Tag: Year End Reflections
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2025 in Books
STATS: 19 books18 Audiobooks1 Kindle booksMany unfinished books2.3x listening speed0 Chinese booksF in Diversity score (1 Female Author) 2025 was not an enjoyable year when it came to reading. I simply did not feel the desire to read. I was often distracted by the work at our school, and then by our move to the…
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2025 in Life
2025 was the transition year, or the watershed year. Looking at it through the woo-woo 7-year-cycle lens, 2025 was the end of the 7th cycle and the start of the 8th cycle. So if this 7-year thingy is legit, 2025 was a significant year. And it was. I left Casetify in January and returned to…
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2024 In Random Things
Hamilton and musicalsJing’s continuous evolutionMom’s healthTrump, Musk, and Big TechAITide Free and Gentle Hamilton and MusicalsWe went to the UK in the summer. I came back after a week, and they stayed another three weeks. It was a sunny and eventful summer. Jing went to two summer schools. One was an art-related day camp, and…
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2024 in Books
STATS: 44 books33 Audiobooks11 Kindle books3 unfinished books2.3x listening speed0 Chinese booksE in Diversity score (7 Female Authors) CATEGORIES: Business & Money – 11Biographies & Memoirs – 9Science & Math – 6Politics & Social Sciences – 6Self-Help – 5Literature & Fiction – 3History – 2Christian Books & Bibles – 1 Awards: Most Enjoyable:Disrupting the Game:…
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2024 in Podcasts
I love this annual ritual. I love looking back at all the things I have listened to. I love remembering how the year went by. And boy, what a year 2024 was – all the elections around the world, the Olympics, the VR glasses, the unstoppable rise of AI … And July and August were…
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2023 in Random Moments
A Year of Taylor Swift, Divorces, Job Search, Losing To Screens, and Lifting Lighter Weights. In 2023, I stumbled upon a discovery that threw my fitness routine into chaos. For over a decade, I had followed a strict workout regimen, but a three-week hiatus this year taught me more about my body than all those…
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2023 in Books
STATS: 29 books20 Audiobooks8 Kindle books2 Real book3 unfinished books2x: The speed I listened to audiobooks2 Chinese booksE in Diversity score (4 Female Authors) CATEGORIES: 8 History & Culture3 Science Fictions3 Thrillers2 Environment6 Biographies & Memoirs1 Politics1 Coming-of-Age Fiction3 Health & Parenting2 Business BOOK OF THE YEAR: What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies,…
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2023 in Podcasts
Fun stats, trends, my idols in the podcasting universe, my answer to the question “Should you create a podcast,” and top episodes
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2022 in Screw Ups
Stumbling towards the meaning of life.