Several days ago, I read Xuanwo’s 2024 Review - 40 questions to myself, I think I should also make one, to make my life look like it is not that boring.

1.What did you do this year that you’d never done before?

  • We had a wedding.
  • I started a new career as indie developer, bootstrapped Boring Design
  • I moved from Hangzhou to Vancouver.
  • I started to learn web 3 systematically.

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions?

No. I do not think I have new year’s resolution. Should I make one?

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

No, or I did not remember.

4. Did anyone close to you die?

My grandma is gone.

5. What cities/states/countries did you visit?

Because of the wedding, we drove across Zhejiang, Shandong, Hunan, as a triangle.

Otherwise, Chiang Mai, Vancouver.

6. What would you like to have next year that you lacked this year?

A health and happiness routine.

7. What date(s) from this year will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

The day we arrived at Vancouver, it started my new adventure, let me face to the new challenges.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Bootstrap Boring Design.

9. What was your biggest failure?

I lost lots of my productivity in the final months of 2024. Until now I did not find them back.

10. What other hardships did you face?

I need to build connections with local communities.

11. Did you suffer illness or injury?

I suffered from middle ear issue, several times.

12. What was the best thing you bought?

IKEA ergonomic chair: “STYRSPEL”.

13. Whose behavior merited celebration?

No idea.

14. Whose behavior made you appalled?

A series of behaviors from Donald Trump, including launching memecoins, tariffs policy with Canada and Mexico, DOGE;

I did not care about politics in 2016, but I do now. He is not a normal politician, I still have no idea what he will bring in the next 4 years.

15. Where did most of your money go?

Living cost.

After moving to Vancouver, it will cost me about 3000 CAD just for renting. Food prices are 2x-5x compared to China.

16. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

I do not know. That’s a big problem.

17. What song will always remind you of this year?

星に駆られて, the main theme song of Monster Hunter World.

18. Compared to this time last year, are you: happier or sadder? Thinner or fatter? Richer or poorer?

sadder, thinner, relatively poorer

19. What do you wish you’d done more of?

Ship more products, including marketing.

20. What do you wish you’d done less of?

Spend less time on social media and youtube.

21.How are you spending the holidays?

Keep working.

22. Did you fall in love this year?

Always with my wife.

23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

I did not hate somebody in recent years.

24. What was your favorite show?

拉面赤猫 / ラーメン赤猫 / Red Cat Ramen will be my favorite for this year.

25. What was the best book you read?

小岛经济学 / How An Economy Grows And Why It Crashes

26. What was your greatest musical discovery of the year?

Sadly, no.

27. What was your favorite film?

It seems I did not watch a full movie this year.

28. What was your favorite meal?

妞妞家烧烤

It’s a BBQ restaurant that companion with us in Hangzhou, from 2019 until we left Hangzhou.

29. What did you want and get?

The chance that I could do both of daytime and nighttime job.

30. What did you want and not get?

Abilities about marketing, sales and presentation.

Tesla Model Y.

31. What did you do on your birthday?

I did not remember.

Working?

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?

Keeping delivery products.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion this year?

simple dumb

34. What kept you sane?

Sleep.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you admire the most?

I am not sure.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?

I lives in Canada now, so I am worry about the policy and relation ship between US and Canada.

37. Who did you miss?

Teammates in Chaos Mesh team, friends in Liangzhu.

38. Who was the best new person you met?

Nestor Balce, he is the co-founder of Vancouver Linux User Group.

39. What valuable life lesson did you learn this year?

Business is more about sales.

40. What is a quote that sums up your year?

I do not know.