Share your TOP 3 learnings for this year
365 days is more than enough time to get burned, mess things up, and (most importantly) learn some hard lessons.
My biggest wake-up call this year was neglecting my health until it completely derailed my business – I had to turn down collabs, miss conferences, meetups, and a ton of opportunities.
Here are my top 3 learnings from 2025:
Fix health issues on day 1 (or better yet, prevent them). It cost me 3 whole months of lost projects, events, and momentum – way more expensive than any doctor visit. Cure will take some time as well.
Invest more in LinkedIn – it turned out to be my single most profitable channel by far. I have neglected it for 4+ years. So opportunities missed.
Build real relationships both offline and online. A handful of video calls this year opened doors to collaborations and support I never expected.
What are your top 3 lessons from 2025?
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This put into words a lot of what this year felt like.Especially the health part we don’t realize how costly burnout is until everything is forced to stop.The point about relationships is spot on too. A few genuine conversations can outweigh months of posting. This year, while working on a product, I felt the same. Progress came less from grinding and more from showing up consistently and actually talking to people.
Appreciate you sharing this. Solid reminders to carry into the next year.
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@syed_hassan9 Thank you, Syed, for being honest about these things. Authenticity like this is appreciated (so I know I am not alone here).
@busmark_w_nika Appreciate that,It honestly helps knowing we’re not alone in feeling this way. Conversations like this are a big part of what keeps me going.
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@syed_hassan9 Nice feeling to share the same approach :) Enjoy the week! :)
@busmark_w_nika Likewise 🙂 Always nice to connect with people thinking along similar lines. Enjoy your week too!
Sorry to hear about your health :( I hope you're doing well now🙌 Wish you a healthy 2026💫
My top 3 learnings from 2025 -
Self-belief determines whether you will make it or break it. For so long I used to be always in doubt about myself, which prevented me from trusting a process and blinding believing in it to manifest my local reality. Once I learned to crazily blind trust myself, I saw things changing in the way I wanted it!
It's equivalent to taking a calculated risk to be delusional! I think this is important because before others you need to be the first leap-of-faith taker in your ideas.
Money vs time is a mindset battle. Money is definitely needed for many things, most importantly in enabling intellectual exploration without being showered with constraints caused by financial problems, you know like worrying about paying this month's rent or your sibling's education etc. But personally this year I learned that pursuing something solely with the motive to make money is just a short-term drug that makes you feel good but causes terrible dissatisfaction in the long-term. It's because you lose out on a very important asset that cannot be earned back - TIME - which could have been used to do something more meaningful that would've resulted in both money as well as personal satisfaction on doing something meaningful.
There's nothing wrong with doing one thing at a time. We live in a world with social media filled with people doing crazy stuff that we often feel like "am I being too late?" "Why didn't I think of that!" etc, so it feels like to do everything at once to make up for the time and experiences that we "think" we lost. But in reality, every great thing or accomplishment you see out there is a result of perhaps many failures that never surfaced as an instagram story in front of people. So the lesson for me was that great things do take time to build, there is no escape, so might as well put all your trust , enjoy the process and make it successful rather than burning out doing many side hustles at once and not resulting in anything worthy to speak about.
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@avhijit_nair Thank you, Avhijit, hopefully, I will get better soon!
Regarding self-belief: How do you work on that one? For yourself?
@busmark_w_nika Well I think there is no single formula to that, it's dependent on our individual experiences. For me it was the realization that things take time to give visible results, whether it be starting a new gym routine, doing a side app hustle or anything for that matter. Given this, the best way to reduce uncertainty surrounding "what if" decisions in my life was to just "f**** it, let's do it, whatever happens it happens". I'm not saying it's the most optimal strategy, but it's really hard to find the perfect optimal strategy and that's why I call it a "leap-of-faith". It might or might not work, but there is no other way to really know without doing it.
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@avhijit_nair I heard somewhere about 5 second rule – if you don't do things within 5 seconds, you are less likely to make it. So act as soon as possible :D
OpenQR - QR Generator
One of my biggest realizations this year: great products don’t sell themselves if no one sees them.
Building my product OpenQR.io quietly felt productive, but it slowed everything down.
Here are my top 3 learnings from 2025:
• Be visible in public.
The more I talk about what I’m building, the more people discover it. Visibility compounds faster than perfection.
• Share the product early and often.
Every post, demo, or small update brought new users, feedback, and unexpected opportunities. Silence helped no one.
• Learn from the community.
Public conversations taught me more than months of building alone. Feedback, different perspectives, and real use cases changed how I think about the product.
Building is important — but talking about what you build is just as critical.
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@nerijuso I hope you are active in the buildinpublic community on X! :D
MultiDrive
I hope you’re feeling better now.
My top lessons so far:
Be more active on social platforms (for now, it’s still hard).
Share and surround yourself with people who are open with you as well.
Every failure is a lesson to learn from.
And health: probably the most important part, as it impacts everything.
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@tetianai I dare to say you are really visible here on PH and LinkedIn too. So you are doing things right. ;)
MultiDrive
@busmark_w_nika thank you 🤗
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@tetianai It is true, you earned it! :)