2023

A bit late for 2023 review but here we are.

🏋️ Health

• I put this first because it is my “number zero” of what I’ll focus. Strong body and mind will make good decision, good work and good life.
• Best decision is start “climbing”, mostly indoor bouldering and a bit of top-rope climbing. It makes me learn how to control movement and fill purpose of my current fitness routine. Also climbing community is really friendly, I met dozen of new friends and familiar faces I’ve known before. Btw, this is my climbing log.
• Also tried,
  • driving golf — not hard just a bit too drilling and I just practice for socializing)
  • wakeboard — I’m too lazy to swim back to land when I fell of to water
• From all those deed results me less office syndrome, good sleep and more energy.
• Still have a bit of short-tempered sometimes even outside I would look like a calm person.

💼 Work

• This is busy year of working and learning new things alongside, both technical stuff and people stuff. In technical perspective, I focused on setting up process and practices that improve quality of work.
• Know weakness in handling underperformed people, I’m pretty messed up with this. Some person even teased me that you should be “engineering trainee”, I simply replied, “please, no.”.
• Have doubt in career path and thought in switching role, but results in using what I can do well as “edge” to extend to new role.
• Also, switching work. Appreciate everyone who I’ve worked during these two years and looking forward to new challenges.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Community stuff

• This is “out of the cave” year.
• Joined as staff in creatorgarten events
  • Bangkok Open Source Hackathon 2023 as OD, running around staff and mentor
  • sht7 as running around person
  • Math at sundown
• Also visited couple of events in blockchain space, reconnect with bunch of folks and update narrative.
• Start to learn Svelte via contribute to open-source project. Who don’t love contributing something for public while learning stuff and building your portfolio.
  • parliament-watch

💵 Finance

• I have a bit of lifestyle inflation, so mostly I cut my budget to mutual funds, bonds, equities. Anything that is hard to make back to cash for saving.
• Started building offshore portfolio (NASDAQ, S&P) focused on accumulate worth in long term. I think understanding business, macroeconomics, market rotation really helps in investing.
• Compared to Thai equity market, earn dividends every quarter is real blessing. You know, some earning while your portfolio goes a bit red.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Relationship

• Still single.
• A bit suffered from losing someone who guide me.
• I’ve reconnected with many persons in this year. I appreciated that a lot.

💭 What I’ve learned in 2023.

• Stoicism, this is really core of it.
• Preparation, resourcefulness and self-awareness is essential to be advantage in any scenarios.
• Know when to cut loose.
• Don’t lose hope. There’s always an opportunity or key takeaway from worse situation.
• Know how important relationship is, don’t burn the bridges. It’s not worth it.
• A solitude and introspective session is required to review yourself and plan your next step of life.
• And again,

  Every transformation demands as its precondition “the ending of the world” the collapse of an old philosophy of life - Carl Jung

• Life is a burden, so choose the glorious purpose (burden).