...and what did you learn in the process
Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment of 2017?
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Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment of 2017?
#2Surviving it. I know that sounds dramatic, but it's the best I can do (I almost kicked the bucket in 2016).
I went through a lot of personal changes over the past 2 years, and I'm still too close to absorb it all.
If there is one lesson I did learn, it's that I really need to stop being a lone wolf. This isn't to say I don't have friends, but it's accepting that I'm only one person, and it's trying to understand who "my people" are, and that's hard to figure out when there are so many wild transitions in location, social, and financial positions.
I've made a lot of tough and firm decisions over the past several months, and it's up to me to hold myself responsible to those commitments. The toughest step will be acting on the knowledge that I can't do it all alone, balanced with the fact that I have to do 90% first, and hand off the final 10% to someone else. In an ideal world, it would be an even split.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment of 2017?
#3Accomplishment: Getting back into housing.
What I learned: The laid back, people friendly hippie culture for which California is famous didn't actually die. It just moved to the Pacific Northwest.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment of 2017?
#4Figured out a solid business plan and a proper direction after a key pivot. 2018 here we come!
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment of 2017?
#5I failed to get a remote job on one of those famous remote first oriented kind of startups/companies and realized how much difficult that market is. It's sexy and It would certainly advance me in terms of knowledge and on my carreer path.
Though, that failure led me to my current venture where I validated that I am able to stand as a senior developer in a small dev team(3-4 ppl) that builds a robust and maintainable SaaS product and sometimes lead it.
I'm not giving up the idea of the famous remote company but left it aside for now.
I've also been reminded how much difficult for me is to decide to leave my hometown(for various reasons). I have to get on that too at some point.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment of 2017?
#6I Increased my conscientiousness.
I feel like it moved a full standard deviation, but with no real way to measure it, no controls and no documentation it's all guesswork. Still, I can point to certain behavioral changes that haven't regressed in the last 6 months (and a couple surprising ones at that) when I made the change.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment of 2017?
#7Learning how to be more social.
It may sound simple, but I constantly avoided social situations because I was worried about being judged and people disliking me. I realized by not even trying I already made people's judgements for them about me.
People are actually pretty friendly when you take a genuine interest in them. This in turn helped me to go on more dates and meet a nice woman whom I've been seeing for a couple months.
Someone told me that everyone wants to be loved, everyone wants to be liked and everyone wants to feel appreciated. I really took this to heart when interacting with strangers.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment of 2017?
#8Accomplishment: Getting back into housing. What I learned: The laid back, people friendly hippie culture for which California is famous didn't actually die. It just moved to the Pacific Northwest.
Honestly I've always dreamed about moving to a place with friendly hippie culture, but Silicon Valley doesn't sound like it. Nice to hear that it still exists.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment of 2017?
#9Accomplishment: Getting back into housing. What I learned: The laid back, people friendly hippie culture for which California is famous didn't actually die. It just moved to the Pacific Northwest.
Honestly I've always dreamed about moving to a place with friendly hippie culture, but Silicon Valley doesn't sound like it. Nice to hear that it still exists.
I wasn't actually in Silicon Valley. I didn't really realize it was lacking until I left California and fell into the cozy lap of this culture elsewhere.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment of 2017?
#10I failed to get a remote job on one of those famous remote first oriented kind of startups/companies and realized how much difficult that market is. It's sexy and It would certainly advance me in terms of knowledge and on my carreer path. Though, that failure led me to my current venture where I validated that I am able to stand as a senior developer in a small dev team(3-4 ppl) that builds a robust and maintainable…
which saas product?