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Belated Birthday Resolutions 2025

Reflections on 2025. Great progress on physical goals. Emotional and mental challenges, heavy personal stuff. Spiritual growth, more than in a decade perhaps?

The disappointment of compassion

Self compassion is the best (worst?)

Belated Birthday Resolutions 2024

Reflections on 2024. Healthy, fit and strong, but gotta care for some areas. Also focusing more towards family.

Q3 reflections

Reflections on Q3 of 2024. Family support, prioritize life over work, travel, and loving the winds as usual. Feeling strong and healthy.

Q2 reflections

Reflections on the second quarter of 2024, and first half - fun, stress release, stepping back and maybe being OK with it.

Q1 reflections

Reflections on the first quarter of 2024 - fun, lots of sun, busier and more stressful than anticipated.

Belated Birthday Resolutions

Resolutions of a year of (partially) coming to terms with aging, I ain't in my 20's anymore. I can do what I want, I just gotta be mindful.

2023 Q3 Reflections

Reflections on the third quarter of 2023 - lots of events and concerts, nature, strength and kite-ventures.

2023 Q2 Reflections

Reflections on the second quarter of 2023 - kiting a new spot, business development, therapy, family time.

2023 Q1 Reflections

Reflections on the first quarter of 2023 - kiting, learning to foil, recovering, family time, and handling stress.

Deduplicating SMS/MMS on Android

Got duplicates in your SMS backups, or already restored them thinking it's too late? Think again!

Belated Birthday Resolutions

Resolutions after a year of (world?) ups and downs. Coming of (middle) age.

Q3 Reflections

Reflections on third quarter of 2022 and a long trip to Europe.

Q2 Reflections

Reflections on second quarter of 2022 and first half of a year.

Q1 Reflections

Reflections on first quarter of 2022, with a look at yearly resolutions.

Belated Birthday Resolutions

Resolutions after (most?) of the COVID-19 pandemic. Also with intentions first, goals second.

Q3 Reflections and resolutions follow-up

The third quarter reflections for 2021 Anything expressed is not intended to be affiliated with business.

Q3 Personal Reflections

My personal reflections for Q3. Anything expressed is my own.

Q2 Reflections and resolutions follow-up

The second quarter reflections for 2021.

Q1 Reflections and resolutions follow-up

How 2021 has been going so far, with a look at resolutions for the year.

Belated Birthday Resolutions

Resolutions from a global pandemic kinda year.

I am a consultant.

A transition to a new identity.

The beginnings of my foray Into-Ition

One of my goals for 2020 was to develop my intuition. Here's how it's been going so far.

Belated Birthday Resolutions

A cat's ninth year of resolutionizing.

Belated Birthday Resolutions

The 8th year in a row!

The day I grew older and stronger

My year has been so full of experiences, I aged inside so much more than out.

Belated Birthday Resolutions

The seventh and luckiest year so far.

Belated Birthday Resolutions

What I think I want for 2017.

What's the real cause of procrastination & low motivation?

Why do we keep delaying the things we know we need to do? Why do we fail to act? Is it not enough motivation?

Belated Birthday Resolutions

Resolutionizing 2016+. Looking back and forward.

The number one reason working while traveling is hard

Learn about the biggest roadblock to working while you travel.

Objections and misconsceptions of a consulting relationship

My philosophy on consulting VS full time and maximizing your ROI.

How this model of intelligence helped me get over my indecision

Feeling indecisive? Too many decisions to make? Read on for surprising truths about our inner nature.

How I got over my fear of traveling alone

Are we often truly as alone as we imagine we are?

How a bus trip from Bucharest to Cluj changed my life

Or how can a series of unfortunate events be the best thing you could ask for?

Doing our little part

Learned helplessness as an unconscious excuse to give up.

The mixology of dating: business and pleasure

From startup to personal and back.

Another goal for the year

To be kind and compassionate to myself.

Belated Birthday Resolutions

How did 2014 go, and what my goals are for 2015.

On the market

Want to hire me? Here's what I'm most interested in right now.

Belated birthday resolutions

How did 2013 go, and what my goals are for 2014.

Have we forgotten to be social?

It's 2013 and we value numbers. That seems more superficial than ever.

Be vulnerable so you can be happy

The importance of vulnerability to brain health and how Western society deals with vulnerability and shame very poorly.

Time to look ahead paradoxically

Looking ahead through a book I received as a present, and Time Paradox, the book.

Aggressive selfishness is not the only path to success

Increasing the quality of life. Expanding on the book "Finding Flow" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

Finding flow in America: work, play, and friendship

Some thoughts on the book "Finding Flow" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

Belated birthday resolutions

How did 2012 go, and what my goals are for 2013.

Introducing Google App Engine Paginator

Need for a generic paginator for large datasets? Look no further!

SoWink: discontinued

A CTO's viewpoint of SoWink's failure as a young company.

Belated birthday resolutions

How did 2011 go, and what my goals are for 2012.