January 1, 2025

In 2025, I want to focus on my wife Sukriti. This time I did not write a blog post explaining this theme in detail - so see you next year!

January 1, 2024

In 2024, I want to focus on the wellbeing of myself and those around me: I want to focus on my mental health and give myself time to exercise, introspect, and learn. I want to properly take Sundays off and spend more time with myself and my loved ones, and I want to see my personal trainer and my therapist with more regularity and review my goals frequently. Secondly, I want to actively practice gratitude to be more thankful for everything I have. I want to be more appreciative of the people in

January 1, 2023

I want to improve my relationships with my work, myself, and my surroundings in my Year of Relationships: I want a healthy relationship with my work. I want to continue to work hard on my company. 2022 was my highest productivity year yet, and I don’t want that to change in 2023, while taking enough time off and maintaining a healthy balance. I also want to plan better and spend time in structured thinking. Secondly, I want a strong relationship with my body & min

January 1, 2022

Year of Teamwork stems from some of the issues I’ve been facing lately with delegation. Reflecting on my calendar in the past few months, I see that I’ve already started spending significantly more time on code review and planning than actually writing code than I used to this time last year, but it’s not nearly enough. I still spend the majority of my time as an individual contributor, which is scaling very poorly.

January 1, 2021

I didn’t write a blog post about my theme in 2021, but here’s an excerpt from my blog post 2022 will be the Year of Teamwork which summarizes my thinking behind this theme: My theme for 2021 was Year of Commitment. In a post-pandemic world, I decided to double down on long-term goals (work, health, and personal life), and after living in India for most of the year, I wanted to move back to the Netherlands – but not alone this time. In the last quarter of

January 1, 2020

I didn’t write a blog post about my theme in 2020, but here’s an excerpt from my blog post 2022 will be the Year of Teamwork which summarizes my thinking behind this theme: 2020 was my Year of Long Term. I had just come back after living for a short while in the San Francisco Bay Area (after an exchange semester at Santa Clara University) and I knew that I’d be graduating from the University of Twente in 2020, so I had to decide where to fo