The year 2015 was different. Every year is. Without further ado, a short overview of things that happened with me.

• Most of these are about what I did. But let’s start with an obvious opposite one. I didn’t write a single blog post, except for the yearly summary. I like writing, but I failed to make writing blog posts a priority in 2015.

• At the start of the year, I came up with a rule: “After I watch a movie or read a book, I must write 100 words about it.” That resulted in 17 movie reviews on Letterboxd and 13 book reviews on Goodreads. But it started limiting my enjoyment as I would start thinking about reviewing while reading/watching. Dropped this experiment in June.

• Read 28 books. There’s a lot of good ones among them. But let me recommend three. Creativity, Inc. - if it was up to me to shape an organisation, Pixar would be my inspiration. Capital in the Twenty-First Century - changed the way I look at economy and wealth. Words of Radiance - best fantasy book I’ve read in the last couple of years.

• For the first time, entered a running competition. Ran a half marathon at Miško Trasa in 1:42:51.9, finishing 77th out of 147 runners in my group.

• Thanks to good habits, my weight remains the same. That’s not a huge achievement for the average human being, but seing that I was 30kg heavier just a couple of years ago, it’s worth noting.

• Gave presentations to multiple development communities for the total of seven times. One of them was in Riga, making it my first presentation outside of Lithuania.

• Grew a beard. Now I only need to acquire a cat and I would be a proper developer, just like @tenderlove.

• My title at Vinted changed to Head of Engineering. There’s a lot of new challenges, both related to the continuously growing company size and my changing role. Challenging is fun.

• Continued contributing to open-source. Pronto remained my main focus and is better than ever. It would not have gotten to this point without more than dozen amazing contributors.

Off to 2016!