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const title = `Celebrating the year's end 🎉`
const description = `Wrapping up 2024 and preparing for the next year...`
const publishedOn = `the Christmas Day of 2024`
const publishDate = `2024-12-25`
const publishState = `while on the way home after a vacation in Germany; now onboard a train from Eindhoven to Amsterdam.`
const content = `<p>Christmas holidays as started for me.</p>
<p>I think I finished all needed stuff for work. Also messaged people online for a final happy holiday greetings of the year. Will go offline til January and figure out my rhythm for next year.</p>
<p>Reading Radical Candor by Kim Scott. Feels like a lot of these kind of books are a rehash of concepts in "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" and "How to Win Friends and Influence People" -- I recommend those first before this one! I like that “humility” was also given a spotlight; there's not enough attention to the effectivity/productivity of acknowledging you can be wrong and welcoming feedback (both praise &#x26; criticism). Hard to capture in a paragraph though -- ask me to elaborate if you want and when given the chance!</p>
<p>Also reinforced the idea that 'writing a story' in my head about people, with prejudice, is unproductive. Assumptions are never good; always verify before forming judgments and/or giving feedbacks.</p>
<p>Spent some time in Aachen, Germany with the fam. Walked around the Christmas Market there. Food trip galore, sat at cafes, read books, bought stuff. :)</p>
<p>But the highlight is going to Monschau on a day trip. Kahel buit a small snowman.</p>
<p>Also, realized down-time travel time is infinitely more productive when listening to Audio books. It is especially effective for me for books I have already finished and just need a review. So I am glad I have a copy of the 7-habits book ready -- I finished that one years ago, listening to the audio is mostly just a review.</p>
<p>Stopping now before this becomes a long blog about books; seems I need to write that separately...</p>`
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