Basically what I’m focused on at this point in my life.
Inspired by https://nownownow.com/about
Last updated: November 2025
Well, so how have I been?
I’m deliberately moving from a 10-year corporate PM career toward creative independence - through writing, building products, and creating community. The focus is on freedom: control over my time, being useful to others, and building things that exist independent of me.
The big three:
- Writing the book (deadline: June 2026)
- Practicing more regular writing; Learning Substack with “EarlyNotes” - sharing thoughts on what I have seen working for me; Continuing to use my Hey blog and nextfive.xyz for my other personal writings.
- Planning to self-publish via KDP / Pothi by June 2026 (ideally after getting a validation of a possible audience)
- It’s become less about vanity and more about sharing ideas that genuinely helped me
- Guide app: a personal productivity system I built
- Just launched v29 with onboarding improvements
- Testing if people find value in it
- Learning to earn without a salary (my version of financial independence)
- Experimenting with different income streams
- Recently focused on identifying 5 concrete projects to commit 2 hours daily to, starting January 2026
- Less exploring, more shipping and selling
Why these three? Because I realized I have enough ideas. What I need now is to move from planning to doing, from building to shipping. Dialing down the exploration a notch and starting to focus on exploitation.
Also happening:
- Getting more and more comfortable driving: still working on this skill, especially on driving on hill roads and going for outstation trips
- Building community through the Public Living Room concept: connecting interesting people around ideas and projects
- Getting comfortable with public storytelling - considering TEDx talks and other speaking opportunities.
- Smaller passion projects like PictureThis orToolish; ThePhotos.org is getting less attention for now.