I finally want to get more physical activity and find time for me.
Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution for 2024?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution for 2024?
#12I have a few goals that I’m already working on, because I believe you can resolve to improve yourself at any time and you don’t have to wait for the start of a new year… but my goals that I’d like to achieve in 2024 is to run a couple of half marathons. Ideally one will be in another country.
I also want to work on my strength training because I generally hate it and need to change my attitude towards it as I feel like as I get older it’s more important to make sure my body works how it’s supposed to. I’m also going to do physio to hopefully help reduce pain in my archilles tendons.
I’d like to negotiate a substantial pay rise at work, and I’m also going to get them to pay for one of my Masters degree’s, which will help for my skills to be more internationally recognised within the medical field so I can travel and work in more places.
I am also planning to graduate in June, and am starting an additional Masters in July, so hoping to do well in that too.
I’d also like to buy a house, but that’s tricky, if that doesn’t work out, then I’m going to do a trip to Japan with some of the money I earned by doing extra contract work over and above my usual job during the holiday season.
Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution for 2024?
#13Get deeper into fundamentals of ML. Train my own models. Get deeper into electronics, learn how to design PCB boards and build little AI toys.
Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution for 2024?
#14Getting away from time wasting things like mindlessly scrolling Reddit. I realized about a month ago it has slowly grown into an addiction... nothing to do? Pull out the phone and scroll. Now I'm limiting myself to consuming content differently. Checking HN once or twice a day. Using RSS to subscribe to blogs I find interesting instead of having my content fed to me. With the time I'm getting back, I'm putting a lot…
I recommend using Feedly to organize and browse your RSS feeds. I've been using it for over a decade now!
Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution for 2024?
#15Getting away from time wasting things like mindlessly scrolling Reddit. I realized about a month ago it has slowly grown into an addiction... nothing to do? Pull out the phone and scroll. Now I'm limiting myself to consuming content differently. Checking HN once or twice a day. Using RSS to subscribe to blogs I find interesting instead of having my content fed to me. With the time I'm getting back, I'm putting a lot…
if you happen to use NextDNS or an equivalent, i added reddit to my list of blocked domains so if there is something i want to read on there it has to be worth disabling my ad block temporarily.
Not a bad idea! I'll look into it :). The temptation is real all the time.
Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution for 2024?
#16Getting away from time wasting things like mindlessly scrolling Reddit. I realized about a month ago it has slowly grown into an addiction... nothing to do? Pull out the phone and scroll. Now I'm limiting myself to consuming content differently. Checking HN once or twice a day. Using RSS to subscribe to blogs I find interesting instead of having my content fed to me. With the time I'm getting back, I'm putting a lot…
I recommend using Feedly to organize and browse your RSS feeds. I've been using it for over a decade now!
I used to use NetNewsWire, so I redownloaded it. I'll check out Feedly... never afraid to evaluate new tools.
Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution for 2024?
#17Sell my current side-project.
I started working on it as a student to learn how to build for people, some selling skills, and earn a little money if possible.
Now that I don't have to spend much time on it every month, I intend to finish a few more things over weekends and sell it so that I can start working on something fresh.
I just haven't learnt how to hire and get people to work - let's see if I can try that too while I try selling :)
Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution for 2024?
#181440p. But seriously, to continue to support free libre open-source software and hardware in whatever way I can, even if the alternatives aren't quite there yet for some things. Plasma Mobile is shaping up to be very interesting indeed.
Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution for 2024?
#19Start writing, get my name out there, talk openly about my business ideas. Have fun talking to like-minded ppl.
Stop bothering so much about my well paid engineering job, pays the bills, nothing fancy to make a big deal out of!
Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution for 2024?
#201440p. But seriously, to continue to support free libre open-source software and hardware in whatever way I can, even if the alternatives aren't quite there yet for some things. Plasma Mobile is shaping up to be very interesting indeed.
What are some libre projects that you are most passionate about? I'm looking for some to dive into.