I didn’t write much this year.

The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative mental capacity leaving little for writing.

The backlog is brimming, however.

Targets for 2024

• ❌ Publish at least 40 posts
  • 11
• ❌ Reach at least 200k readers
  • Don’t have an accurate number
• ❌ Have at least 6 posts on the front page of something
  • Probably would have met this if I had posted more – I had one successful post on Jan 14, which is encouraging
• ❌ Make at least $50 from writing.
  • Nope, did no monetization whatsoever

Breakdown

Some stats:

• Number of posts: 11
• Total word count: 3125
• Longest post: When am I “allowed” to quit and not be labeled a quitter? (630)
• Shortest post: Speaking at Hasso-Plattner-Institut (0, because it’s just a link to a LinkedIn post)

Breakdown by category:

• business: 1
• startups: 1
• ethics: 1
• robots: 1
• architecture: 1
• interviewing: 1
• productivity: 1
• selenium: 1
• doctolib: 1

No trend there.

Feedly still reports 18 followers - no movement. But it also marked the blog as inactive which is a shame.

Targets for 2025

I would like to commit to writing more in 2024, but I’m not very confident that I will have the time.

Regardless, the 2024 goals were quite lofty but achievable so it makes sense to try them again

• Publish at least 36 posts (3 per month)
• Reach at least 200k readers (not sure how to track this accurately since I’m not keen to add analytics and GoAccess doesn’t seem to be super accurate)
• Have at least 6 posts gain traction (front page of HN, 10 reactions on LinkedIn, etc)