All the things to review from 2024.
Yearly Review 2024
Achievements
- Professional:
- Attended the JP Morgan Health Conference in January.
- Launched the [Expose AI], [Omacare], [TravelMap] and [gensh] tools.
- Hosted the Meritt AI Security Hackathon, which was well-received.
- Worked on and improved my understanding of AI and its applications, and do a mini-bootcamp
- Travel:
- Traveled to Japan with my niece and Aarnik.
- Attended Burning Man and participated in the Lake Tahoe bike ride.
- Spent a week in Hawaii in October.
- Relationships:
- Hosted friends for Thanksgiving.
- Started dating and made progress in personal relationships.
- Spent meaningful time with family, including nieces and nephews.
- PersonalGrowth:
- Improved strength training and running consistency.
- Read 24 books and increased consumption of educational blogs and channels.
- Began learning Japanese via Duolingo.
- Experimented with creative cooking projects with family.
Adventures
- Trips: Tahoe, San Diego, Japan, Mt Langley, Seattle, Hawaii
- Hikes: Mt Langley, Honolulu
- Runs: San Leandro Half Marathon
Finance
- Investment Report
- Stocks: Details on purchases, sales, and returns
- Cash: Interest returns
- Cash Flow Report: Overview of income and expenses
Creative Pursuits
- Reading: Books and poetry read this year
- Writing: Reviews, news articles, blogs, and poetry
- Art: Infinity mirror project, Motorcycle jacket design
Personal Growth
- Health: Details on physical and mental well-being
- Dates: Reflections on relationships
- Conferences: Don’t Die Conference
- Courses & Hackathons: Omacare Project
- Skills
- Solved a Rubik’s cube
- Piano progress
- Japanese language improvement
- Swimming lessons
- Things I learnt About LLMs
Technology & Software
Music
- Genres & Favorites
- Meditation: Ave Mari Stella, Beautiful Chorus, […]
- Deep House: […] BeatPort
- Bansuri: Ragas
Social Connections
- Friends: New friendships in 2024
Analysis & Insights
- Trades Review: All trades made this year
- Timeline Maps:
- History of U.S. businessmen
- History of science
- History of computer science
Planning for 2025
- Goals:
- Buy a multi-family house (San Francisco, Fremont)
- Start a company with a cofounder
- Health:
- Establish a consistent sleep schedule, ensuring I wake up by 10 a.m. at the latest.
- Continue practicing meditation, yoga, and maintaining physical fitness.
- Work:
- Enhance work fulfillment and productivity.
- Regularly curate and update a monthly log for work, finances, and progress tracking.
- Improve knowledge management using tools like Obsidian or digital organization systems.
- Creativity:
- Develop a stronger sense of creativity and expression, particularly in poetry.
- Consistently create and curate creative projects and ideas.
- Family:
- Plan family trips and dedicate intentional time with nieces and nephews.
- Strategically schedule travels to balance work and leisure effectively.
- Education:
- Expand learning through curated educational channels and books.
- Increase focus on building structured learning routines and integrating new knowledge.
- Finance:
- Address lingering uncertainties around vehicles and other logistical concerns.
- Set clear objectives for financial planning and investment strategies.
Closing Thoughts
- Looking back at a fulfilling year and planning for an even brighter future.