You’ve probably heard this many times. But I want this post to be a reminder for you (and myself) to celebrate small wins.
We are now in a fast moving world, especially with AI. AI was supposed to save us time. Instead we spend more time talking to agents and building stuff that are not useful in most cases.
And in this fast pace, we need to slow the fuck down and celebrate small wins.
I had a small win on Friday. I built Blogosphere a couple of weeks back. I added a minimal version in the last few days.
I submitted it to HackerNews expecting it to fade away into the oblivion. Within just a few minutes, people started voting, and by around the 15 minute mark, it was already on the frontpage of Hacker News.
At the hour mark, it hit #1 on HackerNews and stayed there for more than 7 hours, only temporarily pushed to #3 once.
It sent a ton of visitors to the site and lot of great feedback and emails. It reached over 700 votes.
This is huge for me considering I don’t have a network or know anyone who can give the post an initial push on HN. So I decided to celebrate the win.
I went to Crossword (a local bookstore) and bought two books that were selling for half the price. These are books I would never have found if I’m just buying from Amazon. That’s one of the reasons I love visiting the local bookstore.
I can’t wait to slow the fuck down, stop building for a few days, and read these books until I get a really good idea that I cannot wait to start working on.