jsjoeio
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4 years ago Hey Bryan!
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jsjoeio
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4 years ago Hey Bryan!
jsjoeio
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4 years ago Woo!
Achievements
Here, I’ll share the goal followed by the related achievement of the month after the arrow.
Financial
(I'm not 100% sure if that's accurate, used a graph from my bank, but getting mixed results) I don't think I'm going to hit my target, sadly, but I am on track to hit ~$27K based how much I'm saving per month. If things go well, I may be able to hit at least $30K, which is pretty close!
I've been saving a lot lately because I'm hoping to buy my wife and I a house within the next year or two.
Intellectual
A friend randomly recommended this book and it was SO good! I felt immediately inspired to start my own project. If you haven't heard of Scott Young, I recommend you check out the MIT Challenge. He passed all the classes for MIT's computer science degree program in one year -- all online! Very inspiring.
Overall, I've read 12/15 books this year. 3 to go to hit my goal!
Inspired by the Ultralearning book, I've decided to set up my own project for the next three months. It's a bit of a mix between a personal and professional project. Fortunately, my company gives us 8hrs/week of "investment" time. This can be used for learning in any way that might benefit you and, hopefully the company.
We use TypeScript at work so I thought to find an ultralearning project where I could "double-dip" by using my time at work towards it.
You can see a bit more about it here: Ultralearning Project - TypeScript
In addition, I've decided to join a coworker who's doing #100DaysOfCode by doing #100DaysOfTypeScript 😄 You can follow along on Twitter
Professional
I finally taught my workshop and it was a success! 😄 We sold ~22 tickets. 13 people showed up the day of. One person did have a negative experience (due to some issues getting things setup) but other than that, the feedback was great!
I'm taking all the content from my workshop and putting it into a course on egghead. The course should be done (from my side) this weekend and then hopefully we'll get it out this month so keep your eyes peeled 👀
This has been quite the journey from when I had the initial idea about the course. I'm glad it's finally near the finish line. I hope it will help people feel less intimidated about custom hooks & open-sourcing React packages! 🤞
That's all folks! Until next month!