My 2023 Year in Review

2023 was one of the best years I’ve had in a long time. Experiences, career, happiness, fitness - everything’s at an all-time high except for YouTube where I took it a bit slower this year:

• Lived 6 months as a digital nomad in 🇳🇴🇹🇭🇯🇵🇰🇷 and collected lots of unforgettable memories. Very grateful for my 100% remote job that made this possible!
• Now back in Berlin 🇩🇪
• 4 Open-Source contributions:
  • Added a small enhancement to Hugging Face Datasets
  • Added a new audio data loader to LangChain
  • Added a new audio data loader to LlamaIndex
  • Contributed and reviewed pull requests for the AssemblyAI Python SDK
• 2023 YouTube channel stats:
  • 6 videos
  • 5M views
  • 270K watch hours
  • +42K subscribers
  • $13.000
• Fitness:
  • Ran over 1000 km (1042 km, 160 runs, 118 hours)
  • Total number of workouts: 279
  • Total duration: 169h 42m 2s (7 days, 1:42:02)
  • Total kcal burned: 100562.94 kcal
  • Top 3 activities (Running: 160x, Functional Fitness 58x, Yoga 42x)
  • (Blog post how I calculated this coming soon)
• Work:
  • Content: 17 videos, 6 blog posts, grew YouTube from 20K to 110K subs with the team🎉
  • Community: 1 meetup,1 Hackathon
  • Coded 3 integrations (Zapier, LangChain, LlamaIndex)
  • 4 company/team offsites (Orlando🇺🇸 , London🇬🇧 , 2x New York🇺🇸 )
  • Salary increase🚀
  • Shifted my focus to driving product adoption (more detailed blog post about my second year in Dev Rel coming soon)

• The Digital Nomad experience was awesome but I want to have a permanent location again
• Fell in love with Japan
• Running makes me happy and releases stress (what a surprise 😉)
• Yoga can be fun
• I love working at a startup
• Read more
• Enjoy the moment
• Communication is key

• Create 12 helpful YouTube tutorials on my channel
• More coding side projects
• Run a marathon
• Try out a new sport

Cheers,

— Patrick