100 days ago I embarked on something new. I finished my contract . The timing wasn’t mine, it was down to the contract I was working on coming to an end, but the timing was in fact quite good. and I were trying to get our startup off the ground and I also had a bit of upcoming surgery ( ). and went full-time on our startup Mike see day 22 When I shifted from nights and weekends to a mixture of , nights and weekends, I decided to start a new habit, daily tweetlogging (or for short). days twogging It was for many reasons, accountability, reflection and hopefully insights for those that followed along. It was also shamelessly stolen from serial : maker Seth Louey Now, 100 days in, I thought it a good time to take a quick look back at how the first 100 days have gone and share what I’ve learnt so far. Cold emails + conversations 🗣 Days 1–7 ~ Initial build ⚒ Days 8–17 ~ Faro 🇵🇹 Days 18–20 ~ Surprise! 🎉 Day 21 ~ Surgery 😷 Days 22–27 ~ Recovery, slow progress + onboarding 📈 Days 28–36 ~ Email dev ✉️ Days 37–42 ~ Onboarding 👋 + bugs 🐜 Days 43–45 ~ Friends ❤️ Days 46–49 ~ France 🇫🇷 Days 50–52 ~ Back to work 💼 Days 53–58 ~ Day off 🔙🔜 Day 59 ~ London 🇬🇧❤️ Day 60 ~ Tick ’em off ✅ Days 61–65 ~ See Day 59 👀 Day 66 ~ Tick tick boom ✅ Days 67–72 ~ See Day 66 👀 Day 73 ~ Tickety boo ✅ Days 74–79 ~ See Day 73 👀 Day 80 ~ Step by step 👟 Days 81–86 ~ London 🇬🇧 + steak w/ friend 🍖 Day 87 ~ Stickin’ with the tickin’ ✅ Days 88–89 ~ Old friends 👥 Day 90 ~ A few more ticks ✅ Days 91–92 ~ Greece 🇬🇷 + wine 🍷 + a little work ✅ Days 93–100 ~ What I’ve learnt 🤔 Time flies ⏰💨 I look back over some of the things in my twogs and it feels like it was only last week, when it’s been over a month. Logging what I’m up to each day has helped me appreciate the scarcity of time and making the most of what I’ve got whilst I can. Similarly to how vlogging preserves a moment in time that can be revisited at any point in the future, twogging does in its own small sense. It’s a mini time capsule for future reminiscing. A friend of mine once told me that when you look back on life you won’t remember the mundane, routine day to day. You’ll remember the highlights and the memories made. I try to incorporate that into my life and remember to break out of the day to day work with experiences I’ll remember. I don’t know how long I have on this planet, so I want to make the most of it. People like reality 🤓 I wasn’t sure how popular the tweetlog would be, but so far it seems to be fairly well received. It won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, nothing of any interest is, but so far 63 folks have liked the kick off tweet and the rest seem to have gone down well. Since then has launched and . Mubashar tweetchains Benjamin Alijagić worked on something similar Share what you can 💁 I’ve learnt so much from the honesty and transparency of others far more successful than me, and the openness of the community is one of my favourite parts of tech. People share far more than they need to and as a result I feel I have a greater sense of intimacy with these folks. I love how , how and how and the Buffer team . AJ has been building Carrd in public Nathan shares about the bad times not just the good Joel share pretty much everything In my experience so far, being transparent has more to offer than it could take away. We’re not as radically committed to transparency as some, but we endeavour to share what we can. Life is not a snapshot 📸 If somehow things look like they were easy, always good or productive, it didn’t feel like that on the inside. There were some hard times, some great times and quite a lot of unproductive times. I’m still working to decrease the first and last and increase the middle. Please note, this is just my daily highlights, this is not fully representative of life. 🍻 Here’s to the next 100 I’m not sure what the next 100 days will entail, but from launching our first SaaS ( ) to some more travel, I’m excited to make the most of it. Feel free to . UserCompass follow along for the journey with me Enjoyed this post? Hit the little ❤ below to let your friends know ↓ Want more? I write small monthly emails with little blog posts in like this. Signup, if you’d like, it’s free. Or ✔ me on Twitter
