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title: My Year in 2023
date: "2023-12-31T01:52:08Z"
lastmod: "2023-12-31T15:08:34Z"
categories:
  - how-i-do-things
wp_id: 3486
description: "This year-end review tracks partial success on experiments, environmental changes, and calendar discipline while setting 2024 goals around compounding, health, and relationships."
keywords: ["year in review", "2023", "goals", "experiments", "self-improvement", "planning"]
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![My Year in 2023](/blog/assets/DALL·E-2023-12-31-09.48.46-An-inspirational-and-motivational-blog-post-featured-image-for-My-Year-In-2023-with-the-text-My-Year-In-2023-retained-and-all-other-text-removed.webp)

[In 2023, I made 3 resolutions](/blog/my-year-in-2022/):

1. **Run 50 experiments**. I managed 44 / 50. (Here are [some](/blog/category/experiments/)). Learnings: I need to improve planning (9), scepticism (6), and lateral thinking (4).
2. **Make 1 change a month in my environment**. [I managed 8 / 12](/blog/one-year-of-transforming-thoughts-by-changing-environments/). The largest impact was from meeting new people, working out of new places, and using new gadgets.
3. **Calendar integrity**, i.e. stick to my calendar. I succeeded over 95% of the time.

My most memorable events in 2023 were:

- [Straive acquiring Gramener](/blog/father-of-the-bride/).
- [LLMs taking over my world](https://chat.openai.com/).

In 2024, I plan to:

- **Compound long-term goals, daily**. I want fewer, bigger, more meaningful outcomes.
- **Hit 80 heart points, daily**. Cycling or swimming (not walking, on doctor’s advice.)
- **Be a better husband**.

I'll continue to:

- Experiment, like in 2023.
- Change environments, like in [2023](/blog/one-year-of-transforming-thoughts-by-changing-environments/).
- Read 50 books a year, like in [2023](https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/38719689), [2022](/blog/books-in-2022/), [2021](/blog/books-in-2021/), and [2020](/blog/books-in-2020/).

I’m curious — what’s **ONE** thing you’d like to do in 2024?

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## Comments

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- **Santhosh** _1 Jan 2024 7:53 pm_:
  One thing that I want to do is run planned experiments and run more experiments !!!
- **[My Year in 2024 - S Anand](/blog/my-year-in-2024/)** _30 Dec 2024 10:00 pm_ _(pingback)_:
  […] Here’s the report card for my 2024 resolutions: […]
- **[My learnings as week notes - S Anand](/blog/my-learnings-as-week-notes/)** _25 Dec 2024 7:57 pm_ _(pingback)_:
  […] of my goals for 2024 is to “Compound long-term goals, daily.” Learning is one of […]

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