2024
​Necessary Pain

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But first,

A word from our (first ever) sponsor, Tim Ferriss:​
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To recap this year in the style of Tim Ferriss,

Here are 5-bullets to sum up 2024 for me.

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Social Media

LinkedIn was a drug.

I lived and breathed that social platform.

I was too dependent on it.

One source of traffic.

One (personal) brand.

One boxed identity.

That meant,

If I win, I win big; If I lose, I lose hard.

When I lost my account,

I lost everything...

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But I learned.

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- I learned to disappear for a while

- I learned to sit and write

- I learned to disconnect (from fast dopamine)

- I learned to read, and make time to read

- I learned to value what I have

- I learned to tame my brain

- I learned to nurture the few people who stuck around

I Learned digital resilience

(Which will be a topic for another day)

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Friendship

I had more time to make real friends.

Real people with no hidden intentions.

No hidden agendas.

Just real brotherhood all around.

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It's hard to do that on the internet, you know.

So maybe it's time for you too to get out there and start meeting real people!

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Religion

I connected deeply to my root cause of existence:

To be a servant of Allah.

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Call it “purpose” if you will.

But this drives everything else.

I have developed a strong faith with the one above.

And now all my decisions are up and center around that.

It's my guiding compass.

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Hope you can find yours!

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Family

Always a work in progress.

The older I get, the stronger the bond I have with my mom.

She's the only family I have.

No one else matters.

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It's not perfect, by all means.

Just 5 mins ago, we had a fight around something silly:

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I guess you wanna know,

She took my branded clothes that I use as decoration and motivation for my room (yeah the one I work in, the one I'm writing this on) to wash them without asking permission.

And now she ruined one of the T-shirts, and she's acting all bossy as if It's not her fault.

Figured? Lol

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Toxic dynamic sometimes.

But I think that's how it's supposed to work.

The people you love the most are the ones you end up fighting the most? Right?

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Business

A constant war with one's self.

This year, I lost a lot of battles.

I had to take a break on “momentum”.

I had to shift the way I think about work.

I had to draw boundaries to live the life I want.

That meant,

I had to redesign my business to fit my lifestyle:

• 4h work days
• Few clients
• No management/boss
• Comfortable in unexpectedness
• No chance for burnout

From these rules of constraint,

I started drawing how the business should be.

Onward!

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Till next time,

Your friend ~

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Words That Matter for Misfits Who Care