2024: Shut Up and Build

What’s Stopping Us Building the Life We Want to Live? Let’s Do That in 2024.

Ron Amosa.

Jan 16, 2024

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Talofa, reader,

Happy New Year, or as we say in Samoan: Manuia le tausaga fou!

As my end-of-2023 post laid out…

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2023: The End Is the Beginning Is the End

Talofa reader, I didn't plan on an "end of year" or 'wrap-up 2023' edition for the Uncommon Engineer. That seemed like too "common" an idea 😉🥁 One of my younger brothers turned 40 today (Boxing Day), and all five of my brothers got together for lunch. We reminisced about life growing up together and all the life events that have happened from then until…

9 months ago · 2 likes · Ron Amosa

…it was a year of firsts.

I’m nothing if not regularly trying new things.

Which is why the start of this year (most years actually) has me always feeling some type of way.

The new year often brings with it a sense of renewal, of energy, of conviction, and focus.

We get to planning everything and mapping out calendars and other planning notes.

When you've done as many cycles around the sun as I have, finding goals to achieve every new year is the easy part; there's a literal "whole world" of things to choose from.

The problem is paring things down to a few and driving those to a level of quality or success to be happy with.

Easy right?

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