[journal] 2024 in Review

Years ago, a colleague asked me why I cared about Rust when we would never use it. Part of the answer: that was not my last job.

True Myth now has a tool for safe async in TypeScript: a `Task` type, the glorious combination of a `Promise` and a `Result`.

Reflecting on 2024 helped me see how I should approach 2025: by committing to do things which help me put work into the world—and not to dither.

These days, I speak and write and think in terms of “working effectively” rather than “being productive”—a subtle shift in framing that matters a lot.

I try (and have mostly succeeded for the past year) to do daily, weekly, monthly, and annual reviews with a particular structure: wins, misses, learnings, mulling.