Summary of 2024
It’s the beginning of February, which is the perfect time to summarize 2024. XD
I would love to share with you my achievements and failures (opportunities) from the past year.
For me, it’s a good way to work on my imposter syndrome.
Achievements
Career - IT
I was Workshop Instructor & Speaker at 3 Python Conferences.
Workshop Instructor: “MongoDB for Beginners” at PyCon Sweden (back to back) & PyCon Poland (back to back).
Speaker: “MongoDB for Beginners” & “Getting Started with Copier” at Python Summit, Warsaw.
Books
Almost consume almost 11 books in English. God Bless Audiobooks
Finished<7>:
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“Surrounded by Idiots” by Thomas Erikson. Everybody is different.
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“Can’t Hurt Me” by David Goggins. Pure Motivation.
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“Deep Work” by Cal Newport. Focus, focus, focus.
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“Atomic Habits” by James Clear. Small changes, big results.
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“How to Give Zero F*cks” by Stephen Wildish. Perfect to fight with your imposter syndrome.
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“Software Engineering at Google” by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright. Big G. Intresting.
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“Never Split the Difference” by Chris Voss. Negotiation skills.
Fragmented<4>:
- “Why We Sleep” by Matthew Walker. Maybe I will come back to it but in Native Language.
- “Architecture Patterns with Python” by Harry Percival, Bob Gregory. I will back to it when I will have more time.
- “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” by Martin Kleppmann. I will back to it when I will have more time.
- “Fundamentals of Data Engineering” by Joe Reis & Matt Housley. I will back to it when I will have more time.
Health
- Blood results are better than year ago.
- Lost 5kg.
- Ran 5km. Believe me, for my knees and condition, it was a lot.
- Stopped drinking alcohol since November.
Failures - Challenges - Opportunities - Staff to work on
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Sleep. On average, I sleep for 6 hours and 47 minutes, with a bedtime of 2:44 AM and a wake-up time of 9:31 AM.
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I didn’t finished my side projects. I need to have something in production. Take less, do more.
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I didn’t write on this blog as much as I wanted.
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Imposter Syndrome. It’s blocking me to do more.
Thanks for reading this ❤️
Love,
KK