Self-mastery is never ending work. It's a never-ending process of becoming more and more of who you are. - Eckhart Tolle
I finished my formal degree back in 2014. Since then, I've spent countless hours programming, watching video courses, and reading books and articles. I spent most of my time on web and game development, management, business development and entrepreneurship.
2026
- Spoke at DevClub.lv: Frontend Engineering in the AI Era
- Placed 5th at Cursor Hackathon Riga
- Completed Claude Code Course by Master.dev
- Completed Claude Code 101
- Completed Claude Code in Action
- Completed Introduction to Model Context Protocol
- Completed Introduction to Subagents
- Completed Introduction to Agent Skills
- Completed AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations
- Completed AI Capabilities and Limitations
- Attended Measuring Developer Productivity in Code Review
- Attended Refactoring Legacy Codebases
- Attended AI Hard Fork
- Read The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
- Read Company Of One by Paul Jarvis
- Read How Design Makes the World by Scott Berkun
- Read Same as Ever by Morgan Housel
- Read Beating the Street by Peter Lynch
- Read Learn to Earn by Peter Lynch
2025
- Attended Next.js Conf 2025
- Attended React Conf 2025
- Attended Feels Good Productivity Annual Planning Workshop by Ali Abdaal
- Studied The Fundamentals of Value
- Read The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
- Read Press Reset by Jason Schreier
- Read Blood, Sweat, and Pixels by Jason Schreier
- Read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
- Read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Read Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Read Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
- Read The Clean Coder by Robert C. Martin
- Read Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
- Read The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
- Read Feel-Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal
- Read The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia
- Read Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers
2024
- Attended Next.js Conf 2024
- Attended Feels Good Productivity Annual Planning Workshop by Ali Abdaal
- Studied React Testing Library with Jest/Vitest
- Read Building large scale web apps by Addy Osmani
- Read Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
- Read Blitzed by Norman Ohler
- Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
- Read Fundamentals Hypertrophy Program by Jeff Nippard
- Read Extra Focus by Jesse J. Anderson
- Read The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- Read Привет из детства by Mikhail Labkovsky
- Read Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
- Read Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- Read The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
- Read Showing Up by Nedd Brockmann
- Read The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho
- Read Do Hard Things by Steve Magness
- Read The Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett
- Read Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kagan
- Read Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
2023
- Spoke at DevClub.lv: Maximising performance with React code-splitting techniques
- Attended OpenAI DevDay 2023
- Attended Next.js Conf 2023
- Studied Build an AI-Powered Fullstack Next.js App
- Studied Introduction to Next.js 13+
- Studied Enterprise UI Development: Testing & Code Quality
- Studied React Native to brush up on my knowledge of the topic
- Studied How to Visualize Value
- Studied Next.js 13, App Router and Server Actions
- Studied Figma
- Read Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Read Finding Ultra by Rich Roll
- Read The 5 AM Club by Robin S. Sharma
- Read The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- Read One Minute Manager: Situational Leadership by Kenneth H. Blanchard
- Read The Art of Clear Thinking: by Hasard Lee
- Read The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
- Read Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke
- Read The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin S. Sharma
- Read The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone
- Read Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
- Read The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim
- Read Never Finished by David Goggins
- Read The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
- Read Inner Engineering by Sadhguru
- Read Start with Why by Simon Sinek
- Read Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
- Read The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt
2022
- Studied React Testing Library
- Studied Next.js
- Studied Supabase
- Studied different courses like JavaScript, Algorithms and Data Structures on FrontendMasters
- Studied Supabase Crash Course
- Attended DevClub.lv on multiple occasions to expand my knowledge on various topics like Software Development, SRE and Agile
- Attended Jamstack Conf 2022
- Attended Next.js Conf 2022
- Attended DevX Conf 2022
- Reread Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Read The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
- Read Хохот Шамана by Владимир Серкин
- Read Если с ребенком трудно by Lyudmila Petranovskaya
- Read Просто делай! Делай просто! by Oskar Hartmann
- Read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- Read On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
- Read 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers by Zeno Rocha
- Read Indistractable by Nir Eyal
2021
- Studied RTK Query
- Studied Redux Toolkit
- Studied Chakra UI
- Studied Build a Modern User Interface with Chakra UI
- Studied Permissionless Apprentice
- Studied Serverless patterns, Infrastructure as code and Introduction to Kubernetes during DevClub.lv meetup
- Attended Next.js Conf 2021
- Read После трех уже поздно by Masaru Ibuka
- Read Ура, понедельник! 10 правил для жизни с драйвом by Petter A. Stordalen
- Read Demian by Hermann Hesse
- Read You Don't Know JS: Up & Going by Kyle Simpson
- Read The Knowledge Project Ep. #18 by Naval Ravikant
- Read Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
2014 — 2020
It might take some time to gather information on things I've achieved between 2014 and 2020.
In general, I've used every opportunity and variety of resources like Codecademy, Coursera, Frontend Masters, Pluralsight, Udemy, Udacity, Egghead, Wes Bos courses, YouTube tutorials, books, etc to continue my personal growth.