MegaMaker - My 2024 year in review

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Happy New Year! Today, I'm finally sending you my annual review. (A little later than I'd hoped!)

For over a decade now (eleven years!), I've been writing these annual reviews. Each one captures a snapshot of my journey – the wins, the struggles, and everything in between.

πŸ‘‰ Read my 2024 year in review​

This year, I'm trying to ask myself this question more often:

"Is this thing you’re doing in service of the life you want to live?"

In the full post, you can read about what a "good life" means to me personally, plus:

  • What we accomplished at Transistor (my main company) this year.
  • Contemplations I've been having lately about the "seasons of life."
  • Some other personal news.

I hope you have an incredible 2024!

Cheers,
Justin Jackson
​@mijustin​

PS: this year, I'm starting a new podcast with Brian Casel called The Panel. In every episode, we invite smart friends to discuss (and debate) the realities of building a business and career in tech. We want to make it a "can't miss show" – we'd appreciate it if you signed up for our list!

We just released the trailer episode here:

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What's happening with founders over 40?

Thursday, December 19, 2024

Hey, ​ I recently listened to three podcast episodes, all with bootstrapped founders over the age of 40: ​Paul Jarvis has retired from Fathom Analytics​ ​Matt Wensing steps down from Summit, takes job

Follow-up: is 40+ too old?

Thursday, December 19, 2024

Hey, ​ I didn't expect the last newsletter to generate so much debate! It ended up getting posted to Hacker News. Aaron and Ian talked about it on Mostly Technical, and many other folks responded

Where are these signups coming from?

Thursday, November 28, 2024

Howdy, ​ Every day in Transistor's #marketing channel in Slack, we track our new trial signups: ​ Like most SaaS companies, our growth relies on new people finding us every day. Whenever I see

I'm blue

Saturday, November 23, 2024

Hey, ​ ​ tl;dr – I've decided to delete all my Twitter posts, lock down my account, and leave the platform. And I'm going all-in on Bluesky, which (in the last month) has become 1000x more fun

Today's the day

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Hey friends, ​ Remember that summer project that Ferdinand and I have been working on? Today's the day we officially launch it on Product Hunt. Please help us out! Your votes and comments are

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