Year review: 2024

Written on 13 Dec, 2024.

2024 is coming to an end. A lot happened in my life.

Starting at the end of 2023: I got married, I moved to a different country, and at the beginning of 2024 I started working on a new project.

The past 12 months have been a rollercoaster of emotions, filled with challenges that I won't discuss here. What I'll do instead, is to share a few accomplishments (or, in some cases, a few failures).

• I got married in October 2023 💍
• I moved to a different country in December 2023 🇪🇸
• ...and had to deal with all the bureaucracy
• Attended nearly all Go MAD meetups
• ...where I also gave a talk about Tendermint and distributed systems (slides)
• I didn't write more notes, nor truly started a second brain: miserably failed as I'm really bad at being consistent with taking notes, review and organize them, and make them useful.
• I quit my job in January 2024 to start a new project! Which leads me to
• Growth in my career, in non-technical areas. While I still want to be a deeply technical person, I assumed leadership roles out of my comfort zone.
• I travelled a lot, to get back to my family, to go on vacation, but also to partecipate in a lot of conferences:
  • FOSDEM 2024, Brussels (see you again in a few weeks!)
  • EthCC, Brussels
  • Token2024, Singapore
  • Cosmoverse 2024, Dubai
  • Golab 2024, Firenze
• Like we always do, we promise to write more in our personal blogs. While I wrote some of them, I still have a long way to go before being satisfied.
• I did take more seriously my photography. With the intent of getting better I watched countless tutorials and shoot a lot of photos. It's only a mere hobby, but it gets me out of my house.
• I read more books, mostly novels but also some non-fiction ones. The highlights are:
  • the Broken Earth series, N. K. Jemisin
  • The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin
  • Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir

All in all, I'm pretty tired, but I'm also happy with the progress I made. Let's see what 2025 brings!