Hi friends!

Greetings from Alicante.

This is our first report from the expedition, and I’m psyched to get on with you in this new and exciting adventure.

Last week I finally started working in public. This is something I have been struggling with for a long time.

I’ve been too focused on working inwards, learning, reflecting, and building stuff…but hardly ever sharing. I think it’s high time to turn my attention to the outer side of the equation.

In this vein, I managed to consistently publish on Twitter every day.

Also, I submitted an article to “Start it Up,” the Medium publication. Titled «Escaping the Microservices Wormhole – Why a Distributed App Can Quietly Break Your Business When You’re Starting Up,» it was an essay I wrote by the end of last year but never published. I got stuck into other stuff and never managed to do it. Hopefully, now will be the time for it —better late than never, right?

And to top it all, today I’m launching this newsletter! 🥳🥳🥳

Public-facing matters apart, I also re-adjusted the scope for my email course on product engineering for indie tech-creators. Now, with a narrowed-down scope, I’m considering whether to keep pushing this project further or apply the circuit breaker for now and shift my attention to something else.

Definitely, the last week’s been a giant leap to be proud of.

Now, turning our sight towards the future, this week I’ll be keeping up with sharing and engaging in communities. My main goal is to stay consistent to get used to it and what it takes. As I keep learning, I’ll also try to optimize and free up as much time as possible for other stuff.

If nothing happens, I’ll publish the article I submitted, either in «Start it Up« —if it gets accepted— or in any other place.

And finally, I’ll refine my note-taking system. It’s an essential part of my system for doing creative work, but lately, it’s gotten a bit chaotic.

Coolest things I learned.

You don’t need as much to start sharing your work.

Things I’m thinking about.

Problems need to be concrete.

When will it be ready?

Gems I found.

The Embedded Entrepreneur.

Reading better.

Function and Scale

Brilliant quotes.

Knowledge without reflection is useless. Reflection without knowledge is dangerous.

Confucius

If you study something but don’t reflect on it, your effort will be for nothing. But if you reflect without the proper foundational knowledge, things can get worse.

You’ll likely get drawn to wrong, dangerous conclusions, take them as facts, and get on a path that can ultimately make things worse for yourself and your environment.

To make positive progress, you need both. Always be studying, and always be reflecting.

And, of course, don’t take your conclusions as facts before you can possibly know. No matter our knowledge level, when we reflect, we tend to think we know enough to form an opinion —you can call it arrogance. Instead, be constantly aware of your own ignorance.

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