{"id":4634,"date":"2014-12-23T21:55:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T07:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=4634"},"modified":"2014-12-23T21:55:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T07:55:46","slug":"my-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/my-year\/","title":{"rendered":"My year"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s that time of the year again when Facebook does this tiny viral app thingy again that displays “Raphael’s Year”. \u00a0Like I needed a reminder another year is up? It was rather innocuous…it didn’t show anything particularly harmful or crazy this year. Which got me thinking I wasted the entire year doing nothing interesting at all.<\/p>\n

What got me particularly concerned about this particular incident was that it got me thinking…why does time seem to go so fast? \u00a0This year really felt like a blur. It got me reading some articles<\/a> that basically said that psychologically time seems to rush by because of routine. So that’s my problem…I was bored all year and I basically did the same shit over and over.<\/p>\n

Well there’s nothing much I can do about it now…unless I can think of some amazing thing to mark the year, 2014 will be over. Looking back however, I can say that professionally I’m proud of at least one major accomplishment this year.<\/p>\n

I can proudly say I overhauled a college website. Not just that but I got every measurable metric for that site improved by double-digit percentage points! \u00a040k visitors a month generating numbers that tell me they’re all getting a better experience thanks to moi. I might not be able to brag about that much at work & some people there are still biting at my heels trying to put me down….but I’m quite proud of that.<\/p>\n

I didn’t learn to be a better designer this year. But I DID learn how to get things approved by some tough committees. I put together people who did good work. I made decisions that were sometimes risky or maybe unfavorable by some groups. I used the right resources and tools (sometimes at my own expense). And at the end of the day…I made it happen better than anybody expected.<\/p>\n

I’m quite proud of that.\u00a0So while I may look for a bigger adventure to herald 2015 as a year to remember….2014 doesn’t seem like it was that bad a year after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s that time of the year again when Facebook does this tiny viral app thingy again that displays “Raphael’s Year”. \u00a0Like I needed a reminder another year is up? It was rather innocuous…it didn’t show anything particularly harmful or crazy this year. Which got me thinking I wasted the entire year doing nothing interesting at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4636,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions\/4636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}