again. But first coffee, then...
> Run 2 km > Cold shower > Cook a big breakfast > Enjoy the 4B's: Breakfast + Brew + Book + Bossa NovaÂ
Expectation: Run 3x a week. Reality: Run once every two months 🙈
Bratwurst, zucchini, mushrooms, beans, egg
Felt good to start the day with a run. Breakfast tasted especially good because I was HUNGRY.
Started work later than I'd like. But tomorrow I'll improve.
Today was a rare 10/10 day where I crossed out everything on my to-do list.
✓ Some client work for $u$tenance.
✓ Spent too much time on my CS50 Week 0 assignment. I'm obsessing over every detail. But I've decided to indulge myself. Not going to rush it like I did the first time around; so I can learn properly.
✓ Set up Automator to auto-resize photos for this blog. \o/
✓ Debugged "missing avatars" on a Rails project. Took hours of my life.
What did I learn today? Web dev is hard! There are still so many things I don't understand. I don't know if I'll ever be "good enough", and it makes me anxious. *impostor syndrome looms*
But I think... with a bit of focus, and a lot of tenacity, we'll make things happen. We always have, haven't we? I don't think this is any different from other things I've done in the past.
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.
