2015

Jan 2016

While there’s nothing special about the arbitrary time frame of a year it provides a good time to do long-term reflection and goal-setting. 2015 has been a great year. What I’m most proud of is building a solid exercise routine, reading 40 books, becoming confident in public speaking and improving nutrition significantly. Every year, I strive to make it better than the last, which has been successful for the past 5 years. These numbers, of course, only capture a small part of the story. The number or percentage change in parenthesis is compared to last year.

Travel
- Flights: 42 (+50%)
- Kilometres: 110,000 (+60%)
- Airlines (9): Air Canada (17), Lufthansa (8), United (8)
- Airports (23): YOW (17), YYZ (7), SFO (6), YUL (4), BLL (3)
- New Destinations (6): Mexico City, Siem Reap, Hanoi, Salzburg, Lake Tahoe, Zürich
- Countries: 11 (8)
Conferences
- Speaker: 5 (2)
- Attending (excluding those spoken at): 2 (1)
  - Dockercon, Barcelona
  - SRECON, San Jose
Twitter
- New Followers: 1402
- Tweets: 621
Website
- Page Views: 200,000 (+100%)
- Users: 140,000 (+120%)
- Sessions: 170,000 (+120%)
- Most Popular Article: Why Docker is Not Yet Succeeding in Production
Reading
- Books: 40 (10)
- Audiobooks (Audible): 16 (0)
- Kindle: 24 (10)
- Favorites: Antifragile, The Dorito Effect, Bold, Slack, Meditations
Apps and Services
- New: Workflowy, Strong, Snapchat, Goodreads, Google Inbox
- Deprecating: Gmail Client, Evernote, Alternote
Music
- Top Artists: Purity Ring, Nils Frahm, MØ, CHVRCHES, Kiasmos
- Time: 1,018h
Health
- Lifts (only included those I’m currently progressing on, I cycle primary exercises every couple of months)
  - Weighted Chin Ups: 5x75lbs (8x0lbs)
  - Weighted Pistol Squat: 5x70lbs (3xBW)
  - Power Clean: 5x150lbs (5x85lbs)
  - Flat Bench Press: 5x195lbs (5x135lbs)
  - Shoulder Press: 5x120lbs (5x85lbs)
  - Push Up: 5x(one-arm push up), 1x(behind back clap push up)
  - Back Squat: 5x285lbs (5x165lbs) not currently progressing, haven’t done BS in 3 months
- Body
  - Weight: 172lbs (175lbs)
  - Bodyfat: 10% (15%)
  - No breakfast

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