My 2019
Wednesday, December 18, 2019 2 min
This post reflects what I was able to achive in terms of experience in 2019.
There were the following areas I was able to gain knowledge:
- entrepreneurship
- learning
- health
Entrepreneurship
I learned a lot about the building blocks of a startup:
- angel investment
- VCs
- equity
- shares
- options
Besides that I wrote my first business plan (not the favorite thing I’d like to do). Also I gained more insights about building a bootstrapped self-employment.
Learning
In terms of learning I was able to learn and improve:
- Elixir
- Dart
- Typescript
- modern Javascript (ES2015/ES6 and ES7)
- CSS3 (new features)
I was using the following frameworks / tools:
- Phoenix (Elixir)
- Flutter (Dart)
- Electron (Javascript / Typescript)
- Webpack
- Tailwind CSS
- Hugo
I read the following books:
- Elixir in Action, second edition
- Metaprogramming Elixir
- Programming Phoenix
- Phoenix in Action
- Desiging Elixir applications with OTP
- Refactoring UI
- Elm in Action
- Rust in Action
Besides that I read about a lot of topics about the used frameworks (especially Dart / Flutter and Javascript / Typescript).
Health
I was also able to learn a lot about healthy habits. This knowledge was gained by a former colleague, several blog posts, Youtube channels. I also read “Der Ernährungkompass”. As a result I was able to reduce meat consumption and improve my nutrition.
Besides that I was also able to spend more time with my family and in general reduce the stress significantly.
Also I had refreshed some former contacts which was very insightful and kept me socially connected.
This was my 2019 in a nutshell. Not too bad in hindsight.