Life has a approach of forcing change upon us.
In early 2023, I suffered a stroke that turned my world the wrong way up.
After twenty years in digital promoting and efficiently taking my firm to IPO, I all of a sudden discovered myself unable to work the way in which I used to. These 60+ hour weeks? Now not an choice.
Immediately, I run a worthwhile enterprise working simply 4 hours a day. Right here’s the tech stack that made it doable.
The Wake-Up Name
Once you’re mendacity in a hospital mattress, unable to talk or work, your perspective shifts dramatically. The irony wasn’t misplaced on me — I’d constructed a profitable profession serving to corporations optimise their digital operations, but my very own work-life steadiness was fully unsustainable.
Restoration meant rebuilding — not simply my well being, however my total method to work. I wanted programs that may permit me to be productive with out burning out. Instruments that may work for me, not demand extra from me.
The Basis: Private Information Administration
The cornerstone of my new system is a stable Private Information Administration (PKM) setup. I consider it as my digital mind — however one that truly works for me, not towards me.