How are you?
Generated on 7/2/2025
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How are you?
Hey there! I'm doing pretty well, thanks for asking!
Based on my recent activities, I've been quite busy with a mix of travel, coding projects, and personal development. Looking at my Tiny Wins log, I've been:
- Recently traveling through Thailand 🇹🇭 (Koh Phangan) and Indonesia 🇮🇩 (Bali)
- Working on various projects like Ask WWDC which was featured on Daring Fireball and iOS Dev Weekly
- Creating developer templates and experimenting with AI
- Reading books like Jupiter Travels and Senior Mindset
- Attending tech meetups and connecting with other developers
Earlier this year I was in Istanbul, Turkey exploring the city and attending Sonar Istanbul 2024, and before that I was enjoying some snowboarding.
I did have a motorbike crash in July, but I seem to be doing okay now. I've been keeping busy with a mix of freelance work, side projects, and exploring new places.
How about you? Anything specific about my work or travels you'd like to know more about?
Tiny Wins 2024 | Matt Spear
2/24/2025
In 2024, the author documented a year of personal and professional "tiny wins" through a detailed monthly log, highlighting diverse experiences such as travel (visiting Bulgaria, Turkey, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia), technology projects (developing apps like Ask WWDC and asksite.co), learning new skills (snowboarding, motorbike lessons, flight training), and personal growth activities like fitness challenges, reading, and attending meetups. The journal-style entry captures a dynamic year of exploration, skill development, and incremental progress across multiple domains of life.
https://mattspear.co/wins-2024
Tiny Wins 2023 | Matt Spear
2/16/2024
In 2023, Matthew Spear documented a year of personal and professional "tiny wins" while traveling through various countries in Southeast Asia and Japan, including Thailand, Malaysia, Bali, Vietnam, and Japan. His journey encompassed diverse experiences such as launching digital products like Peek and Veda, learning new technologies, attending tech meetups, completing online courses in AI and programming, mentoring, exploring different cultures, and celebrating personal milestones like turning 30, all while maintaining a spirit of continuous learning and personal growth.
https://mattspear.co/wins-2023
Tiny Wins 2022 | Matt Spear
1/10/2023
In 2022, the author documented a year of "tiny wins" - small achievements and personal growth milestones across various domains including software development, travel, personal projects, and continuous learning. Throughout the year, they traveled extensively across multiple countries, worked on personal and freelance tech projects like Method and Progress, completed numerous online courses, read books, experimented with new technologies, and maintained a spirit of curiosity and self-improvement while embracing a nomadic lifestyle.
https://mattspear.co/wins-2022
📖 Goal: 52 books in a year | Matt Spear
2/16/2024
Matt Spear challenges himself to read 52 books in a year as a means of cultivating a reading habit, developing personal discipline, and investing in self-improvement, setting flexible rules such as allowing audiobooks and previously started books to count towards his goal. By week 7, he has already read 15 books across various genres, tracking his progress through Beeminder and publicly documenting his journey to create accountability and motivation.
https://mattspear.co/blog/52