0s and 1s of 2021

2021 has been a satisfying year. While the beginning seemed a little blurry as 2020 had its flavors sprinkled all over, 2021 was way better. Here are the key highlights of the year:

Key Highlights

The Travel Stats

My travel times have definitely reduced this year, but not disappointing as well. The stats are as of November 2021.

I was part of an Anthology and it was literally sent to the moon! I was on cloud nine! It’s called – Chandrayarn.

ebook – available on amazon

I managed to complete reading 5 books and really hope to improve it in 2022.

Goodreads – books read

I as well did the August Movie challenge and here is the list:

Set – 01

Set – 02

Set – 03

Set – 04

I did host 10 audio sessions, later half of the year, 1 hour each, fridays, on the ClubHouse App. The talk was themed on Live It Out. It was a good experience to talk for an hour on life and whereabouts. The sessions usually had around 20 to 30 listening.

A session poster

There have been few others as well, like officially starting my research journey, workshops, etc. I will keep them in summary points.

Task Set 01: Writing

1.1 Write at least 100 blog posts (around 8 per month) on itsphblog – I managed to write 62
1.2 Post 50 technical blog posts on itsphbytes – the count is 0
1.3 Take up A to Z Challenge in April with a theme – completed with happiness and two themes
1.4 Participate in NaNo-Camps in April and July – check
1.5 Continue working as ML for NaNoWriMo 2021 – done
1.6 Post 35 short poems on Instagram – did 59

Task Set 02: Reading

2.1 Take up Goodreads challenge and read 20 novels – managed to complete 5
2.2 Read 60 articles on web – I lost track this. I need to be organized

Task Set 03: Publishing

3.1 Publish the novel – The Art of Ageing Gracefully – yet in editing
3.2 Publish the ebook – Between Blue and Blue – could not touch
3.3 Near publish edit the book – Things in Nothing – could not touch
3.4 Publish at least five ebooks through Smashwords – managed to publish 1

Task Set 04: Research

4.1 Read atleast 50 meaningful research papers and log the summary – Was not organized in keeping count. my guess is I did around 30
4.2 Publish 6 research papers from various domains (conference + Journal) – published
4.3 Build 6 new models for Knit Algorithm – 3 are in better status

Task Set 05: Profession (Academics)

5.1 Look out for a new/similar career on high priority basis – 2021 was sure not favourbale in this regard
5.2 Improve coding profile – had minimal, nothing qunatifiable
5.3 Take up and complete 6 courses online (MOOC) – completed 1
5.4 Design and propose a new elective – proposed and rejected
5.5 Build a training module – could not
5.6 Work and aim to complete the textbook – NIL works

Task Set 06: Profession (Industry)

6.1 Provide 30 meaningful internships from Knit Arena – there were 7, but was not complete because of pandemic
6.2 Host 2 events from the company – hosted 0
6.3 Grow technically for industry (Transil and Knit) – growth was negligible
6.4 Have the first release of Knit – No release was made and I cry for this

Task Set 07: New

7.1 Conduct 3 workshops on various topics – conducted 1
7.2 Travel to two new places – Did and happy
7.3 Complete at least 3 new series/soaps – was more than 3 (Vampire Diaries, Originals, Flash, Young Sheldon, Kota Factory).
7.4 Do 31 days movies challenge – completed
7.5 Exercise and continue to stay fit and get better – happy for this
7.6 Symphony of words – NIL
7.7 Write one amazing article/post that I will be ever proud of – could not
7.8 Do 10 new things – one was session in ClubHouse. I dont have track of others. So, I consider this to be 1 only