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+title: 2024 Year in Review
+date: 2024-12-28
+tags: [Career, Productivity]
+excerpt: Reflecting on 2024 - the projects I built, lessons I learned, and goals for 2025. A year of growth, challenges, and accomplishments.
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+---
+
+# 2024 Year in Review!
+
+As 2024 comes to a close, I wanted to take some time to reflect on the year. It's been a year of significant growth, both professionally and personally.
+
+## Professional Highlights
+
+### Projects
+
+This year, I worked on several exciting projects:
+
+**E-commerce Platform**: Led the frontend architecture for a new e-commerce platform serving 100k+ daily users. We achieved a 40% improvement in page load times through careful optimization.
+
+**Design System**: Built a comprehensive design system from scratch, complete with documentation and Storybook. This is now used across 5 different products.
+
+**Open Source**: Made my first significant open source contributions! Contributed to several Bun-related projects and created a few small utilities that others found useful.
+
+### Skills Developed
+
+- **Performance Optimization**: Learned a ton about web performance, Core Web Vitals, and how to actually make sites fast
+- **System Design**: Started thinking more about architecture and scalability
+- **TypeScript**: Became much more proficient with advanced TypeScript patterns
+- **Testing**: Finally built a solid testing practice
+
+## Personal Growth
+
+### Writing
+
+Started this blog! Writing has helped me:
+- Clarify my thinking
+- Learn more deeply
+- Connect with others in the community
+
+### Work-Life Balance
+
+Made a conscious effort to improve work-life balance:
+- Implemented a hard stop at 6 PM
+- Started exercising regularly (3x per week)
+- Picked up reading again (finished 12 books!)
+
+## Challenges
+
+Not everything was smooth sailing:
+
+**Burnout**: Hit a rough patch in Q2 where I was working too much. Learned the importance of rest and boundaries.
+
+**Imposter Syndrome**: Still struggles with this occasionally, but getting better at recognizing it and pushing through.
+
+**Saying No**: Learned that saying no to some opportunities is necessary to say yes to the right ones.
+
+## Lessons Learned
+
+1. **Quality > Quantity**: Better to do fewer things well than many things poorly
+2. **Ask for Help**: Nobody knows everything, and asking for help is a strength
+3. **Document Everything**: Future you will thank present you
+4. **Take Breaks**: Rest isn't laziness - it's necessary for sustained performance
+5. **Community Matters**: Connecting with other developers has been invaluable
+
+## Goals for 2025
+
+Looking ahead to 2025:
+
+### Professional
+- Contribute to a major open source project
+- Speak at a local meetup or conference
+- Learn Rust (for real this time)
+- Build and launch a side project
+
+### Personal
+- Write 24 blog posts (2 per month)
+- Read 20 books
+- Maintain exercise routine
+- Learn to cook 10 new recipes
+
+### Learning
+- Deep dive into system design
+- Master web performance
+- Learn more about databases
+- Get better at writing
+
+## Thank You
+
+Thanks to everyone who supported me this year - colleagues, friends, family, and the online tech community. Looking forward to 2025!
+
+What were your highlights from 2024? What are you looking forward to in 2025?
+