Whenever I am near the end of a year, I start planning for the next one. This has made me blog more than I had been in the early fall.

I wrote about planning for 2025

• 2024 Retrospective
• 2025 Pre-Planning

I’m also going to start podcasting soon, and I’m trying to find a way to bring them to YouTube

• Write While True is Returning Soon
• Video Ideas for a Podcast
• Practicing Doodling

One of my major activities this year was working on my book on tech debt. I am wrapping that up and starting to think about marketing.

• How I Wrote (most of) a Useful Book This Year
• Why LinkedIn Works For Me
• Write Pitches to Test a Book
• Mutation Testing
• Adam Tornhill on Tech Debt’s Multiple Dimensions
• Technical Debt Typology Research Paper
• Writing as Yourself to Yourself

My next draft of the book is due on December 4, and so I will be spending most of December finding things to do while waiting for it. I hope to have some new podcasts with my major lessons learned writing it.