Every year, I take the time to reflect on the previous year and set goals for the coming year!
2024 Year In Review
Related post: goals for 2024
This year, we welcomed our second daughter, Carmen, into our family. I chose to set monthly goals for the year, since babies in their first year of life tend to need a lot. It turns out this was both a great idea and got derailed halfway through the year, as you’ll see below.
January — Write code
I set a goal of writing code 10/31 days in January. I started a NES emulator, worked through part of an old advent of code, wrote an interpreter, and did a few cryptopals exercises
February — Watch 13 movies
I watched:
- Across the Spiderverse
- Into the Spiderverse (rewatched)
- Apollo 13 (rewatched)
- How to Train your Dragon
- Happy Feet
- Glengarry Glenn Ross
- Suzume (すずめの戸締まり)
- My Neighbor Totoro (rewatched)
- Paris is Burning
- House of Games
- Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room
- Moneyball
- The Last Unicorn
March — Setup home lab
I set up a home lab in the basement, including a remote gaming rig. I also designed and fabricated a PCB to allow my smart home control of dumb IR devices
April — Bike 2x/week
Lots of Zwift!
May — Write 3 blog post
I only ended up writing one
June — Read 2 books
I read only one — The Narrow Road Between Desires
July — Take 4 Japanese lessons
はい、終わりました！
August — Take advantage of Montana outdoors
This was going very well - in fact I was taking a quick mountain bike ride after work when…
It turns out the ground is a lot harder than my shoulder and the tuberosity of my humerus was ripped off (an avulsion fraction). This put a damper on August, and I also took off September to heal.
October — Do the NYT crossword every day
Complete!
November — Spend as little as possible
We used this as a good reset. Doing free activities, not eating out, using more of the groceries in our pantry, and not ordering random stuff on Amazon. This was helpful and so far has led to an overall change in our habits
December — Do 3 woodworking projects
I made a number of Christmas presents!
2025 Personal Goals
{To be finished}