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Reflecting on the year 2025 has prompted me to write this post. And since it is unusual for me to write a themed message whose relevance and resonance ends with a year, I hope that the point of this post will last beyond January, certainly hope it lasts beyond 2025. Actually, my wish is that it stays relevant and resonating for longer than my blog could be available on the internet. With that said, I want to share about All-in now.

As I reflect on the last two years of my career, I want to write about a topic that we all care about, seek an answer to, and still search for: a sense of fulfilment in our jobs.

At a point in life, being able to walk is the metric that matters. Then, being able to talk. Then, it quickly moved to how many exams you passed with the purpose of getting promoted. Then it was CGPA, and then it was how long it took to get your first job. Soon, it would be how long you were in a role before you got promoted. Then, it would be what level you are on.

I think the real title should be A Few Reasons Why I Write. But don’t worry about that—let’s just get into it.

I took a break from writing partly because I wanted to reflect on the kind of things I usually write about. If you go through my articles, you’ll notice that most of them are about life experiences, what we can learn from them, and how we can make the best of them, even within constraints. When I thought about it, I wondered whether I should instead be writing something more technical, perhaps related to my field of work or other areas of interest. And rightly so, if I could.

The world is more polarised and people are more conflated about their identities. This has been followed by an endless series of finger-pointing, scaled division in society and in some way the rise in the confidence disease as Shakespeare put it “the fool doth think he knows what he does not know.” I was reflecting on this when I remembered the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, the last good emperor of the Roman Empire.

These are my reflections on the transformative year of 2020

The world shifted in an indescribable way in 2020, and its significance will continue to unravel for decades to come. It’s impossible for any individual to fully comprehend the profound changes that occurred. Nevertheless, I’ll do my best to articulate some of the things that I’ve observed. Please join me on this journey, as it’s complex, and I hope I won’t stumble too much.

Let me do a quick reflection that’s just for me as it can be for anyone who may read this later.