[Retrospective](EN) Let's look back

Retrospective of this year

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Background

I am writing this to look back on this year and plan for the future. Below is the list of retrospectives I have written previously.

I used to write very detailed retrospectives every year but now I really don’t have enough time so I intend to keep it as concise as possible. I will write following the stream of consciousness but I’ll try to finish each point in one line if possible.


Looking Back at 2025

I will write in the order of company, personal work and daily life.

Company

Work

  Last time I organized and wrote everything in detail but this time I will write briefly. Since the work didn’t fit me well and there were difficult parts in 2024, I set a goal for 2025 to just resolve the given tasks well. Fortunately, I was able to take on and proceed with the server development, operations, and QA tasks that I wanted to do.

I took charge of all the server related tasks (including development and maintenance) that had been postponed and I proceeded with issue handling and efficiency improvements. I conducted QA alone for relatively large services. Although the metrics for deployment frequency and error detection were a bit lacking, I spent a successful year.

I was able to learn various knowledge while using AI and I think I was able to do the work I wanted to do more enjoyably. However there were some challenges in the QA part and there still are so it would be good if those parts are improved in the future.

I put tasks in Microsoft To Do and the tasks I didn’t delete after finishing at the end of the year. It was very helpful for this retrospective so I plan not to delete them and keep them separately from now on.

DX Insider Activity

  This is an activity similar to last year’s DX Creator. There were many ups and downs but essentially it was enjoyable and helpful. Since I like filming and videos, it was a great help for self-actualization and stress relief and I have no regrets as I could have a good time with the team members. I hope I can do it next year as well.

Thanks to last year’s activity and this year’s activity, I was able to apply for other broadcast appearances and it was fun. There was a really good opportunity but unfortunately it fell through. As expected, one must always be prepared and it seems opportunities come if you live diligently.

I hope to find self-actualization and joy through such filming and broadcasting work in the future, not just within the company. It is one of my many joys.


Personal Work

Blog

  I could hardly do it. Since I took care of my family as the top priority and then focused on company matters, I lacked time to rest. I tried to write when I had a gap but it wasn’t easy. In fact, instead of blogging I split my time to do other studies(stocks, development, English) or slept more.

Perhaps because blog traffic decreased significantly with the emergence of language models and AI, it became a lower priority.


Personal Projects

  There are so many things I want to make such as games, services, novels, and webtoons, and I imagined a lot. Realistically I haven’t made anything and only dreamed.

For games, AI has developed a lot but drawing was difficult and although I thought a lot about scenarios or direction they remain only in my head. Actually I haven’t done anything. Let’s reflect on this.

For service development, speed picked up a lot as AI developed but it is still hard to make time for it. I am currently working hard on making something to check how long it takes when developing via AI whici is aiming for a release next month.

In the case of novels and webtoons, there is no platform where I can write the genre I want and the only way is to make it with AI and post it on SNS. However I haven’t even started yet.

The only part I practically proceeded with is the service development I started around November. I am really trying to make time but making time is truly difficult and since everything requires sufficient time and sincerity I felt a limit. The service I am making isn’t for profit so I don’t know if there will be any ROI but I want to complete at least this successfully.

Still, the fortunate part amidst these poor results is that AI has developed so well these days that speed has increased tremendously in whatever work I do. I could write a lot about this but I think people who can think while utilizing AI well will succeed in the future. Otherwise hmm… I think everything will be sufficiently replaced. I believe only the people in areas where AI is applied slowly and those who use it well will eventually remain and that won’t be that many. I have to survive, right?

Additionally there are still many various things I want to do.


Daily Life

 Maybe because of my age it became harder to wake up in the morning starting this summer. So I used to exercise for over an hour every day but it decreased to about 30 to 40 minutes. I don’t know the reason but my body condition requires more sleep. Still I can’t stop exercising so I tried to go as much as possible every day.

This year, whatever I did, time was always too short. As mentioned above there are many things I want to do but my body is tired and since family is the top priority I had almost no spare time because I was doing family related things first.   In fact there were quite a few times when I was mentally stressed. Still I tried to relieve it as much as possible by exercising, playing games, sleeping, and doing what I wanted to do.

To summarize, while attending the company I was as faithful as possible to my family and I tried to do various things whenever I had time in between. However I feel regretful because the results seem a bit lacking compared to what I expected.

It’s something I feel every time, but I often think “I wish my energy and ability were better.”


2026 Goals

Every time I look at last year’s post, I am a bit surprised that I had already written everything I wanted to say. Seeing this every year, it seems my beliefs or values are already established. Listing them to make it easier to see, it is as follows.

The most important things are still these three.

  • Family
  • Health
  • Work

These are the important elements that become my criteria for judging any matter. I wrote ‘Work’ at the end but it doesn’t mean work is more important than friends or people around me… Is there anyone who would misunderstand this?

I added to last year’s thoughts and thought the following.

  • Even if there is something that I’d like to do, I may not be able to do it.
  • Goals should be set specifically.
  • I have to clean up my greed.
  • There is no turning back.
  • Speed is life.

Two things were added. Since there is no turning back now, I have to focus and work hard every time. The last one is something I didn’t know usually but felt recently. I am a bit slow when doing certain tasks. It was a part where I used to catch up similarly by investing more time than others but now speed seems to be life as well. As a simple example in daily life, starting with folding laundry… let’s not fold it too diligently.

Nothing will change significantly. I am still thinking as below.

  • Family related work first
  • Work   - Company   - DX Insider activity
  • Travel with family
  • Exercise four times a week
  • Speaking and listening to English conversation during commute
  • A good night’s sleep and rest
  • Blog
  • Investment
  • Personal Works

It changed a little from last year and looking at it this way 2025 seems like a year well spent. One goal has increased in a way but the reason I couldn’t remove anything is that all of these are now essential for survival.

I wrote down several goals but I plan not to be too greedy. I will definitely take care of health and family, and while those things are good, I want to become emotionally stable. I seem to be a bit emotionally unstable and I hope this improves.


Conclusion

I tried to finish with one line but I wrote longer than expected.

This year, I was happy spending time with my family and happiness and celebratory events came as a new family member arrived. However it is also a year when my dog who lived at my parents’ house crossed the rainbow bridge. I was mentally struggling due to various events and had recovered but when I think about sending away the dog who was our family, my heart still breaks and I only remember what I couldn’t do for him. It is a past event and it is sad but I will remember him forever. I want to meet my brother again someday. Perhaps due to this influence, I want to spend more time with the family currently by my side without any regrets.

I have the standards of life written above and I plan to live diligently while keeping those standards, just as I have done so far.

Let’s continue to work hard as I’ve done so far. Gratefully and humbly, let’s work hard!

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