Heyyyy there, took sometime off my book to write this year’s review. This is actually my first-time writing one. It feels like I just started living because I got to put in a bit consistency and hard work into my goals in 2022. I understood myself better and pumped at the great things I can still achieve in the future. I learnt three things this year:

1. Life is spiritual and that life’s essence is drawn from God

2. Consistency is the key to achieving your goals.

3. Wherever you are now is a consequence of your action and inactions.

My Story

Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed

I started January with so much determination to leave the trenches 😂 Med school took all of my January, and then ASUU strike came in February. It was much needed in my perspective because I was literally burning out from too much pressure, I was slowly entering depression. Stay away from Med School.

February came I applied for a job that required me to write on “How to write a NFT smart contract & Deploy to the Polygon Network” this was my first time writing technical articles in web3 space. I moved on to spend the next few weeks learning about Ethereum concepts. I was sending applications and the amount of rejections made me feel that I had problems.

In May, the grind began to pay off, I literally got chubby unawares as I literally hit 80kg from 59kg. I pushed a lot of internal and external articles at various foreign companies. I also learnt a great deal for myself and was stuck at a point sometime this year whether I would continue with medicine after school or just drop everything and follow the tech money 🤑

In 2023 I want to get serious as a mentee, work hard, create my definition of success, build more and help people around me.

The good

• Became an ambassador at AngelHack

• I landed a full-time technical role at Crossmint in May

• Became a blockchain mentor at Techup Africa

• Wrote documentation at Instadapp

• I finally changed my gadgets💃

• Started writing for Alchemy in August

• Got a first Devrel role at Ardrive

• Started going to the Gym (inspired by Lekan)

• I made my first Open-source contribution this year

• I became DSC Lead at GDSC OOU and found amazing Co-Leads

• I became a developer tribe leader at Afrisplash Remotely

• I wrote 30+ articles this year'

• Turned 21 can’t believe I might become a father one day

• All my earnings came in Dollar and Crypto

• I gave my first tech talk this year at Devfest Ikorodu

• Wrote articles for Blockcoders, Starton, DAOHQ and many others

• Started writing Rust

• I was able to help people get started in software development and technical writing

• I was able to attend more events this year, meet fellow techies on Twitter, and clubhouse

• Started reading again thanks to Roving Heights

• I found Asa’s music - so soothing

• Invested in 3 startups

The bad

• Got interviewed by Binance, Ripple X, Chainlink was served premium breakfast

• Froze up at last stage of an interview with a cloud-based company. They served me rejection straight

• Lost a $6k per month job product documentation job - I spent 24hrs on the test assignment

• Lost Gigs either because I was from Nigeria or could not relocate

2023 - I go hard

• Start 2 communities

• Create more content on social media

• Speak at more conferences

• Play for a live band 😂

• Contribute more to open-source

• Write for more Unicorns

• Maybe start a youtube channel 😅

• Build more projects with Rust and Go

• Network with more techies

• Land plenty gigs & make more money💰

Well ending this year I can confidently say that I am a better person compared to last year. A lot has really changed.

If you are looking for a way to structure your goals. Here is a free notion template I found on twitter. Feel free to duplicate and modify to suit your needs.

Thank you for reading see you next year. #HappyNewYearsEve