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Forget New Year's Resolutions and Conduct a 'Past Year Review' Instead

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Brian Christner
December 30, 2020

I took the above picture this morning (New Year's Eve) of the moon setting behind the Swiss Alps and on 2020 (it pays to get up early). Watching the moon set really brings closure to 2020, on the ups and downs. As we close out 2020, we could focus on all the negatives, but instead, let’s focus on the positives and start planning 2021!

Happy New Year to you!

I have to dig this article from Tim Ferriss out of the archives. Creating New Year's resolutions which fall away usuallly before the first week of February makes little sense. Instead I have always reflected on my previous years accomplishments. Give it a try and you will appreciate your year even more.

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OK, Brexit is finally a thing now. But the details of the deal are what are really interesting. Politicians basically copied and pasted text from the 90s about the tech to be used to communicate between the UK and EU using Netscape Navigator and SHA-1. Both have been obsolete since about 1997. After more digging by the author, it appears that EU laws are riddled with old tech guidelines. Yikes!

…That’s this week’s theByte newsletter!

-Brian