I love 30 day sprints. They are not too much commitment. They keep me active, I get to create something and have a sense of light-weight ritual. They also have made me a bit better at the thing I pick-up doing over the month given I have to do it daily, without miss.

This year, there were two such sprints:

1. Worked out for 60 days straight as a part of Design team challenge (Dec 2023 - Jan 2024)

2. Did Blogtober as an Inktober 2024 spin-off where I wrote a blog post for 31 days (Oct 2024)

I have a running list of 100+ side-project ideas but in the next six months, I am going to pick up:

1. 30 days of drumming — It's been really since I played drums properly. Lost the regular practice. Getting a teacher soon to bring discipline and practice daily.

2. 30 days of Shapr3d — Will draw concepts of day-to-day product improvements and hopefully some cool stuff too!

3. 30 days of website improvement — Fixing & even doing new stuff on this site either gets postponed or in the never-ending wait of a massive redesign. Instead of that, I'll time bound the refresh and do a bit of improvement continuously. Not sure which month though!

4. 101 tips for young product designers — This is a 2024 revised edition of the popular 88 tips for young product designers.

5. A visual explainer book — WIP. More on that later.

FYI, I'm also going to be less frequent in blogging until the end of the year. However, there are about 200 blog posts published here. I'm sure you might find something useful. And when you do, share it ahead!

Thx