Tiny 2025 recap and a few thoughts below.
Life:
- ✓Lost 7kg (86→79)
- ✓Saw JUSTICE live twice
- ✓Great times with friends and family
- ✓Played incredible games (like KDC 2)
- ✓Moved to a nicer apartment in Lisbon
- ✓More progress on anxiety with therapy
- ✓Fun trips like Lyon and Spain with @maridivi89
Typefully:
- ✓$2M ARR 🔥
- ✓Offsite in Berlin
- ✓Team grew to 5 amazing people
- ✓Tons of releases, including huge refactors
- ✓Vibe coded AI writing agent from scratch, now in beta
(Sim) Racing:
- ✓Built a pretty insane sim-racing rig
- ✓Consistent top 1% times on F1 game
- ✓4 race wins across two championships
- ✓Broke a rib while karting (not recommended)
- ✓First track day with my M2C in Estoril, and I'm hooked now
Onto 2026:
- ✦Ship amazing features, get to $3M+ ARR
- ✦Keep taking care of my mental health
- ✦First car mods and more track days
- ✦More sim-racing podiums and wins
- ✦Lose more fat, build more muscle
- ✦Write and journal more regularly
- ✦Play more amazing games
No anti-goals this time, just want to do more of what feels right for me.
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A few sparse thoughts:
Being present and taking things slowly has been a challenge this year.
I'm quite anxious/hyperactive by nature, but with AI and vibe coding, my brain never stops these days.
This makes me excited and sort of uneasy about the future.
But I know that with our small team we'll keep killing it with Typefully, and we're now vibe coding cool stuff every day that makes us faster and more efficient.
I'm astonished by how much we've been able to build and ship this year, this momentum is fantastic.
Sim-racing progress in 2025 has also been terrific.
Consistently doing top 1% times in all tracks now, while just a year ago that still felt like out of reach in some tracks.
And finally winning races!
I'm building the confidence I needed to compete at a relatively high level, but still a long way to go to make fewer mistakes and improve my qualifying performance — which is my main weakness now, because of tension and anxiety.
But when I'm looking for that extra hundredth of a second, I really know I'm pushing my physical and mental boundaries, and that's why I'm addicted.
I'll surely keep embracing AI in 2026.
The summary up top is AI generated, and heavily edited of course, and that's fine. I think it's incredibly cool that an LLM can go through my notes and journal and help me make sense of an entire year in a few minutes.
I'll also challenge myself to keep using my brain, I'm wary of the real danger of AI making us intellectually lazier. It's happening already.
Writing these thoughts myself is feeling like an ancient craft I'm rediscovering, because in truth, I haven't been writing a ton this year (besides the many many tweets).
I have an optimistic inclination even if sometimes I become a bit of a doomer (I frequently change my mind anyway), but I'm definitely pumped for the year to come.
Forgive me but you'll have to endure more sim/racing content too. That world feels like a healthy escape from tech and I'm getting more passionate about it every day.
For those who have been following my journey so far: thank you for sticking around ✌️
