I had brought with me (I forget when) from my childhood home, an old, warped carom board. I had grand plans to refurbish it into a gorgeous coffee table. The idea was simple. Fix the notches, glaze it with epoxy, and perhaps cover it with an acrylic pane. It has been with me for years, from my last rental home until now.
Not mine, image from internet.
As with many things, it's time I face up to the fact that this is one of those things I will never get around to. It was a good idea, but not one that I ever had (or will have) the resources for. I bid it goodbye and off to recycling it went.
The same applies to side projects and business ideas. If something's been in the "idea folder" for more than three years, chuck it. If it was something that truly excited you, you'd have gotten it started in a weekend.
I did have energy to clean these blinds, though. They haven't been cleaned since I installed them in 2018 🙂🙃
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.
