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Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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I want to read more books and start getting my financial life in order. I've been lucky enough to get a raise only a few months after getting my most recent job and it's afforded me a little more money each month to play around with. I'd like to start investing a little bit as well as build up an emergency fund.

Additionally, I'm lucky enough to still have a few online lecture recordings available from the classes I took for my master's degree. At the time I was more focused on just passing owing to being so demotivated from the pandemic that I barely absorbed anything. It's been a real regret of mine and especially now that this knowledge can actually be applied (enterprise software design, microservices etc.) I want to take the time to actually give a damn and learn something by re-watching these lectures and taking good notes.

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I'm thinking of resigning first thing. I took the Christmas break to mull it over and came to the conclusion that I'm not happy where I am anymore, even if it is comfortable and decent money. Once I'm settled into a new job I'm hoping to get on to the property ladder so I can have my own space. I'd also like to get a bit fitter so if I can find the courage I'll try going to the gym. In the meantime I'll continue with…

Turned in my notice yesterday! It was such a weight off my shoulders once I realized it's what I wanted to do. Good luck to you.

We're hiring: https://www.recurrency.com :)

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1. Work on https://ayahbyayah.com - managed to get an update out this week, next year will be 10 years on the App Store. 2. Get 500 hours on the bike, this year I managed 358 hours and 6000 miles. 3. Continue my Qur'an memorisation journey.

These goals seem to me like progress towards a life well-lived. Good luck!

Thank you so much, really appreciate the kind words.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you share more about other things you have made and sold?

Most were a while ago (hence the complacent part), but I made a hosting panel (those were popular little over 10 years ago) and sold that (made well over 100k$ in a few months), hosting company hosting millions of sites/apps, a proprietary CMS company, a company that sold games related stuff, a dating site, a PoS system+hardware and a bunch more things. They were all side projects at the time besides the CMS company…

How did you know you should build these and who were your customers

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Building on the success of my podcast, This Sustainable Life, where I've led globally renowned people (you'll know many: https://joshuaspodek.com/leadership-and-the-environment-top-... ) 1. Keep building the podcast 2. Publish my next book, on sustainability leadership (in conversations with big publishers already) 3. Continue my mission: to help change American (and global) culture on sustainability and stewardship…

How do people do something like write a cohesive book
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