Personal lab

Accountability check

• Write the 4 case studies for my personal website. —> 🟢 I wrote 3, I don’t have a 4th worth writing yet!

• Make some progress on the Product Studio idea —> 🟠 Started talking about it to a bunch of people, they encouraged me to go for it. I’m going to keep exploring.

Pains

• I attended my first classical chess tournament and got slapped x) 3 hours games are really something!

• There are a lot of AI tools and things coming up every day, it’s hard to keep up.

Questions/Insights

• How can I have more fun with my work? —> I decided I would dedicate some time to experiment. I read a cool book that helped me realise not everything you start need to have a big goal behind it. You can just try it for a while and see how you feel about it. That’s why I am creating myself a lab. It will be a way to test and share my experiments. (also an opportunity to experiment with some of these AI tools)

• How do I help more people? —> I am going to offer some Bubble coaching

Wins

• I completed my personal website https://benoitdevilliers.com/, I like the result and am glad it’s done for now! (there even is a lab page!)

• Made my first experiment using Windsurf and shared it in my lab, the idea was to expose the emotion wheel, it’s just a simple prototype https://emotion-labeling.pages.dev/ (getting the UI part was easy but the feedback widget took me hours)

App Ideas

• An app that helps you document your app or its feature before you build it

• A mental cookie jar (to help remind you of cool moments when you feel low), it’s a concept from this book.

Next month plan

• Get my first paid coaching client

• Build a first version of the mental cookie jar

• Keep talking to people about the Product studio idea

Hope you are doing well!

Thank you for reading me,

Benoît