I’ve been out of my last job at Dell now over 15 months. A lot happened in those months. Since we’re only a month away from the end of the year I think I can put together a bit of a reflection here too. The main things that happened:

• Moved to Berlin.
• Lived in 3 different places due to the pain of getting a perminant place in Berlin.
• Decided that I didn’t want to work on ClubFlow full time.
• Did several months of German learning – can now speak at a B1 level and get by in most day to day situations.
• Played around on a project – thestoryof.io for a while but struggled to keep going without day to day accountability.
• Started working on a new project with my buddy Ian, 5 months in and we have a nice product and are about to do a Beta launch of it.
• Ran 80k in 48 hours.
• Visited family & friends multiple times In Ireland/France.
• Started a hiking group in Berlin to test several theories I have around social group creation, retention, etc etc. Over 50 people attended 1 or more of the hikes.
• Got my apartment in Dublin ready to rent out and found tenants for it.

Finances over the last 15 months have held steady mostly due to 2-3 decent investments, namely Tesla, Opendoor, Offerpad, and a small basket of different cryptocurrencies. Also, my current monthly expenses rarely go over 1-1.2k p/m so is easy to keep it all in check.

What I hope to work on/achieve in the next year would be:

• Get ScrapeOps.io used by over 1000 people and bringing in over 10k p/m.
• Stay fit/healthy.
• Improve my German level to a B2/C1 level
• Keep growing my hiking/social group and see if I can make it self sustaining using different techniques as well as expaning the remit to other activities.
• Grow my investment portfolio/crypto to over 75k – ideally I’d like to purchase another apartment/house in 2-3 years with 50-100k deposit.
• Keep RowingAdverts/Clubflow up to date and running smoothly.