https://tomaslau.com Personal activity log and notes by Tomas Laurinavicius, a Lithuanian founder, growth marketer, designer, developer, and writer. Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:44:36 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html https://github.com/jpmonette/feed https://tomaslau.com/favicon.ico https://tomaslau.com All rights reserved 2026 https://tomaslau.com/blog/ai-is-just-infrastructure https://tomaslau.com/blog/ai-is-just-infrastructure Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2025 https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2025 Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT noise. If you build a persona and business dependent on being active and feeding the algorithm daily, what happens if you don't want to show your face anymore, the algorithm changes, or you want to sell? Build an interest-based brand instead. Go into niches and play games you can win. **Always invest in the latest technology.** Embrace tools, workflows, new ways of thinking, or you will get stuck with square wheels when people are driving race cars and crossing oceans in airplanes. It may not always work, but when it does, you will get the 100x return and decades of edge over your competition. **Speed and decisiveness are some of the highest leverage skills.** Move fast, gather feedback, trust your gut. **You have zero excuses left not to live your best life.** Now with AI you're a few questions away from getting what you want. If you get stuck and are willing to keep asking questions, you will get what you want. **You must understand 100% of your business to get the full advantage and be able to move fast.** If you can control it from bottom to top, you can't be stopped. **It will take time.** You may want to make excuses and sugarcoat it when talking to people, but the only way to win is to play long-term. ## Favorite Books of 2025 - **Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective** by Kenneth O. Stanley - **Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense** by Rory Sutherland - **Thinking in Systems: A Primer** by Donella H. Meadows - **Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant** by W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne - **Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It** by April Dunford - **The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World** by David Deutsch ## Favorite Movies & TV Shows of 2025 **Movies:** - F1 - Frankenstein - Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning - Avatar 3 - One Battle After Another - Bugonia - Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery **TV Shows:** - Silo - Ted Lasso - Your Friends & Neighbors - Severance - From ## Favorite Software & Tools of 2025 - AI SDK - Mastra - Neon DB - Vercel - Next.js - Resend - Claude Opus 4.5 - ChatGPT - Typefully - HTTPie - Figma - Granola - Descript - CleanShot X - Screen Studio - Cloudflare - Visual Studio Code - Cursor It's quite therapeutic to reflect and review everything that happened in one year. This was a year that taught me the most important lesson of all: life is finite. My dad's death was a brutal reminder that we don't get unlimited time. Thank you for reading. Hug your parents. Here's to happy and healthy 2026! If you are interested in my previous annual reviews, check my life lessons of [2013](/blog/life-lessons-2013), [2014](/blog/life-lessons-2014), [2015](/blog/life-lessons-2015), [2016](/blog/life-lessons-2016), [2017](/blog/life-lessons-2017), [2018](/blog/life-lessons-2018), [2019](/blog/life-lessons-2019), [2020](/blog/life-lessons-2020), [2023](/blog/life-lessons-2023), and [2024](/blog/life-lessons-2024). ]]> tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/if-by-rudyard-kipling https://tomaslau.com/blog/if-by-rudyard-kipling Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/quotes https://tomaslau.com/blog/quotes Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/disorganized-productivity https://tomaslau.com/blog/disorganized-productivity Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/you-already-know-what-to-do https://tomaslau.com/blog/you-already-know-what-to-do Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT Take a simple idea and take it seriously. – **Charles Munger** You already know the simple idea: build, publish, learn. The serious part is rigging the game so each hour pushes on a bigger lever. Do that, and fear, whether of failure or success, gets crowded out by basic arithmetic. Now close this tab and go pull a lever. ]]> tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/how-to-host-mcp https://tomaslau.com/blog/how-to-host-mcp Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/how-to-delete-chatgpt-history https://tomaslau.com/blog/how-to-delete-chatgpt-history Sat, 31 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT **Personalization** > **Manage Memory**. 2. Delete individual memories or clear all at once. ### Important Notes - **Deleted chats are permanent:** Once you confirm deletion, your data is permanently removed from your account. - **Processing time:** OpenAI states that deleted chats are removed from their systems within 30 days. - **Archiving:** You can also archive chats if you want to hide them instead of deleting. [Learn more about archiving](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7730893-how-can-i-delete-my-chat-history). ### Quick Reference Table | Action | Desktop Steps | Mobile Steps | | ------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | | Delete individual conversation | Hover > ⋯ > Delete | Long-press chat > Delete | | Delete all chat history | Profile icon > Settings > Delete all chats > Confirm | Menu > Profile > Data Controls > Clear Chat History > Confirm | | Delete/clear ChatGPT memory | Settings > Personalization > Manage/Clear Memory | Menu > Profile > Personalization > Manage/Clear Memory | ## Final Thoughts Managing your ChatGPT history is simple and helps you maintain control over your data. For the latest updates or more detailed instructions, always check the [OpenAI Help Center](https://help.openai.com/). ]]> tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/how-to-turn-red-light-on-iphone https://tomaslau.com/blog/how-to-turn-red-light-on-iphone Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT `Accessibility` > `Display & Text Size`. 2. **Enable Color Filters**: - Scroll down and tap `Color Filters`. - Toggle the switch to turn on Color Filters. 3. **Select Color Tint**: - Choose `Color Tint` from the options. - Adjust the sliders for **Intensity** and **Hue** all the way to the right to achieve a full red-screen effect. 4. **Save Your Settings**: - Once configured, your screen will display a red tint. ### Method 2: Creating a Shortcut 1. **Set Up Accessibility Shortcut**: - Go to `Settings` > `Accessibility` > `Accessibility Shortcut`. - Select `Color Filters`. 2. **Activate with Triple Click**: - You can now triple-click the side button (or home button on older devices) to toggle the red screen on or off instantly. ### Method 3: Automating Red Light Activation 1. **Open Shortcuts App**: - Launch the `Shortcuts` app on your iPhone. 2. **Create Personal Automation**: - Tap on the `Automation` tab and select `Create Personal Automation`. 3. **Choose Trigger**: - Set triggers like `Time of Day` (e.g., sunset) or `Sleep Mode` for automatic activation. 4. **Add Action**: - Search for "Set Color Filter" and select it. - Ensure it’s set to "On." 5. **Finalize Automation**: - Disable "Ask Before Running" and tap "Done" to complete setup. ## Why Enable Red Light on Your iPhone? Using a red light display on your iPhone offers several advantages: - **Reduced eye strain:** Red light minimizes visual fatigue by avoiding the harmful effects of short-wave blue light. Blue light's short wavelength causes its focus to fall in front of the retina rather than directly on it, leading to prolonged exposure that [worsens visual fatigue and nearsightedness](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6288536/). - **Improved sleep quality:** Red light reduces blue light exposure, which disrupts melatonin production and negatively impacts sleep. - **Preservation of night vision:** Red light helps your eyes adapt better in dark environments, making it ideal for nighttime activities. - **Decreased headaches:** Switching to red light can alleviate headaches caused by bright screens. ## How to Turn Off Red Tint If you wish to disable the red tint: 1. Return to `Settings` > `Accessibility` > `Display & Text Size`. 2. Toggle off `Color Filters`, or adjust the sliders back to default settings. Alternatively, triple-click the side button if you've set up an Accessibility Shortcut. ## Common Questions ### Is red light on iPhone good? Yes, it is beneficial for reducing eye strain, improving sleep quality, and preserving night vision in dark environments. ### How do I turn off red tint quickly? Use the Accessibility Shortcut (triple-click the side button) or disable Color Filters in Accessibility settings. ### Can I automate red light activation? Absolutely! Use the Shortcuts app to create automations based on time or sleep mode triggers for seamless activation. That's it. By following this guide, you can easily enable and customize the red light feature on your iPhone, ensuring better eye health and improved nighttime usability while mitigating the harmful effects of blue light exposure. ]]> tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/vibe-coding https://tomaslau.com/blog/vibe-coding Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT After three months as a non-techie vibe coder, I've learned that while powerful, these tools have clear boundaries. The main limitations are: 1) AI hallucinations as projects grow in complexity (making direct code edits often more reliable than chat-based changes), and 2) your own understanding of software fundamentals (I once naively pasted an API key into a chat until Bolt rightfully scolded me about security risks). > > That said, tools like Lovable and Replit excel at guiding beginners through implementation decisions - suggesting database connections for user dashboards or email APIs for notifications. > > As of April 2025, most building blocks already exist; the real limitation is your ability to reason through problems, debug efficiently, and connect the right solutions. The learning curve isn't about coding syntax but understanding the underlying principles of what you're trying to build. This practical insight highlights an important reality: while vibe coding democratizes the ability to build software, it doesn't eliminate the need to understand basic principles of how software works. The tools can write the code for you, but you still need to guide them effectively and understand enough about what you're building to make good decisions. ## Should You Try It? Absolutely yes! I'm a big believer in **FAFO (f–k around and find out)**, so go give it a try. If you're a creator with limited coding experience but big ideas, vibe coding might be worth exploring. Here's a simple approach to get started with vibe coding: 1. **Choose a simple project**: Start with something small and well-defined 2. **Select an accessible tool**: [Replit](https://replit.com/), [Lovable](https://lovable.dev/), [Bolt](https://bolt.new/), or [Cursor](https://cursor.com/) offer free tiers 3. **Be specific in your prompts**: Clear instructions yield better results 4. **Expect iterations**: First attempts may need refinement 5. **Learn from the output**: Take time to understand the generated code The beauty of vibe coding is that you can start small and build something people want, use, and pay money for while asking questions when coding and essentially gving yourself an education in programming. I can't imagine a more immersive way to learn technology and business. For professionals in marketing, design, or content creation, vibe coding can help you prototype ideas and create functional demos without dependency on development teams. For solo entrepreneurs, it can accelerate your path from idea to market-ready product. However, for enterprise applications or projects with specific security requirements, a hybrid approach may be more appropriate—using vibe coding for prototyping while maintaining traditional development practices for production code. ## Market Expansion: Early Signs of a Developer Revolution Beyond theoretical debates, we're already seeing evidence that vibe coding is creating a significant market expansion in the developer ecosystem. I predict this trend will lead to millions of new developers entering the global economy—people who previously couldn't participate due to technical barriers. The early signs of this transformation are visible in the data from developer tooling companies. Paul Copplestone, CEO of [Supabase](https://supabase.com/), [recently shared compelling evidence of this shift](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paulcopplestone_its-pretty-clear-at-this-point-that-ai-is-activity-7300046773895532544-MiGI/): > It's pretty clear at this point that AI is enabling more builders. The market is rapidly expanding for all developer tools. We're seeing a lot of growth in Supabase driven by tools like: cursor; bolt; lovable; v0; codev; windsurf. Many low-code builders from the past few years are now going all-in on AI.  This observation is supported by Supabase's internal metrics showing a dramatic increase in weekly sign-ups—with a hockey-stick growth curve appearing in late 2024 and early 2025. This isn't isolated to just one platform; Jan Čurn, CEO of [Apify](https://apify.com/), reported a similar pattern: "Our organic traffic has also skyrocketed over the past two months."  These market indicators suggest we're at the beginning of a significant expansion in who can participate in software creation. The implications are profound: 1. **Expanded talent pool**: Companies can tap into a broader range of creative talent, not limited to those with traditional coding skills 2. **Geographical diversity**: Software creation could decentralize further, empowering builders in regions without established tech education systems 3. **Industry-specific innovation**: Experts in non-tech fields (healthcare, finance, education) can directly implement their domain knowledge without technical intermediaries 4. **Economic opportunity**: New career paths will emerge for "prompt engineers" and "vibe architects" who specialize in guiding AI tools toward desired outcomes This democratization of software development resembles previous technological inflection points. Think of the introduction of word processors that freed writers from typewriters, or digital cameras that liberated photography from darkroom expertise. Each time, the number of creators expanded exponentially while the required technical knowledge decreased. As the trend continues, watch for further indicators of this expansion: rising user numbers for AI-powered developer tools, increases in amateur-built applications, and probably most tellingly, diversification in the profiles of people who identify as "developers" or "builders" in the tech ecosystem. May the good vibes be with you! ]]> tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/visual-line-wrapping-cursor-windsurf https://tomaslau.com/blog/visual-line-wrapping-cursor-windsurf Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/barcelona https://tomaslau.com/blog/barcelona Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/digital-warm-up https://tomaslau.com/blog/digital-warm-up Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2024 https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2024 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT The light we see today from galaxies in the Virgo Cluster started on its path toward us at the same time as the age of the dinosaurs was ending on Earth. If you were in a Virgo Cluster galaxy today, and you had a telescope powerful enough to study the Earth, you would be able to see the prehistoric reptiles. _"A writer is working when he's staring out of the window."_ – Burton Rascoe _"Building 50% of a thing isn't 50% as productive, it's 0% as productive. There are few things less productive than work that is thrown away."_ – Jeremy Mikkola _"I love Brent Beshore's observation that, 'I am 100% happy to watch you get really rich doing something that I have no interest in doing.' It's not always a competition."_ – Morgan Housel Selling might be just eliminating objections until there's extreme clarity that you are getting good value for money. **Don't worry about talking about what interests you.** Being yourself attracts like-minded people and repels the boring ones. It's easier to sell a hotdog to a hungry person than trying to convince someone to get more food after lunch. **Once you find something you are good at, enjoy doing, and people can pay for it, stick to it.** You'll get unfairly good over the years, making competition irrelevant. **Be boring with personal finance.** Cut costs, cancel subscriptions, save money, invest in VWCE every month, and act very conservatively. Your personal finances have one job only: to keep you in the game indefinitely. Don't get ruined with big risks. On the other hand, regularly take calculated risks with your business, and create a business entity if you don't have one yet. **You don't want to retire and do nothing.** You want to find something you want to do indefinitely. **It's fine to change your mind.** What does 18-year-old me know about 33-year-old me's interests and preferences? **It's never too late to start playing long-term games.** Just by staying in the game long enough, you increase your chance of success since you expose yourself to more randomness that can benefit you. _"The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, 'Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,' and that is true. Everything I've accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude."_ — Jeff Bezos **If you're building a startup today, your real moats are in the Three D's: Data, Distribution, and Design.** - **Data:** How well you understand your users and their behavior. - **Distribution:** Your unique way of reaching and connecting with customers. - **Design:** Your taste and craftsmanship. Shane Levine, Founder at Turbo Questions helping decision-making: - Will it give me more options? - Will it save time? - Will it make me more money? - Will it make me happier? - Will it make me healthier? - Will I have to maintain it? - Can I combine it with other things? e.g. hike = socialize + exercise **Building stuff >** books > courses > personal blogs > podcasts > documentaries > social media. **Live frugally.** Money in the bank can give you better peace of mind and options to get away from most bad situations, focus on unprofitable but fulfilling projects, and invest in your health by buying faster private health services. I just canceled a bunch of personal subscriptions. I am still at $1,300/year (most expensive being the gym, mobile plan, and Apple iCloud). That's like $40,000 over the next 30 years. _"**Never risk your long-term assets.** No bet of yours should, in case of failure, destroy your health, capital, relationships, and trustworthiness."_ – Luca Dellanna _"How many speeches must you make to become a good public speaker? How many products do you need to launch to become a competent entrepreneur? **How many failures do you need to succeed?** Ensure you have a strategy that can afford that number of attempts. Hopefully, you will succeed faster, maybe even on your first try. But if you want your success to be inevitable, you must be able to afford to make many attempts - and start making them as soon as possible."_ – Luca Dellanna _"You waste years by not being able to waste hours."_ – Amos Tversky _"Ninety percent of success can be boiled down to **consistently doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time** without convincing yourself that you're smarter than you are."_ – Shane Parrish _"General ambition will give you anxiety. Specific ambition will give you direction."_ – Anu **Trajectory over goals.** It's fun to set goals, but they can be misleading while you achieve your goals focusing on the wrong thing, or they can be devastating as you focus on outcomes rather than inputs. Reviewing your life trajectory, health, relationships, and work is a better indicator as there are inevitably good and bad days, but your average should always be an upward trend. **The internet is for everyone, but use cases are individual.** Don't treat every channel, platform, tool, or opportunity equally. **Social media is for discovering things and learning opinions.** Search is for finding things you already know exist. Keep this in mind when marketing your business and tailor your content for each channel. **Do things you say you'll do.** A simple but not easy way to build trust, authority, and reputation. **Take care of your body hardware and software.** Your body is your hardware and software; constant maintenance, good sleep, and exercise are needed if you want to stay long in the game. There are days when going to the gym feels like work, but it is work—maintenance work and installing updates—boring, tedious, but needed. _"Short-term players almost see winning long-term games as a failure. 'You could have achieved that faster.' So, short-term players take actions that are unsustainable over the long term. They sacrifice their health or personal lives, incur excessive spending, consume their trust capital, take small risks that could go wrong in serious ways, and so on. Conversely, long-term players only use strategies that they can sustain over the long term."_ – Luca Dellanna **Play on easy mode.** Hustle culture looks good on social media, but you get better odds if you work on easy mode. Easier problems, easier solutions, easier work schedule. This way, you can sustain it long-term and play the game indefinitely. Boring businesses give freedom and resources to work on challenging and interesting projects. **Distribution is becoming more important than creation.** Finding a way to reach users and give them what they want is harder than ever. You don't have to make money from the same place you lost it. _"Uber was just one of many projects Kalanick juggled in 2010. Zuckerberg started quite a few software projects before Facebook. Sure, most of those were tiny, but was it so obvious before the fact that Facebook would become so big? Probably, for at least some time, it looked like 'just another project.' And J.K. Rowling wrote another novel and more minor projects before her world-famous Harry Potter. Most successful people start with a portfolio of bets that later converge to a single, major, winning bet. The keyword is 'later.'"_ – Luca Dellanna ## Favorite Purchases of 2024 I don't really buy much stuff these days. Mostly digital subscriptions to improve my productivity, but this year I've been obsessed with coding and absolutely loved Cursor, the AI code editor. I'm also very happy with Windsurf as it understands my coding style better with certain projects. I'm in Thailand now, traveling for a month and got a battery case. I usually don't use a case for my iPhone as I don't like how it feels, but exploring and using maps + data drains my battery quickly. I got this [iPhone charger](https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B00QUU6T0E/ref=ox_sc_act_title_12?smid=A217EVZJH2JMV5&psc=1) and it works great! - [ZeroWork](https://www.zerowork.io/) - [Cursor](https://www.cursor.com/) - [Claude AI](https://claude.ai/) - [Typefully](https://typefully.com/) - [Windsurf](https://codeium.com/windsurf) - [Screaming Frog](https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/) - [Achromatic](https://www.achromatic.dev/) ## Favorite Books of 2024 I [proudly claim](https://tomaslau.com/about) that I love books and have an Everand subscription until 2351. However, this year I didn't read as much as I would have liked. I found myself spending more time on Twitter (now X) than I should. While scrolling feels good and addictive just like potato chips, I barely retain anything. I can't even remember what I saw on social media an hour ago, let alone a month ago. Books, though sometimes feeling boring and slow, requiring that magical activation energy to start reading, are still superior to digital content. The repetitive stories and lengthy examples help cement the main ideas in my brain. I primarily listened to the Founders podcast this year, and noticed that most people I admire are voracious readers. While not the most practical way to store and consume books, physical books inspire me and give me a different sense of accomplishment. I've realized that like some people enjoy shopping malls, I love browsing bookstores and libraries - not necessarily to buy books, but to feel humbled by the abundance of knowledge and ideas. It reminds me of my insignificant existence and the fact that I'll never read all the books in the world. My approach to reading has evolved. Instead of measuring success by the number of books completed or forcing myself to finish unenjoyable reads, I now follow Naval's approach of choosing books based on current interests. If a book doesn't captivate me, I don't hesitate to skim or leave it unfinished. Fortunately, books have no feelings (not yet). Here are some of the [books I enjoyed reading](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14358907.Tomas_Laurinavicius), listening to, or skimming through: - Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer - Never Enough by Andrew Wilkinson - Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove - Winning Long-Term Games by Luca Dellanna - The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick - Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham - Optionality by Richard Meadows - Crypto Confidential by Nat Eliason - Alchemy by Rory Sutherland - Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon - Create Once, Distribute Forever by Ross Simmonds ## Best Movies & TV Shows I Watched in 2024 - Society of the Snow (2023) - Poor Things (2023) - Griselda (2024) - The Creator (2023) - Dune: Part Two (2024) - All the Light We Cannot See (2023) - Kaos (2024) - From (2022) - Dark Matter (2024) - Gladiator II (2024) - Silo (2023) - Beef (2023) - Severance (2022) - Band of Brothers (2001) - One Hundred Years of Solitude (2024) ## Looking Forward to 2025 Here are my predictions and goals for 2025: - Squat 100kg - Achieve pain-free shoulders through consistent band exercises - Bitcoin will dip to the low $40,000s during 2025 - It's unlikely I'll revive my personal newsletter - Explore self-publishing and release 5 books - Continue avoiding TikTok - Consider starting a YouTube channel - Resist the urge to start a podcast - Practice intermittent fasting with a 9:00-16:00 eating window (skipping dinner) - Witness and participate in the renaissance of personal blogging - Read more physical books - Write more short-form and long-form essays - Focus on consuming existing courses and books rather than buying new ones Thank you for taking the time to read this. Here's to a prosperous 2025! If you’re interested in my previous annual reviews, check out my life lessons from [2013](/blog/life-lessons-2013), [2014](/blog/life-lessons-2014), [2015](/blog/life-lessons-2015), [2016](/blog/life-lessons-2016), [2017](/blog/life-lessons-2017), [2018](/blog/life-lessons-2018), [2019](/blog/life-lessons-2019), [2020](/blog/life-lessons-2020), and [2023](/blog/life-lessons-2023). ]]> tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/upgrade-nextjs-contentlayer-fix https://tomaslau.com/blog/upgrade-nextjs-contentlayer-fix Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/dev-bookmarks https://tomaslau.com/blog/dev-bookmarks Sat, 24 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2023 https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2023 Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/saas-boilerplates https://tomaslau.com/blog/saas-boilerplates Mon, 11 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/inspirations https://tomaslau.com/blog/inspirations Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/reading-list https://tomaslau.com/blog/reading-list Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/content-production-process https://tomaslau.com/blog/content-production-process Fri, 21 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/sops https://tomaslau.com/blog/sops Mon, 17 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/ai-bookmarks https://tomaslau.com/blog/ai-bookmarks Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT ) - [Free Script](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1NeJbtLGCEszwAkaq9KQ_9Ai-52wmAska#scrollTo=rL-UYrcMGNY_) - Automatic Schema Enhancement: Improve Search Visibility With the Help of GPT4 via [Kristin Tynski](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kristintynski_gpt4-googlecolab-python-activity-7058863537414131713-ggIV?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) - [Use ChatGPT to clean company names](https://burly-dessert-828.notion.site/Use-ChatGPT-to-clean-company-names-d714eabddc9442fbb969e1924fd1ea1f) - [Using GPT-3 To Automate Your Workflows (Full Tutorial)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrpKQVNtTws) ## Prompts - [ChatGPT can access the internet, use APIs and display images! Might need a few tries and often throws a final "network error" but it works.](https://twitter.com/SchmartinMartin/status/1602462324429922310) ## Blogs ## Lists - [Supertools](https://supertools.therundown.ai/) ## People - [Greg Kamradt](https://github.com/gkamradt), [@GregKamradt](https://twitter.com/GregKamradt) ## Tools | Tool | Description | Open-Source | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------- | | [Phind](https://www.phind.com/) | Personal search-enabled assistant for programmers. | No | | [LangChain](https://python.langchain.com/docs/get_started/introduction.html) | A framework for developing applications powered by language models. It enables applications that are data-aware and agentic. | Yes | | [LlamaIndex](https://gpt-index.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) | LlamaIndex (GPT Index) is a data framework for your LLM application. | Yes | | [Chroma](https://www.trychroma.com/) | The AI-native open-source embedding database. | Yes | | [Vectara](https://vectara.com/) | Vectara is a developer-first API platform for easily building conversational search experiences that feature best-in-class Retrieval, Summarization, and “Grounded Generation” that all but eliminates hallucinations. | No | | [Chainlit](https://chainlit.io/) | An open-source asynchronous Python framework for building scalable conversational AI or agentic applications quickly and efficiently. | Yes | | [Embedchain](https://embedchain.ai/) | An open-source retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework that simplifies the creation and deployment of AI applications using RAG models. | Yes | | [CrewAI](https://www.crewai.io/) | An open-source Python framework designed to orchestrate the collaboration of autonomous AI agents, enabling them to work together seamlessly to accomplish complex tasks. | Yes | | [Devv.ai](https://devv.ai/) | A next-generation search engine for developers offering various modes like Fast Mode for quick answers, Agent Mode powered by GPT-4 for complex questions, and GitHub Mode for interacting with repositories. Provides lightning-fast responses, documentation, and code snippets to assist developers in their queries. | No | ## Courses - [ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers](https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/chatgpt-prompt-engineering-for-developers/) - [Learn Prompting](https://learnprompting.org/) - [LLM University](https://docs.cohere.com/docs/llmu) - [LangChain: Chat with Your Data](https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/langchain-chat-with-your-data/) To be continued... ]]> tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/seo-bookmarks https://tomaslau.com/blog/seo-bookmarks Sat, 15 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/hard-to-kill https://tomaslau.com/blog/hard-to-kill Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/personal-blogs https://tomaslau.com/blog/personal-blogs Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/increments https://tomaslau.com/blog/increments Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/favorites https://tomaslau.com/blog/favorites Mon, 03 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/nextjs-favicons https://tomaslau.com/blog/nextjs-favicons Sun, 02 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/breadcrumbs https://tomaslau.com/blog/breadcrumbs Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/saas-inspiration https://tomaslau.com/blog/saas-inspiration Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/problems https://tomaslau.com/blog/problems Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/spectator https://tomaslau.com/blog/spectator Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/you-are-the-product https://tomaslau.com/blog/you-are-the-product Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/growth-habits-of-finance-blogger https://tomaslau.com/blog/growth-habits-of-finance-blogger Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT What do you think you know, and why do you think you know it? This is a recurring line in the first and last Harry Potter fanfiction I will ever read (seriously, [it’s great](http://www.hpmor.com/)), written by an AI researcher who founded a community of ‘rationalists’ aspiring to make better decisions and model the world more accurately. I ask myself this question all the time: when I’m reading the news, listening to someone else speak, thinking about the social consensus on a given topic, or during my own self-criticism and introspection. The idea is to try to catch myself in motivated reasoning, to go back to first principles when necessary, and make sure my map of the world is as clear as possible. It’s necessarily imperfect, but I quite like living in a slightly ambiguous and uncertain world. It’s very liberating not to feel compelled to have an opinion on everything. ]]> tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2020 https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2020 Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2019 https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2019 Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/internet-business-ideas https://tomaslau.com/blog/internet-business-ideas Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/questions https://tomaslau.com/blog/questions Sat, 22 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/everything-is-relative https://tomaslau.com/blog/everything-is-relative Mon, 27 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/discipline https://tomaslau.com/blog/discipline Tue, 19 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/bored https://tomaslau.com/blog/bored Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2018 https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2018 Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/nomad-cruise https://tomaslau.com/blog/nomad-cruise Wed, 02 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/doubt https://tomaslau.com/blog/doubt Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2017 https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2017 Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2016 https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2016 Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/digital-skills https://tomaslau.com/blog/digital-skills Fri, 07 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/college-alternatives https://tomaslau.com/blog/college-alternatives Wed, 08 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/no-one-owes-you-anything https://tomaslau.com/blog/no-one-owes-you-anything Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/habits https://tomaslau.com/blog/habits Mon, 07 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/fck-it-list https://tomaslau.com/blog/fck-it-list Thu, 11 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/if-not-now-when https://tomaslau.com/blog/if-not-now-when Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2015 https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2015 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” ― Steve Jobs **Hiring people is a damn hard process.** I’ve read a lot about the hiring process, interviews, have been there myself and now once the time is to actually get someone on board is extremely hard. What I learned is that even if you have 50 applicants go one by one, don’t try to have everything done at once. **Never compare your weaknesses to other people’s strengths.** As Einstein once said, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” **Own your life or someone will own it for you.** As Oprah said, “You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.” **Comfort is the ultimate enemy of achievement.** If you want to get something, get up and work your butt off. It’s not going to be easy and comfortable. **Don’t blindly listen to what anyone says to you.** Everyone these days gives you an advice how to live your life. Don’t listen to everyone. You don’t have to eat dinner with them, live with them or go to bed with them. **If you risk nothing, you risk everything.** Playing safe won’t take you far. Believe in yourself and your dream, stand for it and do bold things to achieve greatness in your life. Winner takes it all. **Climb up not to show yourself to the world but to see the world.** Achieving things that for some people might look like a waste of time is going to open your eyes and show you what you are capable of. **If you don’t do stupid things now, you will have nothing to smile about tomorrow.** Failure is inevitable, understand that you will not be right all the time, just have fun and make bold moves. **Don’t waste your time with an explanation, people only hear what they want to hear.** Do your thing and be proud of it. People who matter don’t mind and people who mind don’t matter. **Don’t think of changing the world, think of changing yourself.** Become more loving, caring, trusting, creating, accepting. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves. **Open your eyes and look around, you might be living in the paradise already.** I rediscovered my own country. I visited beautiful Nida and Neringa for the very first time. I’ve been traveling tens of thousands of kilometers around the world but forgot to really appreciate what was around me all the time. Beautiful and pure nature. **I learned to enjoy running.** I’ve beaten my half-marathon time by 23 minutes. On September 13th, I’ve completed the half-marathon distance in 1 hour 47 min 29 sec. After training hard for 5 weeks, I came to the start line more than ready and I came to enjoy the whole distance. Breathing the competition, being among like-minded people competing not against each other but against themselves and their limiting mindset was an exceptional experience. Everyone was a winner that day. **Get rid of anything that isn’t useful.** Declutter your physical, mental and digital life. Things weigh you down, they end up owning you and stopping you from making your crazy ideas happen. **The comparison is a waste of time.** Accept what you already have, not what you think you need. Getting more and more will not make you happy. True happiness is accepting what you already have, wanting more will create more suffering. **Everyone is looking for the "right" person, but no one is trying to be the right person.** Stop blaming others and take full responsibility for your life and what happens in it. Become the best person you can. Be just a little bit kinder, more honest, more loving, more positive, more supportive, more listening, more compassionate and you will notice how many *“right”* people are around you. **Forgive yourself.** Yes, you hurt someone, yes you failed an exam, yes, you cheated on your partner, yes, you lost everything. Forgive yourself and move on. You can choose to keep the guilt inside of you or release and fill it with love and compassion. **Be present and practice mindfulness.** Our lives are rushing at an incredible pace, tablets, laptops, smartphones, there is so much going on. Where are we rushing? To live? Life is here and now. Practice mindfulness to really embrace the moment. Right now, sit straight, take a deep breath, count from one to three and exhale. Notice how your belly is raising when you inhale, notice how it is falling when you exhale. Look around and be more mindful of the things you see. **There is no right or wrong.** Thinking makes things right or wrong. Imagine you have a great pool party coming and you want to show off in your fancy swimsuit but suddenly it starts raining. There are two things that can happen, you will get mad and angry and will try to resist the rain, but the rain can't be stopped, or you will accept and dance in the rain. **However good or bad a situation is, it will change.** You might be going through a very hard time now, you might be enjoying yourself very much but it’s important to know that everything will change, don’t fall in love with the moment, just accept it as it is without expecting anything. **What other people think of you is none of your business.** You can’t make people happy, angry, proud, sad or feel any other way. They are fully in charge to choose how to feel so stop thinking about what others might think or feel. **No one is in charge of your happiness but you.** Remember that **[no one owes you anything](/blog/no-one-owes-you-anything)**, you are not meant to be happy by default. It’s your intentional choice to live happily and do everything to enjoy your time on this magnificent planet. **Sex is not the ultimate intimacy.** Openness, connection, trust and vulnerability lead to the amazing and unforgettable experiences. Work on your emotional intelligence, practice gratitude and speak up what’s on your mind. You will be surprised what lies outside of your emotional comfort zone. **Life is unfair, but it’s still good.** This year was insanely mad and chaotic. There is war, hunger, diseases, children abuse, inequality, racism. But life is still good nonetheless, don’t let all the negativity weigh you down. **You don’t have to win everything.** Losing is a part of the process. I’m still learning to accept the loss but victory is so much sweeter once you know the bitterness of the defeat. Believe in yourself and keep giving it all. **Don’t overthink, trust your gut and make decisions in a snap.** Analysis paralysis is not the best thing to suffer from, your brain is capable of making the right decision in a snap, well, most of the time, trust yourself and allow life to happen. **Stop searching for yourself and trying to define yourself.** Just be aware of how you react to certain things and let yourself unfold. No need for close moderation and investigation of who you are. **Wear your fancy shirt, open that expensive wine, eat that luxury chocolate.** Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special. Stop collecting things and waiting for something, create and enjoy experiences, let go of physical commitments. **When you have a dream and believe in it, do whatever it takes to make it happen.** Don’t take no for an answer, don’t let other people decide for you, don’t let negative thoughts hold you back. Nobody said it will be easy, but it will be worth it. **The past is over and future not yet come so enjoy the present because it’s the only thing you can change.** Experience the **[present moment](/blog/if-not-now-when)** and give it all. Make peace with your past as it won’t come back, stop worrying about the future as it is yet to come. **You will have to face adversity, don’t give up.** You have a dream, you have a vision of who you want to be, what do you want to achieve but you will be constantly bombarded with challenges and obstacles in your way. Don’t give up and keep going. **The only constant is change.** You may want things to be one or the other way but only accepting things the way they are and adapting to the change will make you happier and more alive than ever before. **Learning a language is hard but helps you to connect with people on a different level.** I’ve started learning Indonesian this year and just knowing basic phrases allowed me to connect with locals on a completely different emotional level. **Life is a traveling experience.** Most of the time you’ll be alone, there will be some people sticking to your travels long-term, some of them will only show up episodically. Enjoy the journey. **In the end, all that truly matters is that you loved.** Another year is over and I don’t care how many arguments I won, I don’t care how many times I was right, I don’t care if I grew my business. All I care is that I loved myself, moments in the world, people surrounding me, my family and friends supporting me no matter where I am. Once I think about it fills me up with calming love for life. **What did you learn in 2015?** I'd love to hear your ups and downs and learn from you. If you’ve found this article inspiring I would highly appreciate if you could share it with someone who might find it interesting. If you are interested in my previous annual reviews, check my life lessons of **[2013](/blog/life-lessons-2013)**, **[2014,](/blog/life-lessons-2014)** **[2016,](/blog/life-lessons-2016)** **[2017](/blog/life-lessons-2017)**, **[2018](/blog/life-lessons-2018)**, and **[2019](/blog/life-lessons-2019)**. ]]> tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/vipassana https://tomaslau.com/blog/vipassana Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2014 https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2014 Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2013 https://tomaslau.com/blog/life-lessons-2013 Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT goals. I believe that building a habit is changing your lifestyle, for example I started to eat cleaner and healthier in 2013, on the way I realised that I don’t want it to work as a goal, because a goal has a deadline, I wanted to change my lifestyle and eat healthy for the rest of my life. That’s is why I am building a habit to eat cleaner which doesn’t have an expiration date. **Discipline is a crucial part of success.** I’ve been into sports for 13 years and it became a huge part of my life. However entering adulthood, college and working full-time dictate other rules you need to play by. Having a routine and cutting off all of the unnecessary shit will let you slowly move towards your goals. **Action is what changes everything.** You can read all of the existing books on cooking but no one will remember you as a person who read all of the books on cooking. Write one yourself, no matter how crappy it will be, someone will find value there and you’ll be remembered for it. **Produce more than you consume.** Unsubscribe from most of the newsletters, unlike stupid pages on Facebook, unfollow spammers consuming your time on Twitter, stop watching YouTube cats, read and write rather than reading all the time. Create more than you consume. **Big numbers won’t make you happy, focus on relationships and people rather than fans/followers.** Having 5 people on Twitter that I can ask advice at any time makes more happy than having 15k followers who don’t really care what I am doing. **Running is fun, not always.** It’s free, recharges your batteries, lets you get familiar with local area and burns fat. However it might not be that fun when it’s freezing outside, windy or you had a huge party last night but you’ll never regret that you went for a run. **You are capable of more than you think.** I proved it to myself running, even though I was in athletics for 10 years I have never run more than 2 km so running 13 km for 5 days in a row made me think that I can do more than I was thinking I can. **Digital detox works.** Being a designer and entrepreneur I spend too much time online, designing, answering emails, reading, writing, checking notifications on my iPhone and other digital shit consumes my time and energy. I am trying to plug off for Sundays and enjoy outdoors, watching movies, reading a book, going for a walk. Mondays became more productive. **Traveling is not expensive.** I went from London to Paris for £10 return. I’ve traveled around the Europe for £1000. Try cheap flights on **[Ryanair](http://www.ryanair.com/)**, cheap buses on **[Megabus](http://megabus.com/)** and cheap or free accommodation on **[Couchsurfing](https://www.couchsurfing.com/)**. **There are no rules.** All of the rules were made up to make certain people achieve their goals. Realising this will take some time, but when you get it, you’re free to do anything. **You will not die.** Most of the times you resist of doing something because you are afraid of failing, you don’t want people to judge you. If there is no threat for your life you shouldn’t be resisting doing something stupid. **You will die (one day).** Death is probably the best motivator for me. One day I won’t be able to wake up and say hi to my friends and family, I won’t be able to go for a run, I wont be able to travel the word because I’ll be dead. You’ll die too, think about it. **Love yourself, no matter what.** You didn’t finish your 5 km run, you just missed a deadline, you cheated on your diet and drank too much alcohol last night. Does’t matter, it’s you and you should love yourself. **There is no personal or professional life, you’re the same, take advantage of it.** You are the same person in every situation in life, stop pretending or playing by the rules that are not yours. Be yourself, people will like you, if they don’t you probably shouldn’t be dealing with them. **Failure doesn’t exist.** Start seeing failures as a part of process and you will realise that it simply doesn’t exist. 5 years ago I had to design 5 websites for free to get one paid client. It is not a failure, my process simply was 5 free designs for one paid. **Building a startup is hard, very hard.** I am building a startup with my friend and it is freaking hard. There are so many different thing to take care of, lack of money, skills, time and experience make it very hard, hopefully rewarding. **You can’t judge people.** I used to judge, assume and underestimate people. There are no rules in life and you don’t know what other people are living for. Stop judging and hopefully you won’t be judged. **It’s never too late.** Unless you’re dying tomorrow, only then it might be too late to start something, otherwise you have plenty of time. Focus on the things that matter and make time. **Time flies, you want it or not.** I’m already 22, time just passed by since I’ve been 18. For you it may seem funny but I feel it was too quick. **You have the responsibility to empower other people, share experience.** Yes you just built your business, you have run your first marathon, you just wrote a song. Now share your knowledge and experience. You have learnt from someone, be that someone to the next genius. **[Apply 2 minute rule and get shit done](http://jamesclear.com/how-to-stop-procrastinating).** I discovered this 2-minute rule not so long time ago and I love it. I don’t get dishes piling up, my email inbox is empty at most of the evenings and I feel more productive. **Talk only nice about others, there are too many bad things around.** It is very hard because humans are very emotional creatures but talking only nice about others will go a long way. **Stop collecting physical things.** All my life can be put in my backpack, I don’t have anything and I don’t regret the things I got rid of. Becoming more minimal made more time for myself. **It is hard to change everything at once.** Take small steps everyday, build a habit. I started running 2 km at the very beginning, then I increased it to 3 km and now I am running 5 km every morning. **Invest in yourself.** Eating better food, getting enough sleep, learning a certain skill, going to a gym and paying for the services or products that will make you a greater person are totally worth it. **Get enough sleep.** I used to sacrifice sleep to get more work done but I can honestly admit that getting enough sleep will make you more productive and happy. I sleep 7 hours every day. **I don’t miss school, life learning is different.** Learning from real situations, dealing with real problems and making ideas happen will teach you much more than fake projects and outdated books in school. **Inspire others.** Pushing yourself and refusing to give up are doing much more than you can think of. Inspiring people to take action towards their dreams is absolutely amazing. Most of the cases people won’t tell you that you were their inspiration but when they’ll do you’ll go crazy how happy you’ll be. If you are interested in my previous annual reviews, check my life lessons of **[2014](/blog/life-lessons-2014)**, **[2015,](/blog/life-lessons-2015)** **[2016,](/blog/life-lessons-2016)** **[2017](/blog/life-lessons-2017)**, **[2018](/blog/life-lessons-2018)**, and **[2019](/blog/life-lessons-2019)**. ]]> tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius) https://tomaslau.com/blog/permission https://tomaslau.com/blog/permission Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT tomas@tomaslau.com (Tomas Laurinavicius)