It’s no secret–I am a fan of the quantitative. Similar to what I did last year, I’ve compiled the past year’s achievements and memorable occasions and now present them in numerical form.
- Over 500,000 visitors to OverthinkingIt.com
- Over 25,000 job placements by NYC’s Workforce1 Career Centers
- Over 20,000 visits to last year’s “Hubbert Peak Theory of Rock” Overthinking It article, many of which came after it appeared on Gawker, Boing Boing, and the front page of Digg.
- 47 posts on Overthinking It, including an article on “Slumdog Millionaire” that’s now the number 1 Google search result for “20 million rupees”
- 5 weddings
- 2 days reporting from New York Comic-Con
- 1 promotion
- 1 song for George Soros
- 1 move to a new apartment
- 1 new member of the family – my niece, Maren Myung-Ja Wall, born on the last day of the year!
This year was not without hardships and difficulties, but I can say that overall, it was a pretty good year. In 2009, I’ve learned, unlearned, loved, lost, laughed, cried, celebrated, mourned, and done everything else in between. I anticipate all of that–and then some–in 2010.