Celebrating my one-year layoff anniversary

Celebrating my one-year layoff anniversary Jun 29, 2026 Human-written Exactly one year ago, while visiting Riga, I got laid off. Now, I’m back in Riga to celebrate the anniversary and to write this blog post. I worked at the company for a bit more than four years. Near the end, I had a feeling that things were not going that great, so I started preparing for the worst. I’m very happy the layoff happened. Here’s that story. Honeymoon phase I joined the company in early 2021, before we had any customers. What we did have was investor money, a big pre-launch waitlist, a strong design team, and technical problems I was excited to work on, including collaborative realtime rich text editing, offline-first sync, polished UI details, animations, and more. Our website won multiple design awards.

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