What’s the most randomly successful thing you’ve ever done? Could be work related, could be a personal project/hobby.

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I ended up replatforming onto Ghost, threw some marketing $$ at Twitter, and blew up

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Wow, congrats! Drop the blog URL, I'd love to see it!! Mine is less lucrative for sure, but I sort of stumbled into sourdough baking and now I've got a great side gig where I sell bread at farmer's markets and to local coffee shops. I've managed to do it while keeping my day job (because I'm remote) and it brings in a bit of money but is mostly just fun and I get to meet cool people doing it

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Very cool! I tried my hand at the blog back when, and never really had a ton of success, but definitely was fun and I still learned a lot doing it. Something else I had gotten into was knitting and have made a ton of blankets for the family which has been nice to pass something homemade on.

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Got the brand i was working with just for a summer into Hamptons Fashion Week!

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