What a year! Let’s break it down month-by-month.
Timeline
January: Finger fracture, ARC Retreat in Da Nang, finger surgery, CNY
February: Recovery
March: Prep work, Mr T’s swimming lessons
April: Assentor duty
May: Directing at APBF Youth Championships, started joining Tech Leadership Circle meetup, Bridge Ratings website launched
June: Data Science SG Talk, Mr T’s 1st birthday
July: More prep work, catching up with Choo Tatt and Keith
August: CS6101 (till Nov), facilitating coding workshops
September: More catchups (Noven and Kenneth Tay), Token 2049
October: Token 2049 (continued), more facilitation
November: WBF TD Seminar
December: Mr T starts school, ISO 42001 Lead Auditor course (passed!)
Reflections
The year didn’t start well with the finger injury, and the recovery looked bad until April but things turned a corner and recovery has turned out well.
This has really been a year of switching to more AI coding (including this blog post!) and much higher productivity. Organizations which embrace AI-assisted coding will push far ahead of those which don’t.
Joined new meetups: Tech Leadership Circle and helped out at some JuniorDevSG events. Caught up with some older friends (whom I haven’t seen for a decade) which is always nice!
Learnt a lot: CS6101, WBF TD Seminar, ISO 42001 Lead Auditor course.
The year ended surprisingly busy, and a couple small bouts of illness didn’t exactly help but 2025 ended a lot better than it started and 2026 looks to be new beginnings and an even better year.