Table of Contents
- 2024
- The past year
- Going through your calendar
- this is what my last year was about
- six sentences about my past year
- six questions about my past year
- the best moments
- Three of my biggest accomplishments
- Three of my biggest challenges
- Forgiveness
- Letting go
- The past year in three words
- The book of my past year
- Goodbye to your last year
- the year ahead
- The past year
2024
The past year
Going through your calendar
Go through last year’s calendar week by week. If you see an important event, family gathering, friendly get-together or a significant project, write it down here.
- January
SHITLOADS of 508 meetings, but i'm still not sure why. some kind of nextaiot thing was going on but the meetings are before that i'm introduced to the idea of microsaas, think all year about targeting it meeting with yoyo about his ev part picker idea photo walk with johnson afternoon tea with tammy at eslite hotel lunch with jake solomon lots of job interviews new years at the ji spot and uber eats photos? already negotiating rent lol little bit of cofactr work still apparently i was overwhelmed with stress already, setting up uber eats and ichefpos sales already slow lmao was inspired by john carmack and master's of doom lol planetcrafter, apparently was upset i was doing that richard distracting me aww oh dinner with framework ceo 508 bd meeting temporary new cleaner because other one like broke her leg or something? or was that later still playing baldur's gate 3 drama with favorited to get paid, what a fucking nightmare issues with zpool on server tryna download my spotify library hunting for bob's red mill alex obsession withcloudflare started looking into godot and game dev cause riley mentioned game making thing mid year i express continuing interest in serious programming and game programming tammy already fed up with charlie 508 2024 kickoff meeting we may have been undergoing a transition from slack to matrix? tammy got me awesome dinner for birthday
- February
cryptocurrency trading meeting tammy and i squeeze in nice dinner bookings cryptocurrency project kickoff? occassionally working at restaurant dinner with charlie's family at awesome chinese restaurant[ so many interviews starting to worry about making enough money at the restaurant already lol tried out cooking my meals for weight loss and saving money, that didn't last long starting to do dishes nightly at ji spot read unreasonable hospitality i guess cryptocurrency project was actually just getting started? tammy's making costco trips for the ji spot woah 101kg on weight finally hear back from david ji spot tasting menu read farseer tammy and i had an yilan trip? muwhahaha pirate headspace work on running average calorie app deploy inkspot, foss figma alternative looking into switching to codeberg apparently money situation bad enough where tammy's asking about it regularly going to morning market valentine's day i take shift from tammy looking at wiki, open project and etc for coop motorcycle for maokong for coworking situation get youtube on jellyfin make up workday post for commonwealth magazine yanshui beehive fireworks? or at least editing the photos for it we're watching ham at some pont cool mliberation leftist festival thing
- March
looks like lots of calls with potential 508 members still in couple's counseling word camp asia cryptocurrency trading underway make it to the only book meetup i ever made it to that year, rushed there after washing dishes job interviews zach ormonde contract kevin lands? dune :o watching shogun demand letter sent to favorited amos leaves taiwan looks like i was feeling undisciplined listening to history of videogames met with david tesler to get 5k out of him, fucker. at least i haven't heard back since closed lakos the same day, nice got covid was at 97 kilos… ugh. deployed coolify wordpress sundance asia project lots of notes about richard :[ started looking at cohere growthexpertz tells us about clutch.co some more jovono looks like lots of self frustration and hatred at self discipline, anger at not going to gym or whatever, wow so much more chill now lol but same behavior wrote some big taiwan plus thing woah, started on ritalin again towards the end of the month looks like i was wasting a lot of time on hacker news tammy having anxiety attacks
- April
completely filling my days with 508 meetings limin and them come to town bubble photoshoot with sean, never got him those photos, oh well rosa comes to town the scooter accident must have happened this month then go to wulai with her and kevin and tech gold event, i think that's where i found the wallet on the ground beer crawl and some serious job interviews japan trip with kevin and michael!! oh yeah huge earthquake in hualien spending more time at the ji spot, frustrated cause i could be coding instead fuckin with doom emacs too HELLA procrastination and guilt about it head massages with tammy restaurant killing my social life family talking about coming in september, mom doing calls for interviews starting to get worried about money, applying shitload jobs climbing with kevin and morgan and michael and nick meet with rosa and kevin and foss julienne guy at tea shop oh yeah rosa's mom too lots of akihabara in japan oh yeah and got 3ds
- May
g0v summit met with spin fashion in person, lol at that shangri-la "cafe far eastern" reservation, possibly afternoon tea with tammy? a shitload of 508 meeetings, i wonder what happened to all those people? wordpress discussion with mark more job interviews vision 0 bike ride, yikes, i remember having to strobe that, so fuckin dangerous fuckin like, 40 508 meetings, what the hell man party at teddy's house still meeting with devin commune project spicy chicken event, salad investigation meanwhile heavily recruiting for spin fashion, maybe that's why so many meetings gold card career talk? i fuckin bombed that dude oh, hacker house ai event, is that where I first met thor? oh first signs of google potential contract, shame that never happened paul cryptography project kickoff that time i put cones to block off fake sober and got hambaagu with the angela crew tammy was starting to feel hella resentful that she was spending all her time at the restaurant and i was living life. odd time libreadery with tammy, that was nice we got the jasmine plant the weird white guy outside our apartment saying "fei ji chang!!!" while jumping oh i was doing some cofactr taiwan protests at legislative yuan the aurora palestine flag incident battling the restaurant rat oh maaaan i was 93kg then :(((( hookah with marcin and them i do frontend for crypto trading app oh holy fuck the irs finally deposited, that was game changing for my money situation keep writing about being unfocused fuckin with totk and 3ds
- June
computex! furiosa more 508 meetings i think i went to play board games at that weird guy with the sick ass apartment more job interviews shawnee going away potluck, i was late cause restaurant. had tammy quit by now? trivia at ji spot jesus, still meeting with devin bidart bros i think tammy went to gaoxiong with limin really worried about restaurant still doing cofactr work, that's nice more bizdev meetings with 508 still questioning ritalin lol starting to question how long i can try to restaurant + code already stressed about cryptocurrency project oooh i got the miyoo mini, that's fun setting up commandbar for cofactr
- July
still 508 meetings? or interviews? cal.com meetings lol podcast, i should go listen to that at some point tammy organizes for me that haircut that took too long. nice massage though the disaster training week, how useless! more interviews first demo of crypto project tryna get lakos to pay with not CC lol
- August
foss conference start touring people for dingran? or we're looking for another location? more interviews another teddy lai party sapporo with tammy! discussions around switching gold card community from slack to something else oh we had that useless ji spot market neon white at michael's night we're doing cash runs for the ji spot straight from my bank account ugh maybe the restaurant is slowing down? I had a day of just multiple videogames and tv shows yeah it was closing time, pancake and eggs at angela's oh yeah we had cool airport hotel before flight to sapporo but this is also when i took richard to the lizard hotel which probably is what killed him :( tiger air flight horrible vote on riley's game in game jam, in the end happened without me the vote abroad conversations start happening go to lots of dessert places in osaka oh i did some mapillary, that's fun played metal slug oh my white leather shoes were fuckin bad with my feet aware of post restaurant trauma oh yeah cool old village as our last sapporo thing and the dope hotel with the tiny onsen was being fat AF on sapporo damn my feet were fucked up in sapporo regret not bringing big headphones on flight playing helldivers and wow, fun richard, yay
- September
charlie's been out of town since mid august woah parents move here! river tracing with tammy thomas tammy, that was cool, nice to know i'm still somewhat fit interviews kick off again in earnest tara's bday dinner, my parents came to that, wow helldivers on the calendar lol the plumber comes and fixes a bunch of our shit looking at apartments with my family a bbq my family ended up missing holy shit so many interviews reactwise interview on the 17th!! reactwise coding interview on the last shift at the ji spot see the hongshulin apartment late in the month tammy and i had a nice dinner
mom's already doing interviews, i have 3 in a day i had a vue takehome assignment? jeez spend an hour waitig for cops to come get some car still in my retro videogame phase aww kevin michael game dates while kevin's in the usa go to wulai with the family, and david and alice. rain huh, lots of notes about vue i was thinking i was depressed apparently tryna get the crkbd keyboard working presidential debate lol oh restaurant was still going without me a bit and charlie and i had the falling out visit daily sun, kc's school back to playing cyberpunk, probably found the better interpolater mom got sick af wow, i was actually going on a couple jogs getting calendar set up for 508 lots of For All Mandkind still on twitter, yikes oh fuck that weird church guy playing space marine with david chat with thor about hackerhouse most of the time helping family, i'm stressed about not getting word done. My productivity probably wasn't that high, no wonder eric was thinking he could outcode me
- October
i think richard dies early in the month thailand and japan trip! amos is so right wing. sucks. spin fashion falls apart with echo mostly just reactwise oooh was addicted to reddit and hackernews again latest vlad taltos no wonder my productivity at reactwise was low… thailand trip too read polostan annoyed at being fat wedding boring AF first inklings that eric doesn't like me on the 16th cool communes girl in japan stressed about work already see alex in japan! tons of onsen in japan that weird burning man bar night where the japanese girls flirt with me and i skip the club aunt sara dies at some point oooh eric's "make it work, make it right, make it fast." Weiiiird mom gets a steamdeck both yuzu and the other one area dead now
did like, one game of dnd
- November
cancelled dnd duck lunch with dujuan tammy birthday party! dumpling art buffet with kevin then i get sick af, covid? meet taipei startup festival simple kaffa with family colette comes! big family thanksgiving, so fun, korean dating sim lol
oooo eric's stupid nextjs rewrite, i was blocked on him for that back into fountain pens, must have had the jesse bar night at some point, or last month nci sushi with tammy, disappointing but fun crappy intersection report
started reading plato's republic start talking to yoyo about recruiting for him at some point, reread anathem and have a whole analog revolution and get obsessed with the long now and register for tidal thinking i'll pirate from them lol starting to notice eric sucks oh yeah briefly got into Leverage
- December
museum date with tammy, and then the nice cafe after! and villa.like massage hot pot with kevin ayy dinner with jay and then same place with kevin and tammy next day lol hackerhouse in gaoxiong gino comes! monitor breaks ugh rechao? oh the fuckin chaotic one? xmas coffee with thomas colette arives for christmas see wicked colette birthday dinner the laundries come D: rolling mud festival new years with laundries and michael at taipei 101 hating eric begins sometime this month
this is what my last year was about
We live our lives through distinct but interconnected aspects. Take a look at the areas below and ask yourself what the significant events in each of them were. Write down your answers.
- Personal life, family
- Career, studies
- friends, community
- relaxation, hobbies, creativity
- physical health, fitness
- mental health, self-knowledge
- habits that define you
- cardio and lifting fell off hard
- added staying off reddit/twitter etc and am very successful
- moved youtube to be a hosted service and helped greatly with youtube addiction
- all habits seemed to die hard in july
- sticking around 60% for self actualization
- stretching around 80%
- meditation, fell off, allegedly around 57%
- journaling completely fell off, 40%, but recovered hard at end of year
- studying chinese fell off, but recovered in september, i cleared my flashcards, then fell again
- jogging was actually good at beginning of year then fell off all year
- bed 10 and wake up 7, lol nope
- no couch, pretty good, 80%
- weigh, good, near 100% most of the year
- 5m shower good beginning of year, fell off, 50
- wow backup everything in the dumps
- no youtube, pretty good, now at 90%
- no reddit and twitter was way down all year and recovered drastically in sep/dec
- no phone in bed, abysmal
- keg all over the place but 50% hovering
- flashcards, lol. so much for that experiment
- cardio and lifting fell off hard
- a better tomorrow
six sentences about my past year
six questions about my past year
the best moments
Describe the greatest and most memorable, joyful moments from last year. Draw them on this sheet. How did you feel? Who was there with you? What were you doing? What kind of smells, sounds or tastes do you remember?
- That museum and cafe date with tammy
it was kinda cold and i found some guy's camera, and the coffee made me jittery
- Sapporo street, first night, getting ice cream with tammy
finally free of the restaurant
- getting the reactwise gig
- getting the IRS check
- kevin visiting
getting tea that first night, chilled out, he was sick lol bike ride towards the end
- japan trip with kevin and michael
walking around akihabara, walking every night in shinjuku street photography
- yanshui beehive fireworks
- the legislative yuan protests
- the holiday coffee at thomas'
thomas tammy tammy, really fuckin nummy german snacks
- riversside bbq with lots of friends
- rereading anathem
Three of my biggest accomplishments
Three of my biggest challenges
- List your three biggest challenges from last year here.
- Who or what helped you overcome these challenges?
- What have you learned about yourself by overcoming these challenges?
- i have limited energy
- i need guardrails to stay focused and on task
- over time i was much kinder to myself about lack of discipline, not sure why
- i need to practice emotions, i'm practiced at intellectual engagement
- i'm somewhat forgetful of basic shit like react basics or whatever
- i'm pretty resilient and capable to do restaurant, 508, and cofactr at the same time
compare to tammy who fell to pieces
- i have limited energy
Forgiveness
Did anything happen during the past year that still needs to be forgiven? Deeds or words that made you feel bad? Or are you angry with yourself ? Write it down here. Do yourself good by forgiving.
Letting go
Is there anything else you need to say? Is there anything you have to let go of before you can start your next year? Draw or write, then think about it and let it all go.
The past year in three words
Choose three words to define your past year.
The book of my past year
A book or a movie was made about your past year. What title would you give it?
Goodbye to your last year
bye aunt sara and richard and various fish
the year ahead
dare to dream big
> What does the year ahead of you look like? Why will it be great? What would happen
Reactwise goes really well, they fire Eric and we get great valuations and success. I get time to study cool programming things, focus a bit on 508, and do something with all the pedestrian rights stuff I'm filming. I stay engaged with weight loss and my journal and have something great to show for it by the end of the year. Tammy and I figure the stuff out with the stuff, and I've read and retained a lot of books.
This is what my next year will be about
Take a look at the areas of your life and decide your goals for each of them for the next year. Put those goals on the page—this is the first step towards realizing them.
- personal life, family
- career, studies
- friends, community
- relaxation, hobbies, creativity
- physical health, fitness
- mental health, self-knowledge
- habits that define you
- much better habit participation across the board
- absolutely 0 mindless engagement in reddit, twitter, HN, or discord or other analogues
- clear out the mandarin flashcards and keep them cleared, start adding new words again
more than daily usage apparently necessary
- hardcore OMAD
- lots of journaling, mindfullness, recording
but do it in a way that's clear, useful, usable, so i can actually use this stuff for reflection, or search through it for when i need certain info
- much better habit participation across the board
- a better tomorrow
Magical triplets for the year ahead
- I will love these three things about myself.
- I am ready to let go of these three things.
- I want to achieve these three things the most.
- These three people will be my pillars during rough times.
- I will dare to discover these three things.
- I will have the power to say no to these three things.
- I will make my surroundings cozy with these three things.
- I will do these three things every morning.
- I will pamper myself with these three things regularly.
- I will visit these three places.
- I will connect with my loved ones in these three ways.
- I will reward my successes with these three presents.
Six sentences about my next year
Secret wish
Majillionaire that can unlock freedom for myself and my family and friends. I "wake up," maybe from my reading or something, significant revelation in anarchism / engineering.