2018 By The Numbers

Being productive in 2018 was again a challenge. If you produced nothing, but managed to survive: good for you!

Here's a summary of things I shipped. Numbers in parens, e.g. "(3,2)", are the figures from last year and the year before.

• 1 book published, Choose Your First Product (1,0) (available as a PDF, Epub, a kindle book, a physical book, and at the kobo store)
• 1 new version of NimbleText released (1,3)
• 10 Blog posts written (13, 17)
• 14 new wiki articles completed (10,50)
• 19 Weekly Project Update emails shared with Richard Mason of Aussie Bushwalking (0)
• Modest amount of work completed on Evergreen Skills for Software Developers but much kudos to Joseph Cooney who worked very hard on this forthcoming book.
• Big shout out to Doeke Zanstra (see also) for his excellent work on ok-bash.
• 1 project I forgot to tell you about: Robots versus Electric Sheep
• ~200 pictures at insta/secretGeek
• 73 Today-I-Learned Entries written (133, 233) — 117163 words (35289, 42352), 10 new topics (21, 44)
• 156 contributions at Github/secretGeek (189, 292)
• 2 new articles written for "Your First Product" (6,17)
• 1 blog post published to medium (2, 0)
• 0 talks delivered (1,1) phew.
• 2 (really minor) pull requests successfully submitted to open source software (1,3)
• 1 pair of driving glasses acquired (0,0)
• 2 production websites moved from Windows to Linux (2,3)
• 200+ days in a row I met my daily step goal (previous best streak 117, also this year, prior years' best was 73 days. At this point i just use it to track the duration between sickness/injury.)
• 1000s of tweets screamed into the void.

The tweets that travelled the furthest were both about Evergreen Skills

You want to stay relevant for the next 10 years?

These are 3 major things you should focus on:

- the binary language of moisture vaporators
- going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters
- traveling through hyperspace which ain't like dusting crops, farm boy https://t.co/8Y5aXq6eGY

— Leon Bambrick (@secretGeek) November 19, 2018

Imagine two teams are competing to see who can build the tallest skyscraper. The second team can use any material they want. The first team gets a 20 year headstart but can only use bananas. How long does team 2 take to catch up? (Teams are called javascript and webassembly)

— Leon Bambrick (@secretGeek) November 30, 2018

Well, let's see what 2019 is all about.

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My book "Choose Your First Product" is available now.

It gives you 4 easy steps to find and validate a humble product idea.

Learn more.