What did I do in 2024?
Generated on 2/25/2025
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Matt Spear's 2024 Summary
Based on your "Tiny Wins" tracking, 2024 was quite an adventurous year for you! Here's a summary of what you did:
Travel & Adventures
You traveled extensively across multiple countries:
- Started the year in Bansko, Bulgaria 🇧🇬 where you went snowboarding for the first time
- Visited Istanbul, Turkey 🇹🇷 (explored Grand Bazaar, Spice Market, Blue Mosque)
- Traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark 🇩🇰 and Malmö, Sweden 🇸🇪
- Spent time in Bangkok, Thailand 🇹🇭
- Explored Bali, Indonesia 🇮🇩 (did a clockwise motorbike trip around the island)
- Visited Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 🇲🇾
- Returned to London for Christmas 🎄
Professional Development
- Worked on asksite.co (landing page, admin panel, YouTube import)
- Built several small apps (Arc tab count menubar app, sleep debt app)
- Your Ask WWDC was featured in iOS Dev Weekly
- Updated your WWDC Tracker
- Completed a TypeScript Testing Course
- Worked on freelance projects
- Created a drizzle-graphql template
Learning & Skills
- Took a discovery flight lesson ✈️
- Completed your Motorbike CBT course 🏍️
- Experimented with Readwise
- Completed a Prompt Engineering for LLMs course
- Worked on an AR project
- Revisited Obsidian for note-taking
Health & Fitness
- Started running again (7km + 5km)
- Fell in love with Power + Revive fitness
- Participated in Futureland fitness challenge (16 hours)
- Took up boxing at P+R 🥊
- Got an Apple Watch Series 10 ⌚
Reading & Personal Growth
- Rebooted your Beeminder Reading Goal
- Finished reading books like "Steal like an Artist" and "Jupiter Travels"
- Watched educational content like "Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union"
- Attended the Bali Gumroad Event (met Sahil and team)
Your year was filled with travel, learning new skills, building projects, and staying active - quite the productive and adventurous 2024!
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
Tiny Wins 2021 | Matt Spear
11/10/2022
The article discusses the concept of "Tiny Wins" as small achievements that help build momentum and celebrate personal progress, showcasing the author's personal accomplishments in December 2021, which include traveling to Portugal, maintaining a 100-day standup streak, completing online courses in SaaS and Nx, and listening to a podcast episode.
https://mattspear.co/wins-2021