Retrospectives
- October 7, 2025Refactoring English: Month 10
Instead of swinging for the fences, what if I bunt?
- September 9, 2025Refactoring English: Month 9
The joy and misery of editing a video interview
- August 13, 2025Refactoring English: Month 8
Perhaps not everyone wants to join my focus group.
- July 11, 2025Refactoring English: Month 7
Juggling too many half-finished tasks.
- June 4, 2025Refactoring English: Month 6
I just need to focus for one hour per day.
- May 8, 2025Refactoring English: Month 5
How do I stop myself from rewriting the same chapter fifty times?
- April 9, 2025Refactoring English: Month 4
I'm officially writing a book!
- March 12, 2025Refactoring English: Month 3
My first time raising money on Kickstarter
- February 10, 2025Refactoring English: Month 2
Should I be writing a book during an AI revolution?
- January 9, 2025Refactoring English: Month 1
I've published my first book chapter.
- December 6, 2024Paternity Leave: Month 4
I need to stop procrastinating.
- November 19, 2024Paternity Leave: Month 3
Easing back into work.
- October 15, 2024Paternity Leave: Month 2
Not working is harder than I expected.
- September 11, 2024Paternity Leave: Month 1
I have a son!
- August 7, 2024Educational Products: Month 2
Improving my video recording workflow
- July 11, 2024Educational Products: Month 1
I'm coming back to my blogging course.
- June 30, 2024Reset Month
No retrospective this month.
- May 31, 2024Reset Month
I'm skipping the retrospective this month.
- April 11, 2024TinyPilot: Month 45
Thinking critically about deployments.
- March 19, 2024TinyPilot: Month 44
Eliminating myself from the critical path on releases
- February 20, 2024TinyPilot: Month 43
I accidentally hoarded TinyPilot's release process.
- January 9, 2024TinyPilot: Month 42
How can I delegate more?
- December 13, 2023TinyPilot: Month 41
One-day shipping: how hard could it be?
- November 7, 2023TinyPilot: Month 40
The surprising difficulty of flashing microSDs
- October 17, 2023TinyPilot: Month 39
Working around manufacturing delays
- September 21, 2023TinyPilot: Month 38
Am I making the right investments in software?
- August 15, 2023TinyPilot: Month 37
How can TinyPilot increase recurring revenue?
- July 13, 2023TinyPilot: Month 36
Where is my time going? (2023 edition)
- June 13, 2023TinyPilot: Month 35
How do I come up with $250k in cash?
- May 11, 2023TinyPilot: Month 34
Getting out of "urgent mode"
- April 6, 2023TinyPilot: Month 33
The slow transition to third-party fulfillment
- March 9, 2023TinyPilot: Month 32
My longest vacation from TinyPilot
- February 17, 2023TinyPilot: Month 31
Some transitions are smoother than others.
- January 10, 2023TinyPilot: Month 30
Handling an eight-month supply shortage
- December 14, 2022TinyPilot: Month 29
Worry when long-term tasks stop.
- November 15, 2022TinyPilot: Month 28
Scrambling to meet demand
- October 17, 2022TinyPilot: Month 27
What would a fully remote TinyPilot look like?
- September 14, 2022TinyPilot: Month 26
The surprising difficulty of hiring.
- August 5, 2022TinyPilot: Month 25
Are blog posts worthwhile, even when they succeed?
- July 6, 2022TinyPilot: Month 24
How can I keep TinyPilot sales sustainable?
- June 8, 2022TinyPilot: Month 23
The eight-month redesign is finally complete!
- May 12, 2022TinyPilot: Month 22
Where is all of my money going?
- April 6, 2022TinyPilot: Month 21
Should I build more or optimize what I have?
- March 8, 2022TinyPilot: Month 20
Hiring TinyPilot's first support engineer
- February 9, 2022TinyPilot: Month 19
How can I manage TinyPilot on 20 hours per week?
- January 6, 2022TinyPilot: Month 18
The launch of TinyPilot Voyager 2
- December 6, 2021TinyPilot: Month 17
How removing a single link generated a 62% sales increase
- November 11, 2021TinyPilot: Month 16
The TinyPilot Cloud flop
- October 7, 2021TinyPilot: Month 15
What to do when a competitor raises $800k overnight?
- September 8, 2021TinyPilot: Month 14
Returning focus to the bottom line.
- August 5, 2021TinyPilot: Month 13
A month of delegation.
- July 8, 2021TinyPilot: Month 12
I'm feeling stuck and scrambling for more time.
- June 3, 2021TinyPilot: Month 11
How do I increase TinyPilot's profit margins?
- May 11, 2021TinyPilot: Month 10
TinyPilot gets its first real office.
- April 5, 2021TinyPilot: Month 9
Using the sales lull to optimize processes.
- March 3, 2021TinyPilot: Month 8
My growth streak had to end somewhere.
- February 4, 2021TinyPilot: Month 7
TinyPilot is facing good problems to have.
- January 5, 2021TinyPilot: Month 6
I generated record sales by accident.
- December 2, 2020TinyPilot: Month 5
Launching a new product and my very first course.
- November 3, 2020TinyPilot: Month 4
My first $10k month.
- October 6, 2020TinyPilot: Month 3
Racing to manufacture a physical product from scratch.
- September 2, 2020TinyPilot: Month 2
TinyPilot threw me a huge curveball, but things continue moving forward.
- August 5, 2020TinyPilot: Month 1
I finally created a business that gained traction immediately.
- July 2, 2020Is It Keto: Month 13
My new product is building momentum just as I'm losing motivation on the old one.
- June 1, 2020Is It Keto: Month 12
50k monthly visitors is more valuable than I'm giving it credit for.
- May 3, 2020Is It Keto: Month 11
Can I remix my original content to create 1000x as many pages?
- April 2, 2020An Unexpected Reset Month
I'm safe and healthy, but my businesses have taken a tumble.
- March 3, 2020WanderJest: Month 2
I never thought it would be so difficult to give away free money.
- February 5, 2020WanderJest: Month 1
Still searching for my first dollar of revenue, but it feels like it's within grasp.
- January 6, 2020Pursuing a Business I'll Love
Two of my businesses had record-setting months, and I'm finally building the app I've always wanted.
- December 5, 2019I'm Probably Procrastinating
I need to spend more time talking to customers.
- November 8, 2019Is It Keto - Month 10
Quickly made my first sale, then struggled to make more.
- October 31, 2019Notes from PyGotham 2019
My notes and self-critiques from speaking at PyGotham.
- October 5, 2019Is It Keto - Month 9
I'm ready to take bigger bets.
- September 6, 2019Is It Keto - Month 8
Perhaps I should pay more attention to my only successful project.
- August 2, 2019What Got Done - Month 3
Ending the What Got Done experiment.
- July 3, 2019What Got Done - Month 2
The conversation should be about thousands of dollars not, tens of dollars.
- June 7, 2019What Got Done - Month 1
While figuring out my next project, I launched a different product.
- May 8, 2019Recovery Month
How I doubled revenues by doing absolutely nothing.
- April 18, 2019Notes from PyTexas 2019
My notes and self-critiques from speaking at PyTexas.
- April 3, 2019Is It Keto: Month 7
A record month, but it's time to give up.
- March 5, 2019Is It Keto: Month 6
Do or die time
- February 6, 2019Is It Keto: Month 5
It's working, but not well enough
- January 5, 2019Is It Keto: Month 4
My first dollar of revenue
- December 2, 2018Is It Keto: Month 3
Returning to a site that grew without me
- August 8, 2018Zestful: Month 5
Launched, but still no customers
- July 2, 2018Zestful: Month 4
Shipping too late
- December 3, 2017KetoHub: Month 2
This was before I came up with taglines for each retrospective.