AdamMar 9

Adamsdesk Review of The Year 2025

Join me in a review of reflecting upon achievements with statistics, what can be improved moving forward, and mental health for the year of 2025.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/adamsdesk-review-2025/

#blog #adamsdesk #AnnualReview

Thomas Schmidt Feb 18

neu auf #GadgetGedanken : 3T1G-13 Fill Forms or Grow People

Are performance reviews what they were intended to be? In this episode the 3 Thinkers examine how measurement systems, mism

https://www.gadgetgedanken.de/2026/02/3t1g-13-fill-forms-or-grow-people/

#3T1G #AnnualReview #EmployeeEngagement #EmployeeExperience #FeedbackCulture #GrowthMindset #HRInsights #HumanCentricLeadership #Leadership #ManagementSkills #ModernLeadership #MotivationAtWork #PeopleDevelopment #PerformanceReview #Podcast #WorkCulture

GadgetGedankenFeb 18

3T1G-13 Fill Forms or Grow People

https://www.gadgetgedanken.de/2026/02/3t1g-13-fill-forms-or-grow-people/

Are performance reviews what they were intended to be? In this episode the 3 Thinkers examine how measurement systems, mismatched expectations, skewed rating scales and poorly balanced feedback can overshadow meaningful development.

#3T1G #AnnualReview #EmployeeEngagement #EmployeeExperience #FeedbackCulture #GrowthMindset #HRInsights #HumanCentricLeadership #Leadership #ManagementSkills #ModernLeadership #MotivationAtWork #PeopleDevelopment #PerformanceReview #Podcast #WorkCulture
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Going GNUJan 2

Annual Review – 2025

2025 is a year of “Let it go”. I became slow, scattered. But made sure some important things are done. Compared to previous years, 2025 is “less done year”. But it’s ok. Life has to move on, with learnings from the past.

Here is a review of my 2025.

Failures first

  • Started No sugar life. Downgraded to less sugar in 4 days. Then dropped to regular sugar in 7 days.
  • No proper exercise
  • Bad sleep cycles
  • No regular reading
  • Spent too much time on social media, doom scrolling, short form videos
  • Very less contributions to Kaniyam.com and FreeTamilEbooks.com
  • Not giving enough time to learn french and car driving
  • Missing to be in regular touch with friends, family and relatives.
  • Missed journaling many days
  • Missed many blog posts and weekly notes
  • Missed to complete the Python book in Tamil
  • Missed to write about kubernetes in Tamil
  • Very less contributions to Wikipedia and openstreetmaps

Many small wins

Cooking

Started to own the cooking for breakfast and lunch. Was trying many years to own this process. Finally, made it this year. Once I owned the cooking, Nithya got good time for reading, learning new things, friends and more.

Self-hosting

Living in Canada, gives a good opportunity to run desktop 24×7. I rarely see the power cuts here. If many people living in US/Canada/Europe starts to self-host applications at their home, the internet will be so better.I am selfhosting the below websites

KanchiLUG friend Hariharan is working on revamping a website for ezhil programming language. Will host it soon.

Will host a few more websites and applications this year.

Happy to see all these websites are running from a 15 years old desktop, at my home, under my working table.

Photography && Videography

Photos are the cheapest time-machines. Capturing beautiful moments and smiles of people, is one of the good things I enjoy most.Captured many public events and personal events. This year, started to capture videos too. So far, I was staying with photos alone, as videos are taking more time, efforts and storage. But, the efforts are worth on seeing the results.

I use DarkTable for bulk editing Photos and Kdenlive for editing videos. Both are Free/Open Source Software. They can create all the magics like any other paid software.

Python class for kids and adults

Spent the 2025 winter break with a Python class for kids, at home. Teaching programming to kids was challenging. They ask a million questions or simply stare. :-)Conducted few one day workshops for adults too.

Had many weekly technical discussions with friends around. Have to resume them in 2026 too.

Online meetings

Attended some online meetings.

  • Tolkappiyam Python Meet on Saturdays
  • KanchiLUG meet on Sundays
  • Few Islandora meets
  • Few Kubernetes meets
  • Few emacs meets
  • TossConf planning meets
  • Tamil Software Freedom Day meets

Physical meetings

Attended few physical events too.

French class

Started to learn French Language. Joined an online class. It helps me to get up early morning and daily dose of some learning. I have to give more time for this.

Living with Emacs Editor

Started using Emacs editor at 2019 March. Since then, it is my text editor, TODO list manager, notes manager, bookmark manager and blog publisher.With its powerful orgmode TODO list manager, I am managing to complete most important tasks. Usually, on any day, I complete the 3A, 3B and 3C priority tasks. All others are good to work on. But, most of the time, I struggle a lot to complete 3A3B3C tasks itself.

Things purchased

  • Lost Google Pixel 9 phone. Then, bought Samsung s23 phone.
  • Eufy X10 Pro Omni robot . This is the best purchase for the home. It does cleaning, mopping daily, automatically
  • Kobo reader. This is 10 inch eink screen ebook reader. Reading the PDF and epub files are easy with this.
  • Hyundai Tucson Preferred Car. Nithya gifted this car for our marriage day. She got G driving license here. She is driving and taking us to many places. I will learn car driving in 2026.

A short video of the moments of getting car is here – https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dHAngrvygPw

Places visited

Car gave us feathers and opened up new worlds to explore.Summer went with lot of trips.

  • wet n wild
  • lion safari
  • Toronto reference library and few more libraries
  • Niagara
  • High Falls
  • Wasaga Beach
  • BlueMountains

Winter break was so fun with a trip to Montreal City. Visited few churches and Museums there. The 600 KM long winter drive was full of adventure.

Recording home accounts with KMyMoney

KMyMoney is the good open source personal finance application, with double entry accounting. It was a many years dream to learn it. Finally, started using it and recording all my financial details.

Books and Movies

Watched 3 movies in theater and 5 movies in TV.Completed reading 15 books. Very low ever. 😦

Office Works

Office gave me tons of opportunity to learn new things. Learned many new things on AWS, Python, git, airflow, Grafana and Kubernetes.

New projects

Started to work on these new projects.

  • Islandora for Digital Collections.
  • Tamil books Catalogs
  • Python articles series in tamil
  • Iyal spellchecker
  • Opds catalog for FreeTamilEbooks.com
  • A Prometheus/Grafana based monitoring system to show the expiry date of many website domain names.
  • French notes as static website with text to audio
  • Personal RSS aggregator to read content from many websites

2026 Goals

  • Exercise regularly
  • Complete Iyal spellchecker
  • Complete the tamil books catalog
  • Complete Python book in Tamil
  • Complete the book on Life Hacks in Canada
  • Learn French
  • Contribute to TolkaPy Project
  • Less Social media and videos
  • Read and Publish more books

Hope your 2025 was good. write about in your blog and share here.

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#2025 #annualReview
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Dr. Richard A. MacKinnonNov 28

Morning all!

I just published my November newsletter "Is it now already?"

👉🏻 https://www.worklifepsych.news/is-it-now-already/

#reflection #AnnualReview #ArrivalFallacy #Planning

Joshua McNeillMar 25, 2025
Just found a small but weird #citationhole. Roth et al. (2023), an #annualreview article on #ethnicity, cited Brubaker et al. (2004) and Cornell & Hartmann (1998) for #cognitive definitions of ethnicity. The former is fine, but the latter only talks about such definitions by citing Schermerhorn (1970), giving a direct quote. Roth et al. in fact used that quote close to word for word but didn't use quotation marks or cite Schermerhorn. Roth et al. all specialize in ethnicity, so yeah, kinda weird
BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺Feb 13, 2025

It's #AnnualReview time at work. And because I've bounced around a few teams over the last 12 months, I've got a bunch of colleague feedback forms to do.

And guess what - every single one of them is getting a *glowing* review and a mark of "Exceeds expectations" for everything.

Because I'm not a fucking #Snitch

Manoah ConsultingJan 17, 2025

An annual report for your business is more than just a formality—it communicates your company’s achievements, challenges, and plans for the future.

Read more:
https://lttr.ai/AahGX

#AnnualReport #YearlyReport #AnnualStatement #AnnualReview #SmallBusiness

How to Prepare an Annual Report for Your Business - Slideson

An annual report for your business is more than just a formality—it’s a powerful tool that communicates achievements and plans.

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chris actualJan 23, 2024

If you guys only knew how much of a faker I am on nearly every topic, but especially my career. How did I get here? idk honestly. But I LOVE pulling the wool over my peers' eyes all year then reaping the monetary rewards come annual review time.

I'd like to thank my negligent hiring manager and low-performing teammates for making all this fakery easy and so, so successful.

#impostorsyndrome #success #thankyou #career #fakeit #ruse #corporate #annualreview