Remote Year, Cape Town, Mexico City, Oaxaca, Taiwanese guy, boss leaving, job search stress and anxiety, great job bad career, best Thailand trip with CH, best australia trip with MK, Covid, flu, sister moving to east coast, niece and nephew fun, Botswana epic, solo central California trip, was sick a lot, missed GDC, cough cough cough, San Miguel de Allende, Sabrina and GT, Mendocino camping, wisteria house, CC coworker who left but is amazing, lots of Mexico, Etereo, company merger, rented out Sac house, no more drives to Sacramento, PODCASTS, Guo Pei, Joan Mitchell, LA
Overall this year will not be missed. One thing I should worry about is I was sick a lot this year, more than I ever have been. It’s hindered a lot of things around work. My career hasn’t been so amazing either - every 1-2 years I get anxiety about my next step and it’s so frustrating.
My mind grew a lot however. I can see the cards people are holding, and most of the time they are not as good as the individual would like you to think they are. I figured out that people I thought were smart were actually just confident, and that being smart and being confident are not the same thing. My favorite example is one person who just repeats what smart ppl say so that person can ingest some of that halo effect of sounding smart (but isn’t actually)
Might be a byproduct of me getting older, but “I realize I am way doper than other people” is a big resounding realization for me. The world does not hold itself to high moral standards as I wish. But the other realization I had was that everyone around me can stoop low, but I will continue to hold myself to taking the high road.
