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Goodbye 2013, Hello 2014!!

Following the tradition I started last year, I thought it would be a nice idea to write a wrap-up blog post on what I achieved on 2013 and what I am planning to do in 2014. Here it goes:

In 2013 I:

  • had the best year yet with my beloved Malin. This just keeps getting better and better :)
  • have been almost 2 years without smoking
  • started my new job as a software developer at Medius and got to work with much more interesting stuff than in my previous job, mainly building a SPA with knockout and ASP.NET MVC. It feels like I have gone from working with legacy technologies to the latest and greatest (or almost XD)
  • did lots of learning
    • Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
    • Idiomatic JavaScript and a ton of JavaScript libraries and frameworks: knockout, Durandal, angular, etc
    • Node.js
    • Objective-C, iOS
    • DDD
    • vim
  • wrote 27 blog posts. Less articles than during 2012 but of higher depth and quality
  • read 35 books on the most various topics
  • learnt a lot on personal finance and even took a course on financial accounting
  • went to my first hackathon and built inspirr
  • have improved my Swedish dramatically and use it daily both at work and at home
  • have worked on a small number of personal side projects
  • have improved my weight lifting dramatically without using supplements and just through consistency and smart training

If I were to summarize 2013 with one single sentence I would have to say… it was a year of learning, sharpening the saw and broadening my skillset as a software developer, not so much doing, but a lot of learning indeed.

In 2014 I want to remedy that and find a better balance between learning and doing, specifically I want to:

  • continue investing in my awesome relationship with Malin :)
  • start my own company and build some products
  • write my first book
  • become a more awesome developer
  • invest more in my drawing/design skills
  • continue investing in a healthy lifestyle and get a more herculean body XD

Wish me luck! And to you, I hope you have had a great 2013 and that an even better 2014 awaits you!


Jaime González García

Written by Jaime González García , dad, husband, software engineer, ux designer, amateur pixel artist, tinkerer and master of the arcane arts. You can also find him on Twitter jabbering about random stuff.Jaime González García