{"id":4117,"date":"2024-01-07T16:15:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T21:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisgrundemann.com\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2024-01-14T20:49:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T01:49:24","slug":"peace-out-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisgrundemann.com\/index.php\/2024\/peace-out-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace Out 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations! If you&#8217;re reading this, you&#8217;ve survived yet another revolution (around the Sun). That means it&#8217;s as good a time as any to look back over the preceding year and reflect. What worked? What didn&#8217;t? What did we learn? As is <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisgrundemann.com\/index.php\/tag\/three-words\/\">my tradition<\/a>, I&#8217;ll do mine &#8220;out loud&#8221; so you can follow along&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>2023 Highlights<\/h2>\n<p>Copying the format of <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisgrundemann.com\/index.php\/2023\/2022-the-end-of-the-beginning\/\">my 2022 reflection post<\/a>, this year I\u2019m again starting off with a look back at the highlights of the past 12 months. <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisgrundemann.com\/index.php\/2023\/strap-in-for-2023\/\">2023<\/a> was a year of change for me, a year of growth, and honestly a year filled with more than it\u2019s fair share of existential dread. The 24<sup>th<\/sup> year of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century was also a year filled with travel and success and love. Let\u2019s start with those bits.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The year\u2019s first accomplishment was launching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fullctl.com\/\">a new website for FullCtl<\/a>, which is a joint venture between 20C and GTS focused on building network automation (NetDevOps) tools specific to BGP and interconnection that my friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/grizz\/\">Grizz<\/a> and I founded in 2022.<\/li>\n<li>At the end of January, Eva and I spent a lovely long weekend down in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico celebrating a dear friend\u2019s 40<sup>th<\/sup> birthday including quality time with several great human beings!<\/li>\n<li>Soon after that, we headed up to Colorado for a most excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/3Ka3k9K2WStR52UJVtbJZW?si=AjLPQLc-Q_2WHDtPH5eY4Q\">Mild Minds<\/a> show, and for what is becoming my traditional birthday snowboarding trip, this year in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keystoneresort.com\/\">Keystone<\/a>. It was epic \u2013 a full week with great conditions, and I got to see my Sister and her husband!<\/li>\n<li>The Winter NANOG event is always right on top of my birthday, and this year was no different, so I flew to Atlanta from Denver for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanog.org\/events\/nanog-87\/\">the 87<sup>th<\/sup> edition<\/a>, where I gave a lightning talk\u2026<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/p7rlhkmlDog\">Launching my first ever State of Network Automation survey<\/a> (I say \u201cmy\u201d because there was a couple iterations of a similar effort a few years back, so it wasn\u2019t the first ever survey).<\/li>\n<li>In March we launched Eva\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openlatedesign.co\/\">Open Late Design Co.<\/a> website and while I\u2019m obviously biased, I truly believe that her eye for aesthetics is supernatural, if you need a fresh, stylish, elevated brand and\/or website \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openlatedesign.co\/applynow\">hit her up!<\/a><\/li>\n<li>We also launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fullctl.com\/resource\/blog\">the FullCtl blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>April brought the 2023 Global Peering Forum (<a href=\"https:\/\/globalpeeringforum.org\/\">GPF<\/a>) where Grizz and I presented on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/chrisgrundemann\/interconnection-automation-for-all-gpf-2023\">Interconnection Automation For All<\/a> in addition to holding dozens of great meetings.<\/li>\n<li>From San Diego, Eva and I walked over the border to the Tijuana airport (they have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossborderxpress.com\/en\/\">a bridge<\/a>) and flew from there back down to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puerto_Vallarta\">Puerto Vallarta<\/a>, where we got to house sit for a beautiful and generous friend who was out of town for about a month.<\/li>\n<li>We got home just in time to drive up to Albuquerque, NM for the first ever ABQNOG, where I gave a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/chrisgrundemann\/peering-101-abqnog1-may2023\">Peering 101<\/a> talk to help educate regulators and tribal leaders in the face of BEAD and other government money being spent around the country to boost broadband adoption.<\/li>\n<li>Then it was up to Colorado for a week for my younger Son\u2019s 16<sup>th<\/sup> birthday!<\/li>\n<li>While there we bounced up to Denver for a night out with a few friends, which turned into a great weekend with a ton of friends, some who I hadn\u2019t seen in a long time.<\/li>\n<li>We hosted a pool party on Memorial Day for our local El Paso crew.<\/li>\n<li>In June, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanog.org\/events\/nanog-88\/\">NANOG 88<\/a> took us to Seattle. We spent a really nice weekend beforehand enjoying the rain, the food, the used book stores, and one or two night clubs (thanks to a great local host) \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/6AwGe2F49hD3ANXvmOwqQB?si=V0oEm3v5QGqa-c7RahdgQg\">Black Loops<\/a> absolutely killed!<\/li>\n<li>At the NOG, I got to present the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OFN2B0GtwOw?si=P_8M3a8W0GhdrtFI\">results of the 2023 State of Network Automation survey<\/a> (the slides are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/chrisgrundemann\/2023-state-of-network-automation-survey-results-nanog-88\">here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Closing out the first half of the year, FullCtl announced our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fullctl.com\/blog\/NetBoxLabsPartnership\">partnership with NetBox Labs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, wow, let\u2019s take a quick break. That\u2019s just the first half of the year, and I\u2019m already exhausted just remembering it all. Not to mention all the other great stuff that happened and has to be left off the list to keep it from being even more unwieldy. Take a breath. And then walk through the second half of 2023 with me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 7 July 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/scottrobohn\/\">Scott Robohn<\/a> and I founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/networkautomation.forum\/\">Network Automation Forum<\/a> and got serious about putting on THE network automation conference: AutoCon!<\/li>\n<li>I joined the FullCtl crew in Iowa for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventcreate.com\/e\/mwps2023\">Midwest Peering Summit<\/a> \u2013 a really wonderful regional event \u2013 where I got to present a couple times.<\/li>\n<li>FullCtl published my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fullctl.com\/resource\/netdevops-primer\">NetDevOps Primer<\/a> (email for download, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fullctl.com\/blog\/NetworkOperationsEvolution\">read the blogs<\/a> instead).<\/li>\n<li>Then it was time for my elder Son\u2019s 21<sup>st<\/sup> birthday. I took him to Tokyo for a week and we both had an absolute blast! Food, art, culture, shopping \u2013 and lots of trains. We also both got tattoos and we crashed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mandarinoriental.com\/en\/tokyo\/nihonbashi\">Mandarin Oriental<\/a> hotel lobby while we waited for our flight home.<\/li>\n<li>After a couple weeks of final \u201ctraining\u201d it was off to Portland for the mother of all relays, the 2023 edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/hoodtocoast.com\/htc-ptc\/\">Hood to Coast<\/a>! What an amazing experience, I\u2019m ready for more group running competitions. We\u2019ve already been talking about a marathon on the Antarctic ice.<\/li>\n<li>I stepped up and took on the CEO role at FullCtl to help us navigate increasing growth.<\/li>\n<li>October brought my wife and partner\u2019s 40<sup>th<\/sup> birthday and we went all out. A week at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casamalca.com\/en\/\">Casa Malca<\/a> on the beach, followed by another 5 days living in two adjacent <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tulum\">Tulum<\/a> jungle villa\u2019s with 16 of Eva\u2019s closest friends, and then a week on the beach in Playa Del Carmen. Day beds, boats, beach clubs, night clubs, private chef\u2019s, private movie screenings, public debauchery\u2026 It was a bacchanalia that would have made Ceasar proud.<\/li>\n<li>We bought a new car! A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tesla.com\/modely\">Tesla Model Y<\/a> Performance. The lease on our Model 3 was up and we decided to upgrade, and to purchase this time based on observed resale value and the amazing popularity of the Model Y (it\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/wolfstreet.com\/2023\/12\/07\/tesla-model-y-is-2-us-bestseller-in-2023-through-q3-behind-perennial-1-ford-f-150-and-ahead-of-toyota-rav4\/\">#2 bestselling<\/a> light vehicle in the US in 2023 through Q3).<\/li>\n<li>The next week we drove it up to Denver for <a href=\"https:\/\/networkautomation.forum\/eventinfo\">AutoCon 0<\/a> \u2013 the first conference to dare to ask <i>\u201cwhy haven\u2019t we seen full adoption of network automation, yet?\u201d<\/i> Scott and I both took some big risks professionally, personally, and financially for this and it paid off better than anyone could have hoped. That felt damn good. I\u2019m so grateful that we created something so valuable to such an amazing community. Thank you to all of you who helped make it happen!!! &lt;3<\/li>\n<li>I finally launched a website for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.impostersyndrome.network\/\">Imposter Syndrome Network<\/a> and we started accepting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.impostersyndrome.network\/nominations\">guest nominations<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Eva and I danced in the rain! We were at a restaurant slash night club with a big outdoor patio and it started raining not long after the DJ started. We said \u201cfuck it\u201d and danced in the rain for hours. I haven\u2019t done that since I was a much younger man. Chef\u2019s kiss.<\/li>\n<li>And we ended the year in Colorado with my family. A cherry on top of an absolute peach of a year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Or was it? Was 2023 really a peach? Well, yes and no. In the spirit of openness, and as a small way to fight back against the corrosive impact of social media filtering (only showing your friends the very best of your life, thus making theirs pale in comparison), I\u2019m going to let you in on a secret: 2023 was fucking tough.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong, those highlights all happened, and they filled the year with lots of love, joy, and gratitude \u2013 especially now looking back, my heart and soul are so full. What\u2019s also true is that there was a lot of very hard work, several pretty terrible moments, and a heaping serving of despair mixed in there too. I won\u2019t dwell, but let\u2019s be real about\u2026<\/p>\n<h2>2023 Lowlights<\/h2>\n<p>Unlike the highlights, these are not in chronological order, they aren\u2019t really in any order at all.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of my Uncles completed his journey here on Earth (he died).<\/li>\n<li>Two members of my extended family suffered strokes in 2023, one severe.<\/li>\n<li>Eva\u2019s cat, Mr. Pickles, had to have all of his teeth removed to fight an infection.<\/li>\n<li>My truck blew a head gasket. I think\/hope anyway. I have not made time to tear it apart yet.<\/li>\n<li>Our dishwasher heating element warped and melted both the spray arm and bottom of the machine. A fine mess.<\/li>\n<li>Tokyo in early August was HOT \u2013 we broke a sweat everywhere we walked outside for more than about 30 seconds and by the end of the week it was starting to put a damper on the mood.<\/li>\n<li>I was hit by a truck. That sounds way worse than it is. I was running through a cross-walk at a four-way stop and a big Texas pickup gunned it and lurched towards me. I put my left arm out and palmed his grill. He either saw or heard the impact and stopped short. No injury at all, maybe a bit of a stiff neck for a couple weeks, and a strong hesitance to cross the street while running.<\/li>\n<li>I got a concussion. The scary part is I can\u2019t remember how exactly. I blacked out, for a <i>while<\/i>. I was on my birthday snowboarding trip, riding with Eva on some greens without a helmet. I dove into the trees for a little fun and woke up walking with her at the base towards our car completely unsure of anything at all. It was one of the most terrifying things I\u2019ve experienced. Slowly, over several minutes or more, my memories and in a way my identity, came back to me. I cried, not from pain but from fear. I saw a doctor, and we skipped the last day on the mountain. We went shopping and I bought a new helmet instead.<\/li>\n<li>I fired my biggest customer. I like saying it that way, but it\u2019s not that dramatic. At the beginning of 2023, something like 70% of our consulting company\u2019s (<a href=\"https:\/\/chrisgrundemann.com\/\">GTS<\/a>\u2019) revenue was coming from one client. We had a whole team built to serve just them, including our own project management, etc. We were in a comfortable place, but it was taking a lot of my time and energy, and had become stressful and confining for me. At the same time, they were asking for more work, while simultaneously talking about considerably cutting our rate. So, I quit. We transitioned the team over to work for them directly and I got out of the way. I truly believe that this was the best outcome under the conditions. It was still not a particularly positive experience.<\/li>\n<li>And then there\u2019s the existential dread&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Instead of replacing that customer, or actively seeking new consulting clients at all, I chose to pour all of my time and energy into the three projects that I recently co-founded: The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.impostersyndrome.network\/\">Imposter Syndrome Network<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/networkautomation.forum\/\">Network Automation Forum<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fullctl.com\/\">FullCtl<\/a>, the interconnection automation platform. That lead to many of the highlights above. It also lead to Eva and I having negative cash flow for much of the year. As consulting work and it\u2019s associated income dwindled, abruptly when we \u201cfired\u201d that big client in early April and then more gradually until we hit $0 income in December, we had to start pulling money from savings to live.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want pity. I&#8217;m very grateful that we did so exceptionally well in the first couple years out on our own that we had savings to dip into \u2013 that\u2019s a position I\u2019ve never really been in before in my life. And what better to invest that money in than myself, and the ideas I believe passionately in?<\/p>\n<p>What I do want is to be real about how hard it is to be an entrepreneur. I guess especially, or at least in my case, a boot-strapped entrepreneur. It\u2019s scary when you can see the end looming ahead of you like some chasm waiting to swallow up your dreams. When people are relying on you.<\/p>\n<p>As AutoCon was winding down I admitted to a friend just how anxious and afraid I had been leading up to the event. He asked, why? I said it\u2019s simple; there had been so many ways to let so many people down. And that\u2019s the weight I carried through most of 2023 &#8211; not just for NAF, but across essentially everything I&#8217;ve been working on.<\/p>\n<p>As we made less and less money, I worked harder and harder. Not to compensate, it was simply that the projects, my projects, my babies needed more and more. Not only did these babies need more and more without giving much in return (for a while), I also had no idea if they would pan out. Everything I\u2019m working on seems obviously valuable to me \u2013 that is of course why I\u2019m choosing to work on it rather than get paid. =) Yet, that\u2019s no guarantee that others will understand or see things the same way. In fact, I could be totally wrong about all of it. Or worse, I could be right and just not good enough to pull it off.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never lead a software development company before. I\u2019ve never put on a full scale trade-show style conference before. I\u2019ve never <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2016832\/13405754\">interviewed Vint Cerf<\/a> before. Okay, that one is a lie, <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisgrundemann.com\/index.php\/2012\/chat-vint-cerf\/\">I have<\/a>. And I did host <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/A3fxhOHmXA4?si=QZ-V4aaZRF21sGU2\">INET Denver<\/a> a decade ago. And I\u2019ve built and run plenty of organizations over the years. But man oh man did I go through a lot of doubt and despair in 2023. Stress. Perhaps more than I needed to.<\/p>\n<p>After all, most of these lowlights are squarely in the \u201cfirst world problems\u201d category. In fact, \u2018getting to\u2019 fix our dishwasher was kind of a highlight \u2013 I\u2019m proud that I\u2019m handy. And did you see that list of highlights! So, not letting worries and troubles turn into fear and stress so much will be a focus in 2024, I want to set a more confident and calm example this year, but that\u2019s getting ahead of ourselves. Before I document my focus for this year (in another post), it\u2019s time to finish reflecting on last year (in this post).<\/p>\n<h2>2023 Words<\/h2>\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisgrundemann.com\/index.php\/2023\/strap-in-for-2023\/\">three words for 2023<\/a> were <strong>learn<\/strong>, <strong>teach<\/strong>, and <strong>wait<\/strong>. Let\u2019s take a quick spin through them to see how that worked out for me.<\/p>\n<h3>Learn<\/h3>\n<p>Man oh man did I learn in 2023. So much so that it feels like one of the longest years of my life. In many ways I feel like a different person than I was when I started the year. The position I was in 12 months ago feels a world away from where I sit today.<\/p>\n<p>While I still have a lot of work to do, I became a better listener. My focus on Stephen Covey\u2019s advice to \u201c<em>Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood<\/em>\u201d paid off. I also read Dale Carnegie\u2019s How to Win Friends and Influence People this year with the Impossible Book Club and it\u2019s classic lessons helped reinforce my drive to see the world from other people\u2019s perspectives. To <i>get curious instead of furious<\/i> when something doesn\u2019t go how I had wanted it to.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to talking to more folks more often, listening better to each one of them, asking better questions, and working to understand the answers; I also kept reading in 2023. And I started taking better notes on the key insights from what I read.<\/p>\n<p>I read about and then put into practice the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/blog\/how-to-create-alignment-within-your-company\/\">V2MOM<\/a>\u201d system from Salesforce. After listening to his autobiography, I adopted <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Van_Doren\">Paul Van Doren<\/a>\u2019s approach to: \u201cControl as much as you can, keep your options open, and then let nature take it&#8217;s course.\u201d And I was calmed after learning <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2009\/08\/change-is-hardest-in-the-middl\">Kanter\u2019s Law<\/a> (\u201ceverything looks like a failure in the middle\u201d). I\u2019ll refrain from dumping every lesson here, but suffice it to say that I collected several dozen of these nuggets, along with some more in depth notes on certain topics.<\/p>\n<p>Being a successful entrepreneur seems to hinge on two core abilities; being able to create and grow relationships, and being able to learn faster than you fail. I believe that I succeeded in both of those areas this past year and that allowed me to help a lot of people, which feels great!<\/p>\n<h3>Teach<\/h3>\n<p>Part of my reason for choosing this word for 2023 was to renew my focus on writing and speaking, and that worked out pretty well. I published 20 papers and articles and gave 21 talks across online and in-person events. If you\u2019re curious, you can find much of that work in <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisgrundemann.com\/index.php\/portfolio\/\">my portfolio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another reason for selecting Teach last year was in support of my first word, Learn. Teaching is a great way to learn (recall is just as important as \u201cstorage\u201d). And setting out to teach something forces you to learn more about it. That all worked out as well, I got much more hands-on into technology again in 2023, and I dug deeper into network automation specifically than I probably ever have.<\/p>\n<p>The primary thrust behind the word Teach however wasn\u2019t about me at all. It\u2019s about everyone else. I wanted to continue and to accelerate my knowledge sharing. And I believe I did that on a scale beyond anything I even thought possible at the beginning of the year \u2013 but I did it more indirectly than I might have imagined as well.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zo%C3%AB-rose\/\">Zo\u00eb Rose<\/a> and I published 50 episodes of the <a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.impostersyndrome.network\/\">Imposter Syndrome Network podcast<\/a>. In each episode we chat with an IT, digital infrastructure, or tech-adjacent person about their career journey. The highs, the lows, and the lessons learned along the way. So, while the guests are the one\u2019s who do all the real teaching, I\u2019ll take some credit for bringing these valuable insights to your ears.<\/p>\n<p>Another example of this indirect knowledge sharing was obviously the Network Automation Forum (NAF). The <a href=\"https:\/\/join.slack.com\/t\/networkautoma-prb3593\/shared_invite\/zt-25rdfdmyf-qYoYgXEEMs7h_aqwC79Abg\">NAF Slack<\/a> workspace is now over 1,200 strong, there are more than 1,000 folks on the <a href=\"https:\/\/networkautomation.forum\/home\/#list\">NAF email list<\/a>, over 3,000 people follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/network-automation-forum\">NAF on LinkedIn<\/a>, almost 350 engineers have subscribed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@NetworkAutomationForum\">NAF on YouTube<\/a>, about two dozen are following <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/orgs\/Network-Automation-Forum\">NAF on GitHub<\/a>, and at least 340 network automaniacs showed up in person for <a href=\"https:\/\/networkautomation.forum\/eventinfo\">AutoCon 0<\/a>! And again, while almost none of the knowledge in any of those forums comes from my mind or mouth, I am grateful to have been able to help create these rally points for such an intelligent, curious, and generous community.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I will note that FullCtl is also a vehicle for indirect knowledge sharing. A big part of what we\u2019re doing is embedding best practices into software to make networking easier to get right. We also spend a lot of our time directly teaching clients about the principles of NetDevOps and even just basic network hygiene.<\/p>\n<h3>Wait<\/h3>\n<p>This word was mostly about patience, and through that increased patience, kindness. I did okay here. Maybe even pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the year I found myself almost always going silent when I didn\u2019t quite grok what someone was saying to me, instead of always trying to respond immediately. I let things sit for an hour or overnight or even over the weekend to give myself time to process and respond more thoughtfully, mindfully, and intentionally.<\/p>\n<p>I also continued to enhance my new-to-me unhurried work style. Once upon a not-so-long-ago time, I was constantly rushing, consistently harried. In 2023 I built even more time to rest, reset, and reflect into my schedule. Maybe not quite enough. But progress was made. =)<\/p>\n<p>And working without pay to build projects that may be valuable in the future is most definitely an exercise in patience. You have to build and build and build and wait and wait and wait. I did this well last year. I turned down multiple near-term opportunities in order to remain focused on long-term value creation. I staid in on a lot of weekend nights, eschewing fun tonight for energy tomorrow. And I generally invested in my future by planting seeds and taking the time to tend to them while waiting for them to bloom some day.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if I had been better at this I would have had an even better year. Remember that existential dread I spoke about above? The depths of despair I found myself in on multiple occasions, freaking out about whether or not I was doing the right things at all? Yeah, most of that boils down to straight up impatience. I still have a tendency to want the end result to happen as soon as I figure out how to get there. Putting in the time to actually make that journey can still be frustrating for me \u2013 so, I\u2019ll keep working on this one.<\/p>\n<h2>2023 Goals<\/h2>\n<p>Still with me? Wow, you are a trooper. I hope you\u2019re taking something away from all this. As we look to wrap this annual reflection up, I\u2019ll do a quick run-down of my <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisgrundemann.com\/index.php\/2023\/strap-in-for-2023\/\">2023 goals<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h3>Personal Fitness<\/h3>\n<p>Keeping my mind, body, heart, and soul fit and in alignment is the most important job I have. Here\u2019s how I did.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run at least 2,000 km in distance\n<ul>\n<li><b>No \u2013 but I did run over 1,500 kilometers<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Run at least 20,000 meters vertical\n<ul>\n<li><b>No \u2013 but I did run over 18,000 meters of elevation gain<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Meditate every day\n<ul>\n<li><b>Not even close \u2013 but I did beat last year with 264 days of meditation<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Read at least 50 books \u2013 focus on biographies and history\n<ul>\n<li><b>Another miss \u2013 but I did finish 34 books, with 3 more in progress at the end of the year \u2013 I blame biographies for being so much longer than business books =)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Business and Productivity<\/h3>\n<p>How I create value for my fellow humans.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grow the Imposter Syndrome Network by at least 10x\n<ul>\n<li><b>No \u2013 but we did grow weekly downloads from about 150 to about 500<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Publish at least 100 original works (blogs, podcasts, papers, webinars, etc)\n<ul>\n<li><b>Nope \u2013 but I got really close with 94 (if you count all those ISNP episodes)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Write at least 6 more chapters for my first book as blog posts\n<ul>\n<li><b>Okay, this was a \u201ccasualty of war\u201d \u2013 I didn\u2019t make time for a single paradox post in 2023 \u2013 total fail<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Interview at least 100 colleagues about interconnection and automation\n<ul>\n<li><b>I\u2019m going to call this one a WIN \u2013 somewhere along the way I lost track, partly because I was overwhelmed by so many great new connections and amazing conversations this past year \u2013 but I am confident they number well over 100<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Publish the NetDevOps Handbook\n<ul>\n<li><b>Kind of \u2013 I pivoted and turned it into \u201cjust\u201d a primer to start, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fullctl.com\/resource\/netdevops-primer\">it\u2019s published<\/a> though!<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Be quoted in the media at least 5 times\n<ul>\n<li><b>Yes! \u2013 you can see my 7 media mentions <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisgrundemann.com\/index.php\/portfolio_category\/news-mentions\/\">here<\/a> (and that doesn\u2019t count the press releases I was involved with <\/b><b>putting out<\/b><b> myself)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Help my wife, Eva Leos, launch her new branding and digital design firm\n<ul>\n<li><b>Yes! &#8211; as mentioned, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openlatedesign.co\/\">Open Late Design Co.<\/a> is alive and well!<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Financial Health<\/h3>\n<p>Building my family\u2019s future with income and investing. As last year, numbers are redacted, but the goals are included here because I do think it\u2019s worth sharing generally how I am approaching achievement in this area of life.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Collect $X in gross profit (forget revenue, what do I need to make after I pay everyone else?)\n<ul>\n<li><b>No \u2013 as discussed, we made a hard pivot in 2023 that led to far, far less income than we originally hoped \u2013 we hit about 50% of this target<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Invest $Y in retirement brokerage accounts (most stocks are on sale!)\n<ul>\n<li><b>No \u2013 likewise, we only invested about half of what we had hoped to for retirement last year<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Save $Z for future investment in real estate (I remain convinced that real estate is the most accessible method for working and middle class families to build inter-generational wealth)\n<ul>\n<li><b>No \u2013 in fact we went negative here as we pulled money out of savings to cover revenue shortfalls<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Last Words<\/h2>\n<p>What\u2019s left to say? This is already an impossibly long post. I\u2019ll just note that while this was one of the longest and toughest years of my life, it was also one of the best. While I ended up missing almost all of my goals, I made incredible progress in the right directions. And the groundwork we laid together in 2023 will continue to grow and evolve for years, maybe decades to come. I\u2019m happy and I\u2019m proud.<\/p>\n<h2>Some Good Books<\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019m a little discouraged since Amazon broke all of the image links in all of my previous book recommendations\u2026 But, that\u2019s not your fault, so, here are a few recommendations from what I read in 2023:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Steve Blank \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3RRIzBC\">The Four Steps to the Epiphany<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/48lsT0w\">The Startup Owner\u2019s Manual<\/a> \u2013 both are must reads if you are starting or growing a new company.<\/li>\n<li>My son and I finished reading the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4aK0MtB\">Dune series<\/a> from Frank Herbert last year and I can confidently say that it keeps getting better with every book after Dune.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/48KT6oW\">How to Win Friends and Influence People<\/a> by Dale Carnegie is a classic for a reason, reading it makes me want to be a better person, and provides many of the tools I need to do it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/492zQDV\">Confucius Lives Next Door<\/a> by T.R. Reid provides interesting insight into how and why Eastern culture is so different from Western culture, and what we can learn from each other.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3TSuG98\">Team of Rivals<\/a> lived up to the hype \u2013 not just a compelling picture of an amazing American president, it\u2019s a fantastic snapshot of a key period of our history.<\/li>\n<li>Likewise, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3S7ds6A\">The Tycoons<\/a> paints a vivid picture of the men and events that ultimately led to American economic hegemony.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/48lsYkQ\">Authentic<\/a>, the autobiography of Paul Van Doren, is in many ways a counter-point to the memoirs and biography\u2019s of so many other business people \u2013 I really loved learning about the scrappy success of the man, the family, and the company behind my favorite shoes.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3vln6cG\">As a Man Thinketh<\/a> is a \u201cself help\u201d book written in 1902 by James Allen that provides a beautiful reminder that we\u2019re in complete control of the only thing that matters; our own thoughts \u2013 and through them, our personal reality. Shout out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/duanlightfoot\/\">Du&#8217;An Lightfoot<\/a> for this recommendation!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>That\u2019s It<\/h2>\n<p>Peace out 2023.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/nFFguNjdeotwc\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27400%27%20height%3D%27219%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20400%20219%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27400%27%20height%3D%27219%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/media4.giphy.com\/media\/nFFguNjdeotwc\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"Im Out Amy Poehler GIF by FOX TV - Find &amp; Share on GIPHY\" width=\"400\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations! 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