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date: '2025-11-01'
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## General

### Identity appreciation

I bought my favorite books as softcovers / hardcovers (instead of owning just the digital EPUB files). This way, I can glance at them to get reminded about my own path at any time during the day.

### Pathless Path

I supported Paul Millerd and bought his limited edition hardcover of Pathless Path. This is the very book that gave me the needed permission to build things my own way more than 2 years ago.

### Facing resistance

I needed to look face to face into the eyes of Resistance. Revisiting The War of Art book highlights was helpful. A force that kept me from doing the work for another 1 and a half weeks after I came back from my vacation. Then, I launched my new exciting project that I talk about below.

## free with tech

### 1st payout

For the first time in my life, I got paid by Apple instead of me buying more products from them. To a certain degree, this has validated my indie hacker identity and makes me want to keep building my way forward.

### Journal Companions

I launched a new initiative [journalcompanions.com](https://journalcompanions.com) It is a concept I've been exploring through my apps [fwt.wtf/axis](https://fwt.wtf/axis) & [fwt.wtf/joex](https://fwt.wtf/joex) Interesting fact: all of these apps kept coming back and knocking in my brain and I am proud that I finally pushed through and made it all real as a part of broader philosophy for living free with tech.

## Work with me

### Have an interesting idea in mind?

I am proficient with React.js & TypeScript. Reach out to me via email: contact (at) samuelpitonak (dot) com

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