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+[#]: author: (Julia Evans https://jvns.ca/)
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+2019: Year in review
+======
+
+It’s the end of the year again! Here are a few things that happened in 2019.
+
+### I have a business instead of a job!
+
+The biggest change this year is that I left my job in August after working there for 5.5 years and now I don’t have a job! Now I have a [business][1] (wizard zines).
+
+This has been exciting (I can do anything I want with my time! No rules! Wow!) and also disorienting (I can do anything I… want? Wait, what do I want to do exactly?). Obviously this is a good problem to have but it’s a big adjustment from the structure I had when I had a job.
+
+My plan for now is to give myself a year (until August 2020) to see how this new way of existing goes and then reevaluate.
+
+I wanted to write some reflections on my 5 years at Stripe here but it’s been such a huge part of my life for so long that I couldn’t figure out how to summarize it. I was in a much worse place in my career 6 years ago before I started working there and it really changed everything for me.
+
+### !!Con
+
+2019 was [!!Con][2]’s 6th year! It’s a conference about the joy, excitement, and surprise of programming. And !!Con also expanded to the [west coast][3]!! I wasn’t part of organizing the west coast conference at all but I got to attend and it was wonderful.
+
+Running a conference is a ton of work and I feel really lucky to get to do it with such great co-organizers – there have been at least 20 people involved in organizing over the years and I only do a small part (right now I organize sponsorships for the east coast conference).
+
+This year we also incorporated the [Exclamation Foundation][4] which is the official entity which runs both conferences which is going to make organizing money things a lot easier.
+
+### I understand how the business works a little better
+
+Earlier this year I signed up for a business course called [30x500][5] by Amy Hoy and Alex Hillman. They’ve influenced me a lot this year. Basically I signed up for it because I had a business that had made $100,000 in revenue already but I didn’t really understand how the business _worked_ and it felt like it could just evaporate at any point. So $2000 (the cost at the time of 30x500) was worth it to help me understand what was going on.
+
+Amy and Alex both just the other day wrote 100-tweet threads that have some of the ideas that I learned this year in them: [Alex on creating sustainable businesses][6] and [Amy on design][7].
+
+I was hoping to build a system for selling printed zines in 2019 and I didn’t get to it – that’s probably my one concrete business goal for 2020. I tried out Lulu for printing in the hopes that I could experiment with print-on-demand but the quality was awful so it’s going to be a bit more work.
+
+### blog posts and things
+
+In 2019 I:
+
+  * wrote 29 blog posts
+  * published 2 [zines][8] (Bite Size Networking, HTTP: Learn Your Browser’s Language) and wrote most of a third
+  * published 1 box set of my zines ([Your Linux Toolbox][9], it’s in Real Physical Bookstores!!)
+  * did some experiments in interactive SQL/server exercises, which I’m excited about but are sort of on the back burner right now. Maybe I’ll go back to them in 2020!
+  * made the same business [revenue][1] as in 2018 (which I was thrilled about)
+  * gave 0 talks (which was a goal of mine)
+
+
+
+The blog post I’m happiest to have published this year is definitely [Get your work recognized: write a brag document][10]. I’ve seen quite a few people saying that it helped them track their work and it makes me really happy. A bunch of people at my old job adopted it and it’s one of the non-engineering projects I’m most proud of having done there.
+
+Publishing this post about my [business revenue][1] was also important to me – in the past I loved blogging, but I didn’t think it was possible to make a living by explaining computer things online. And I was totally wrong! It is possible! So I think it’s important to tell other people that it’s a possibility.
+
+Having a Real Traditionally Published Book out is also really cool, I could not have imagined [4 years ago][11] that I could go to an actual bookstore and buy the little 16-page zine I wrote about how much I love strace.
+
+### what went well
+
+some things that were good this year:
+
+  * spending time understanding why the business works the way it does instead of just guessing
+  * collaborating with many great people on !!Con to do a big thing together
+  * I’m happy to have given myself the time/space to do whatever it is I want, even though it’s a big adjustment
+  * writing things that help people a little bit with their careers (the brag documents post) is nice
+
+
+
+some things that are harder:
+
+  * I used to have a lot of really amazing coworkers at my job, and right now I’m working much more by myself. I definitely miss having so many great people right there to talk to all the time.
+
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+via: https://jvns.ca/blog/2019-year-in-review/
+
+作者：[Julia Evans][a]
+选题：[lujun9972][b]
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+[a]: https://jvns.ca/
+[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
+[1]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/10/01/zine-revenue-2019/
+[2]: https://bangbangcon.com
+[3]: https://bangbangcon.com/west
+[4]: https://exclamation.foundation/
+[5]: https://30x500.com/academy/
+[6]: https://twitter.com/alexhillman/status/1209252239501647874
+[7]: https://twitter.com/amyhoy/status/1209693440872603651
+[8]: https://wizardzines.com
+[9]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/10/21/print-collection-of-my-first-7-zines/
+[10]: https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/
+[11]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2015/04/14/strace-zine/