Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

For a break from some of the more negative content recently, let's hear what you have succeeded at.

This year I finally found a flexible and comfortable job. I work only 25 hours per week (more or less). The income does not make me super rich (like FAANG engineers) but I live comfortably with the money.

I consider this situation as my recent success because I have a lot of time to work on other things (research, moonshot projects, online businesses).

I just published a book about blockchain this year. Last week I released an opensource blockchain project. Later I want to build an online educational business (something like pyimagesearch.com, egghead.io) but this time it is not about blockchain anymore. :)

In the future (maybe 2 years later) I want to do some research on drone.

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Professionally, I won a poster award at a conference, mostly for my slick R ggplot visualizations analyzing delirium in elderly hospitalized patients. I've never won an award for my research or coding, so that was a joyful moment. Especially, given that 2 months earlier, I was crying under my desk on my 30th birthday due to work pressures and feeling totally lost trying to build huge datasets with SQL as a beginner.

Personally, I was asked to join two different folk bands, playing piano and singing. To any classically trained musicians, I'd recommend trying folk, there are great opportunities for your trained technical skills and playing with others (rather than solo) has been very uplifting to my musical happiness.

I’m trying to do 30 yoga classes this month. It’s not a success yet but I’m on track to hit the target.

I set this one month fitness goal because I thought it would be immediately achievable and healthy.

Hit 500 Instagram followers on a blog I manage tech & marketing for. Started last year. Aiming for 1000 by EOY.