Hard Things

An (incomplete) list of Hard Things I have done. Inspired by Proof You Can Do Hard Things.

• ~ 100 km hike in Denmark over 5 days. Slept in tent and shelters. Pretty heavy pack. (Hærvejen from Viborg to Fjerritslev.) (Spring 2025)
• Worked a job 5+ years
• Worked out 20-30 minutes regularly most mornings for more than a year
• Started climbing (bouldering) 2-3 times a week
• Spent a Sunday night in a shelter at ~ -10C (Winter 2025)
• Reached an early “financial freedom” goal: be able to take 2-3 months off every year (fully supported by my portfolio earnings)
• Wrote “A Simple Guide to Financial Freedom”
• Hiked 3 days in Jotunheimen National Park with a bit of snow at elevation. Slept one night under a tarp and two in huts. (Fall 2024)
• Slept under a tarp in a snowstorm in Rondane National Park, Norway. Hiked onwards the next day. (Fall 2024)
• 3 week solo trip to Norway in the fall of 2024
• Wild camping/backpacking on Hardangervidda in Norway. Hiked 5 days from Finse to Geilo. 3 days without seeing anybody else. (Early Summer 2024)
• Tracked my expenses and savings rate for two years
• Wild camping in a tent in the Swiss Alps
• Reached out to 100+ builders
• Ran my second Marathon (Spring 2023)
• Lived out of a backpack (no apartment for ~ 6 months) (Fall 2022)
• Ran about 40km in the mountains in one day (New Zealand, Fall 2022)
• Solo trip to New Zealand (+ Australia and Dubai) (~ 3 months. Fall 2022)
• Built a web3 website
• Created 55+ videos
• Wrote Think Week 2021
• Ran my first Marathon
• Walked ~ 140 km coast to coast across Denmark in 3,5 days (and slept under a tarp two of the nights and a shelter the final one)
• Winter solo camping (minus 6 degrees, snow) (2021)
• First solo camping trip
• Got a job
• Master’s degree in Computer Science
• Wrote 300 days in a year (2018)
• Finished my first Adventure Race (in 2nd place). Overnight race.
• Danish Champion in Orienteering (H20 Relay)