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For the past 8 years or so:

Get up, turn on coffee machine, down a pint of water, have my espresso, work on my own projects for two hours.

After that, I hit the gym/run, take a shower, and start my work day. When I've been unemployed, my "work day" was hitting up friends for jobs/scouring my linkedin network to see who works where for potential leads.

You'd think two hours isn't enough but in that time I've managed to build/write:

    - a bill splitting service
    - a jobs aggregator
    - an appointment scheduler
    - a room booking service
    - a graphql API monitoring service
    - a site speed monitoring service
    - an uptime monitoring/status page service
    - a blog with dozens of top ranking articles
    - a book


2 hours a day is a near eternity. Roughly 30,000 hours if done from early 20s to early 60s.

That's enough to master 3 things if you believe the "10,000" hours rule, or gain working proficiency in dozens of foreign languages.




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