Issue #007 | 🔗 Read on my website | ⏱️ ~6.5min read
💡 Discover insights on life, work, personal growth, tech, & more from Naya Moss
👋🏾 Hey there Fren! How are you? It's been a while, huh? I've been heads down, still trying to rebuild my life here in the U.S. It feels like the days just blur together sometimes, but I wanted to pause and come back here—to you all—because this space has always felt like a grounding point for me.
🌟 Life Updates
Okay, I'm going to get this over with so we can move on 😅. I'm not sharing extensive life updates this time (or maybe for a short while) because, to be completely transparent, things are much harder than they were six months ago and even a year ago. It's not a wonderful or soaring time. In fact, it's been the exact opposite. I've really struggled to find positive things to talk about.
My life feels like I'm in a movie mix of: The Truman Show, Shutter Island, and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari all in one. And if you have ever spent time around narcissist or people that are mentally unwell and refuse to get help, you know how maddening that can be. 🙃
💼 Anyway, as for work, my last contract ended in May. I go to Work Force 1 hiring events, they tell me how great my experience is, take my resume, say they are setting me up for an interview with an employer, blah blah then nothing.
💬 Speaking of work, there's a quote, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." I've tried so many things to find FTE. It feels like I'm in a hamster wheel and nothing is working.
🚀 30 Projects in 30 Weeks
So here's my latest experiment: a 30 Projects in 30 Weeks challenge. The whole point is to take action and rebuild my life, deep learn AI more, have fun, bring in some cash flow, etc.
I've already built 30+ projects over the past 6ish months. But they all live on my laptop. I'm putting the pressure on myself to refine, share, and get them out there. By the end of March 2026, my hope is that at least one of these projects will be strong enough to sustain me financially and provide a solid foundation for the future. A clean room & food daily.
🤔 I've been building for years, but I've realized a big mistake: leaning too heavily into D2C (direct-to-consumer) and I don't really talk to folks and do outreach because of social anxiety. D2C is also really hard in my opinion when you don't have a validated idea or physical product. Therefore, my real focus over the 30 weeks is shifting toward B2B offerings, perhaps doing half and half.
🌱 Becoming a Namos Labs Founding Member
I had chatted with some of you, as well as other indie hackers in this space, and we came up with a great idea: Founding Members. These are folks who are believers and want to make micro-investments into the applications I'm building.
The truth is, I don't have friends or family who can bankroll a seed round. But I know how to code, I've gotten great with AI enough to teach, I've shipped a few things actual people have used, and I want to finally work on the original idea of Namos Labs, a studio of human-centric work and apps.
Supporter Tiers:
- $99 - 1yr access to 3-5 apps
- $249 - 1 year access to up to 8 apps
- $499 - 2 years access to up to 10 apps
You get access worth over $1-2K+!
📝 Recent Writing
- 📦 Refusing the Mold: Initial thoughts on Isolation, Nonconformity & Cost of Thinking Freely
- 🧠 Are Quick AI Answers Making Us Forget How to Think?
- 🎨 5 Creative Ways to Practice Interoception at Work Using AI
- 🧠 Why Emotional Intelligence Matters in AI Conversations
- 🧠 How I Use AI and Self-Awareness to Support Continuous Emotional Growth
📚 Readers Corner
- 🤖 Empire of AI - Karen Hao delivers a behind-the-scenes examination of OpenAI's rise
- 💬 Supercommunicators - Charles Duhigg reveals the science behind breakthrough conversations
- 🧠 Super Thinking - Gabriel Weinberg explores mental models from diverse fields
- 🌱 The Longevity Plan - John Day shares seven lessons from China's Longevity Village
Thank you for reading and being part of this journey with me. Have a wonderful day, evening, or night wherever you are. And always be kind! 🌈
Best,
Naya
