Read 34 books. Zadie Smith's essays "Changing My Mind" was my favorite.
Met in person some smart and interesting people: Amber, Johanna, Faris, Mike, Lauren, Bud, Clay, Chad, Jonah, Michael, Adam, Ivan, Alan, and Michael Lebowitz. Also met a lot more of them online.
Worked for some smart and interesting people: Rick, Benjamin, and Noah at TBG and Gene at HUGE.
Read 52 issues of the NewYorker. Favorite articles: "Hellhole" by Atul Gawande, "The Fifth Blade" by Adam Gopnik, "Nightmare Scenario" by Margaret Talbot, "Searching for Trouble" by Ken Auletta, and "Offensive Play" by Malcolm Gladwell.
Wrote 88 pages of my dissertation.
Ran probably around 400 miles, and swam around 50.
Published 2 articles in AdAge.
Went to Croatia and back.
Ate 26 lb of meat.
Read countless blog posts and articles. I found a lot of them noteworthy and organized them by topic: digital; design; branding; user experience; finance; economics; psychology; sociology; fashion; theory; social media; and marketing.
As a result, spent 2,920 hours in front of the computer this year.
Bought 1 iPhone. Also bought 1 computer chair.
Attracted 612 Twitter followers, and 46 new Facebook friends.
Got into ? unnecessary conflicts with people.
Enjoyed Diana Hong's blog.
Lost 1 internal organ (appendix).
Took 563 photos.
Spent $321.21 on iTunes.
George Parker attacked me 1 time on his blog.
Saved 2,188 bookmarks on Delicious.
Spent $$$ on clothes and travel.
Went out 200 times.
Was 1 time a guest speaker at BeanCast.
My articles in AdAge attracted 63 and 94 comments. 50% of them were vicious and personal.
Saw 130 movies this year. Went to movie theater 26 times. Favorite movies this year: "Anvil: The Story of Anvil", "Fantastic Mr. Fox", "12" by Nikita Mihalkov, "Up", and "New York, I Love You".
Got 78 points in 1 Scrabble move.
Made 2,206 Twitter updates.
Had a lot of fun in 2009. Happy New Year.