What's the Use of a Year-End Review?

Recurring themes, slings and arrows, and what comes next

There’s something a touch strange about crafting a year-end review of one’s work. Is it really for you that I’m reflecting on a year’s labour in this way? Or are posts like these more of an open exercise in diary-keeping, which subscribers tolerate from all the newsletters they follow in late December because it’s just The Thing People Do at this time o…