On October 14, 2018, I published my first story on HackerNoon.

Six years and 126 stories later I look back at my words through the lenses of numbers, first.

Words written: 122,410

“Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen has 119,394 words written.

I can export all of my stories as PDFs in one document. I’m thinking about “Nonsense & Hypersensibility,” as the most appropriate title.

TOTAL READING TIME GENERATED: 569,700 minutes

I’m like 200,000 minutes short of the time required to walk the full length of the Great Wall of China.

AWARDS (The Magnificent Seven plus One, better than Hateful Eight, LOL)

2020

The Winner of the HackerNoon Award “Noonies2020” for the Most Controversial Writer of the Year.

2021

The Winner of the HackerNoon Award “Noonies2021” for the Critical Thinker of the Year.

2022

The Winner of the HackerNoon Award “Noonies2022” for the Contributor of the Year- FREELANCING.

The Winner of the HackerNoon Award “Noonies2022” for the Contributor of the Year- ELON MUSK.

The Winner of the HackerNoon Award “Noonies2022” for the Critical Thinker of the Year.

The Winner of the HackerNoon Award “Noonies2022” for the Contributor of the Year- GAMING-INDUSTRY.

The Winner of the HackerNoon Award “Noonies2022” for the Contributor of the Year- MICROSOFT.

The Winner of the HackerNoon Award “Noonies2022” for the Contributor of the Year- INTERNET-CENSORSHIP.

The Writing Contest Awards

The Cybersecurity Writing Contest, July 2022: the 3rd place

The Linux Writing Contest, September 2022: the 2nd place

The Defi Writing Contest, November 2022: the 2nd place

The Decentralize-AI Writing Contest, October 2024: the 1st place

Six Stories for Six Birthday Candles

2018 - Two Years an Upwork Slave: How to Own Freelancers and Sue Those You Can’t Own

2019 - Why I Choose HackerNoon Over Medium

2020 - Is Upwork Posting Fake Jobs To Keep Freelancers Bidding? [A Deep Dive]

2021 - A Requiem for John David McAfee

2022 - Alexa dot com is DEAD: F*CK the Alternatives!

2023 - Why I Turned Down an 'HR for Happiness' Role in a Top Software Company

2024 - Breaking The UStatus Quo: Between Elon Musk's Terminus and Lex Fridman's Empire Romanus

My Top Six Memorable HackerNoon Moments

#6 When my 100th story got published on HackerNoon:

#5 When I got my first HackerNoon merch, a T-shirt:

#4 When I framed and hung pictures of my first HackerNoon Top Stories:

#3 When I stumbled upon my story in some other language than English (I sure hope I’m not mistaken, lol):

#2 When I got my first Noonie Writing Award:

#1 When I shared the most supportive tweet:

That’s all HackerNoon folks, until my next writer’s Bday or notable writing milestone. I don’t have places to be, but I have new stories to write.