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- Simplify flatten_vault API to return usize instead of MigrationResult struct - Add KEEP_FOLDERS: attachments/ and _themes/ alongside type/, config/, theme/ - Use HashSet for collision tracking in unique_filename - Update wikilinks from path-based [[folder/slug]] to title-based [[slug]] - Clean up empty directories after flattening - Flatten demo-vault-v2: move all notes from type-based subfolders to root - Update smoke tests for flat vault structure - Remove migrate_to_flat_vault from repair_vault (one-time migration only) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Month | 2024-12-28 | 24q4 | 😄 |
December 2024
Focus
- Run 24q4-annual-review-process — review all goals, projects, and metrics for 2024
- Complete 24q4-cycling-year-review — analyze training data, plan 2025 cycling goals
- Set 2025 goals and plan 25q1
Highlights
- Completed 24q4-annual-review-process: reviewed all 4 quarters, 20 projects, and 5 annual goals — documented everything in structured templates
- 24q4-cycling-year-review: 6,200 km total, FTP up 12% YoY, 2 gran fondos completed — decided to target Stelvio for 2025-ride-stelvio
- Set 2025 goals: 2025-reach-85k-subscribers, 2025-reach-22k-mrr, 2025-ship-laputa, 2025-ride-stelvio, 2025-read-20-books
- Newsletter closed the year at 50.2k subscribers — slight post-Black-Friday churn, but net position is excellent
- measure-sponsorship-mrr ended at EUR 11.4k — 2024-double-revenue confirmed (was EUR 5.5k in January)
- Read 2 books in December to finish at 26 total — 2024-read-24-books exceeded
- person-paco-furiani and I sketched out the 2025 operational calendar — quarterly planning cadence locked in
Reflections
December is always reflective, and this one more than most. Sitting down to review 2024 in detail, I realized that every major goal was either hit or exceeded. That almost never happens. The newsletter from 35k to 50k. Revenue doubled. Podcast launched and growing. Two gran fondos. 26 books. It was a genuinely great year.
But the review also surfaced where I was lucky vs. where I was good. The Black Friday campaign was well-executed, but the timing was also favorable — low competition in the engineering leadership newsletter space. The pillar articles strategy worked partly because of SEO tailwinds. I don't want to mistake a rising tide for good swimming.
Looking ahead to 2025, the goals are deliberately ambitious: 85k subscribers, EUR 22k MRR, shipping Laputa as a product, riding Stelvio. These require a different gear than 2024. More team, more systems, less heroics. The cycling review was satisfying — seeing 6,200 km logged, the FTP curve rising, the race results improving — it's the same compounding principle as the newsletter, just applied to watts instead of words. Here's to 2025.