We hit Times Square after winning Whop's $3k in 30 days competition and ended up on a billboard.

Back to teaching. Couldn't resist—now part-time at "96mins," helping designers level up their skills (and incomes).

Writing code in my spare time, hunting for the last Infinity Stone by shipping my own designs.

Wound things down at Love Circular. After five years, keeping it alive wasn't feasible. It was a great run – over 300 students graduated and are now employed. 9,000 hours of live teaching.

I travelled and recharged! I went to Porto, Mallorca, Montserrat, Miami, Mexico, eventually settling in New York City.

Ran a half-marathon for shits and giggles one morning, and got addicted to bouldering and weightlifting.

Love Circular lost $1.5 M in assets and revenue—tough year.

Decided it was time for a holiday after 2 years head-down, escaped to Lanzarote to reset.

Uploaded 40+ hours of founder-life vlogs for my YouTube channel.

We hosted a Hakacthon with Google London, and invited some of our students to join.

Starred as Pipe's first UK customer; using it quadrupled revenue

Hit 500 students milestone at Love Circular.

Elbow meets Shiraz. One bottle + Wagyu tataki = broken elbow.

Moved from mum's bedroom office to a proper Manchester city-centre space

Grew fast, hit our first £100 k month (£142 k during Black Friday week), and hired the first full-timers.

I burned out and had to make my first set of full-time hires. Love Circular was growing fast, we made our first £100k month. £142k on Black Friday Week

We invited some of Love Circular students to our first team Christmas party.

First hire (Ali) to teach cohort #2.

My first design student landed a role, 3 weeks before her cohort finished.

First car road trip (333 mi Manchester → Brighton, Cayman GTS + Mustang GT + my Stage 1 S3)

Doggo Levi turned 1.

Matched my previous annual design salary in five months after going full-time.

First year self-employed.

Went from fixing iPhones and B2B sales to UX design at the UK's biggest mobile-app agency.

Landed the role fast (2 months), so I started mentoring—40 designers every week from Aug '19 – Jun '20

Oh yea, first time back in the Big Apple in ten years. 🗽