Looking back at 2023.

Hi,

I am Aman, and this safe space is where I am most raw with my thoughts, hop on if you'd like to interact with them :))

This is probably going to be a short one, 2023 was a stable year, working at a high intensity early stage startup you take home the realisation that time in your mid 20's is truly a luxury.

2023 was about personal introspection and discovery and I think i did a good enough job of knowing what I want by writing it out loud.

2023 was a good year for my personal learning, hope it continues this year.

2023 was apparently also the year when I expressed some of my theses:

Personal Databases

Accelerated Learning

Gated societies as an economic model:[WIP]

I may be wrong with these but who cares? Opinions are worth a dime!

2023 was about rediscovering engineering in a lot of ways and going deep down into some interesting rabbit holes.

Even though I took some time to look back: Jan-Feb-March: Summed Up

I still think about Catching Ambition.

2023 was about tinkering with tools.

I think I have reached a point where I have been gravitating more towards difficult challenges, all thanks to Isaacson for such a great biography. There are few books who can change the way you think and make you more ambitious and I think this book did the job exceptionally well.

2023 started with classics and was a whole new roller coaster in all aspects: Open Source Content Consumption.

While we may be over ambitious sometimes, I released it's always better to be wrong/realising something is not for you rather than not taking the shot.

2023 was the year I realised it's not black or white, it's both,

so to all of you Cal Newport and David Epstein fans, I'd like to say that it's a bit of both.

2023 was a bittersweet relationship with work but at one point I realised what I wanted and it all makes sense

I just love January, new year has just started, every impossible goal I have set up for myself to achieve still seems possible, the hope that this year will be compounding on the efforts of previous year still lingers on to me, everything is just daisy

Hopeful state is a happy state - Aman

So What now?

Few things

• Working on improving health
• Working on difficult problems[context:engineering]
• Being around people who are extremely optimistic and ambitious
• Building things that are fun to build and creating new economic spaces

see you around ;)