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  "title": "2023 Review",
  "updatedAt": "2023-12-31T00:00:00.000Z",
  "description": "End of year review",
  "publishedAt": "2023-12-31T00:00:00.000Z",
  "textContent": "At the beginning of 2023, I set some goals for myself.\nHere are those goals and how the year turned out.\n\nLearn a new word each week (50%)\n\nClear and effective communication is important to me.\nMy thought process was that I could improve as a communicator if I further developed my vocabulary.\nI also find it particularly satisfying to conjure the perfect word to describe a situation, experience, etc.\nEach Monday, I would find a new word and record it, it's part of speech and definition in Obsidian.\nPeriodically, throughout the week, I would review the new word and all previous words using spaced repetition.\nThis approach was relatively effective at first, but not so effective over the year.\nIn total, I learned 24 new words.\nAbout halfway through the year, I would get a reminder on Monday to add a new word to the list, and the timing was bad.\nI would put it off, then I fell behind and never caught back up.\nI could have changed up when I scheduled this reminder, but I didn't.\nI'm not sure if I will try something like this again.\nI like the prospect of learning new words, but I think I'd prefer to do so less is a rote memorization kind of way and more in a “search and discover cool words” kind of way.\n\nRead a book each month (25%)\n\nIn 2022, I read about a book a month from January through September, but after September I stopped.\nI aspired to get back to a similar cadence in 2023, but was unsuccessful.\nI read 3 books in 2023.\nI didn't discover anything that really pulled me in, and I didn't make much of a habit of it.\nI love getting wrapped up in a good book so this is something I will continue to pursue, likely in a different form, next year.\n\nWrite 40 blog posts (100%)\n\nAt the time of this writing, I've written 42 medium or long blog posts, not including any daily entries.\nI've had a public blog since 2013, and given my historical lack of consistency with writing, this goal was a stretch.\nAs I've begun experimenting with language models, it's been exciting to learn and summarize my findings.\nI took this excitement and directed it into summarizing other technical learnings as well.\nI typically write one of three types of entries.\nLonger form posts, a “today I learned” style post or a daily log of something interesting I'm thinking about or recently read.\n\nMove to NYC (100%)\n\nAt the end of 2022 decided to move to New York.\nWe did this in 2023.\n\nLearn to juggle four balls (10%)\n\nI learned to juggle three balls in 2022.\nI aspired to learn to juggle four in 2022, but was unsuccessful.\nI didn't practice the new pattern with enough consistency.\nHowever, I did conceptually learn what the pattern was, so I'm giving myself a bit of credit for that.\nTowards the end of the year, I did knock off the rust and continue refining the three ball pattern.\nI think I will try and learn a few three ball tricks before attempting four balls, but I don't think this will be too big of a priority for me.\nI've been more focused on building technical skills lately.\nLearning to juggle was a validating experience.\nIt's motivating to see yourself improve at a new skill.\n\nI enjoyed setting and working towards these goals and intend to set new ones in 2024.",
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