Hi everyone I am Fa,
I worked in tech until last month until I was made redundant due to strategical reorientatio (budget cuts).
This, for the first time afforded me the time to really look back at my life and career. I realized how stressful and time and energy consuming those recent work years has been.
Having slight anti authotarian tendencies, I always knew the corporate life is dreadful for me. Yet I tried it, because it was the safest way to feed my family while saving up money. But I always told myself I will create my own thing, then I don't have to deal the theater and can focus on solving actual problems.
With the sudden free time I read alot of books, including the fastlane (thanks to AI for the reccomendation), which brought me to this forum. I rarely post publicly or about my life. I do not have social media profiles. So posting here is in itself already a big change for me.
I love building and creating things, before I did that as a software engineer, product and team leader. But I was always building products for other people. And mainly products that I felt made many people probably worse than better off through exploiting their human weaknesses. Now I want to build something where I own the full direction while also actually improving peoples life.
I am here to find mainly two things. First, some sort of comeraderie from people who feel the same way and are on a similar journey. Second, guidance from more experienced folks in their respective area.
I am willing to try many things, and I expect many failures along the way. I want to resist the urge to immediately build another tech product, forcing a solution in search of a problem. Rather I want to focus on building something that actually helps people.
From working through my own reflections on how stressful my life was I realised how little actual useful unprompted guidance is out there. I am big enthusiast of learning about the body and mind, and applying my learnings in everyday life to a) see if they are true and b) because I believe its helpful.
Starting simple my plan for now is operate a small ecommerce shop and brand to offer products that support dealing with the stressfull life of balancing work, family, health and the ever increasing economic uncertainty of the future. Fighting both symptoms and causes I want to offer solutions that worked well for me to improve physical and mental health aswell as overall wellbeing and beauty.
In practice that means a lot of copywriting, content marketing, social media marketing. creating creatives etc. Something I have not too much hands on experience in yet. I am not even using these services, nor am I personally very receptive to social media marketings. I have some content creator friends (although their implicit strategy revolves around showing alot of tits - something I cannot offer). I also know 'normal' people can be reached there. So I am looking a lot to learn and practice digital marketing here, without just churning out only AI slop.
Nice to meet you all
Fa
I worked in tech until last month until I was made redundant due to strategical reorientatio (budget cuts).
This, for the first time afforded me the time to really look back at my life and career. I realized how stressful and time and energy consuming those recent work years has been.
Having slight anti authotarian tendencies, I always knew the corporate life is dreadful for me. Yet I tried it, because it was the safest way to feed my family while saving up money. But I always told myself I will create my own thing, then I don't have to deal the theater and can focus on solving actual problems.
With the sudden free time I read alot of books, including the fastlane (thanks to AI for the reccomendation), which brought me to this forum. I rarely post publicly or about my life. I do not have social media profiles. So posting here is in itself already a big change for me.
I love building and creating things, before I did that as a software engineer, product and team leader. But I was always building products for other people. And mainly products that I felt made many people probably worse than better off through exploiting their human weaknesses. Now I want to build something where I own the full direction while also actually improving peoples life.
I am here to find mainly two things. First, some sort of comeraderie from people who feel the same way and are on a similar journey. Second, guidance from more experienced folks in their respective area.
I am willing to try many things, and I expect many failures along the way. I want to resist the urge to immediately build another tech product, forcing a solution in search of a problem. Rather I want to focus on building something that actually helps people.
From working through my own reflections on how stressful my life was I realised how little actual useful unprompted guidance is out there. I am big enthusiast of learning about the body and mind, and applying my learnings in everyday life to a) see if they are true and b) because I believe its helpful.
Starting simple my plan for now is operate a small ecommerce shop and brand to offer products that support dealing with the stressfull life of balancing work, family, health and the ever increasing economic uncertainty of the future. Fighting both symptoms and causes I want to offer solutions that worked well for me to improve physical and mental health aswell as overall wellbeing and beauty.
In practice that means a lot of copywriting, content marketing, social media marketing. creating creatives etc. Something I have not too much hands on experience in yet. I am not even using these services, nor am I personally very receptive to social media marketings. I have some content creator friends (although their implicit strategy revolves around showing alot of tits - something I cannot offer). I also know 'normal' people can be reached there. So I am looking a lot to learn and practice digital marketing here, without just churning out only AI slop.
Nice to meet you all
Fa
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