2024 Summary: A year of trips and professional work

Closing out 2024 my highlights were mostly in conferences. The majority of my time was occupied with professional work going towards a big product release, viral posts and many conferences in Italy, Paris and Las Vegas. I spoke at DX day, IDPCon and Portal Talks and quite a few meetups and also appeared on the Cloud Native Podcast. 

It’s been three years since I shifted from software engineering to product. One of my goals from last year was to code more. Around mid last year that opportunity came up when I started working on an AI project with a friend. Previously, I was able to produce a lot of content about software as the research helped improve my abilities at work. The more my worlds diverge the harder it has become to juggle both and I touched on this last year.

Something I’ve learned about product and marketing these last couple of years is that ‘taste is king’ and one of the best ways to develop that taste is using and critically analyzing products by paying close attention to your own behaviour. This means using more products and assessing them more. This year I’ll focus my content on developer tools to re-align the two. 

What would make 2025 a success:

  1. Spend 100 mornings writing code or creating videos
  2. Publish 5+ videos on platform, developer experience and AI
  3. Build presence on LinkedIn on dev tools and platform engineering

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And just for fun a couple photo’s.

Here’s speaking at DX Day in March (I’ll be back in 2025!)

From the hotel in New York before speaking at IDPCon.

Hockey at Madison Square garden (certainly a bucket list item).

My favourite photo from the year. In New York. Not edited.

See you in 2025.

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