A year-end retrospective covering personal growth lessons (discipline, physical health, focusing on controllables), newsletter milestones (34,791 readers, 9,000+ new in 2025), and plans for 2026 including potential twice-weekly publishing and machine learning content. Includes curated lists of the year's best articles across algorithms, distributed systems, and software engineering topics.
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End-of-year reflectionsThe Polymathic Engineer in 2025Best Articles of this yearThank youSort: