flywheel – two minute tactics

i am about to turn our run-down just-bought flat in berlin into something that looks great and is fun to live in! it's gonna take about two weeks of 12 hours days to pull off.

why am i doing this? i have enough on my plate, i'm the head of engineering at apex, i'm creating content, i already have a real-estate investment business, seems like something on top, that's easier solved by hiring someone to install new doors, light-switches, lay new floors and paint the walls...

so why? because i feel like it! because i'm excited for it! most thing only really connect when you look back at them!

in the past, i've already built two beds, i randomly rebuilt our kitchen last winter (and now we're moving lol), when i was 7 i recorded a reading and q&a session of an author coming to my elementary school.

i've taken 10 years of drumming lessons, i randomly practice singing, sometimes i play the guitar or piano, i love reading random books on the asymmetric risk exposures of options contracts, and what to do after you reach enlightenment, a few years ago i launched a (and just this month concluded) mining business together with a friend and none of these things "make sense". they don't have to make sense. it will only connect when looking back.

my current flywheel (as you can see below) is built on the pillars of my day job as the head of engineering at apex, the real-estate investment business i have together with my partner, the startup idea i'm pursuing, and my latest passion: creating content. they all interlock, they all help each other.

would i have known this is where i'll end up, when i helped my parents buy a rental flat 3 years ago? when i tried creating podcasts and writing in the last 10 years? when i watched my parents renovate houses and build full garden houses from scratch? probably not! but it all connects when looking back!

right now, if i had to guess, i'm at 6% vision completion! i have so much still ahead of me!

it's already fun and exciting, but i can't wait for what the future will bring, because even i don't know how it all fits together!

now, what about you? are you judging yourself for doing random side-projects? are you worried about how "efficient" you work? are you trying to build and create things on the side? if not, try it! it's the most fulfilling thing!

now, this is not really a tactic as usual, more of a tool to stay motivated, but i hope you'll like it none-the-less! #twominutetactics

PS: i'm trying a new tactic - being more informational and adding visualizations (learned from Kyle Poyar). let me know what you think!