MegaMaker - My 2023 year in review
Happy New Year! Today, I'm sending you my annual review.
For the last ten years, I've been sharing my thoughts and reflections in a year-in-review post each year. As a collective, these reviews describe my entire bootstrapping journey, both the breakthroughs and the struggles.
👉 Read my 2023 year in review
Every year, I ask myself: "What am I optimizing my life for?" My current answer is:
In the full post, you can read about what a "good life" means to me personally, plus:
- A framework that's helped me think about how we work at Transistor (my main company).
- A question I've been thinking about for the last few years: what do you do after you've achieved your initial goal of "building a business that works?" What comes next?
- Some personal news.
| Read my full 2023 year in review |
I hope you have an incredible 2024!
Cheers,
Justin Jackson
@mijustin
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Please don't do this
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
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Don't ignore the Prosumer market
Friday, November 17, 2023
The normal advice for people building SaaS companies is "Don't build software for consumers (B2C); build it for businesses (B2B)."
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Saturday, September 30, 2023
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