DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Issue #102 - Planning time
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Welcome to the 102nd edition
Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩
Happy new year, everyone! 🎉
2022 has been a blast. Now it's time to enjoy 2023, set ambitious goals for ourselves, and make moves towards success/happiness. I wish you all the best for this brand-new year! 🚀
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Alright, let's gooooo 🚀
Goals for 2023: First pass 🧪
This year, I've decided to avoid setting goals for the whole year, and rather focus on the first semester. I do have plans for the rest of the year and for the coming years, but I need to focus my attention and energy on short-term goals.

Around my media business, I mainly want to grow this newsletter, and gain more paid subscribers. I'm also looking for sponsors. Next to that, I want to grow my YouTube channel (finally!) and publish videos more regularly (~3 per month for now). We'll see how that goes. To help me publish more regularly, I want to continue working on the Obsidian Publisher plugin for Obsidian. Aside from that, I will work on an Obsidian course to complement my Obsidian Starter Kit. I will also work on a Personal Organization Starter Kit. By the way, my latest article is closely related to that initiative (see below). Finally, I will continue writing articles about Personal Knowledge Management and will dedicate more time to my "Curious Minds" private community.
This year, I will also resume working on SaaS products. I really miss product and software development. More about this soon! My humble goal is to reach 1K MRR during the first half of the year 🚀
Learning and knowledge wise, I intend to keep my reading habits and get better at video editing and design.
I will continue working ~1 day per week as a freelance software/solution architect and will also continue working half-time as an employee.
And that's about it for now! Now it's time to get the ball rolling!
New articles

Quotes of the week
- "You become unstoppable when you realize that you can do it alone"
- "None of us chooses how we start this life, but we have a big role in deciding how we finish"
Book of the week
How cool is that?!
Thinking and learning



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Want to become 2x faster🚀 at taking and editing notes?
— Ilya Shabanov (@Artifexx) December 18, 2022
After almost 20 years as a professional IT engineer - this is my one hack that will make the biggest difference.
Your 1 minute initiation into being a power user ⚡️.
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Indie Hacking and bootstrapping



Tech




About Sébastien
Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois. I'm an author, founder, and CTO. I write books and articles about software development & IT, personal knowledge management, personal organization, and productivity. I also craft lovely digital products 🚀
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