I'm happy with my software career at the moment and I think I'm on a pretty good "auto-pilot" for progressing. I want to focus on my physical health this year. I'm about six months in of consistent weight training and it's been fantastic. I look better and I'm noticeably stronger. I want to continue my 30-45 minute, 4 day per week workouts through this next year. The big addition that I've struggled with the most is…
I bought a rowing machine and just toss on some game of thrones and row for 35 mins. Good way to start the day.
Oddly enough, for 2025 I would say writing. I would normally think that with the rise of LLMs, writing would be come obsolete. Interestingly though, I think LLMs make good writing more valuable and at the same time more rare.
> I would normally think that with the rise of LLMs, writing would be come obsolete If LLMs obsolete writing, then they will also obsolete reading. Why waste time on reading texts when you know that no effort has been put into creating them, when they do not encourage trust, or sparkle joy.
Writing. My ability to write is highly dependent on the context. I'm much better at essays than emails, and fiction is completely outside my abilities. I would also like to change my style a little to be less flowery and more succinct. More Paul Graham than purple prose. Marketing. I'm hopeless at it, and I need to be at least OK at it in order for my project ( https://nuenki.app ) to succeed. Time management. I'm ve…
> Physics and maths! I'm in my gap year at the moment, but I want to be prepared for my physics degree next year. I'm already really quite rusty.
You should really check out Math Academy! It'll diagnose where your gaps are and build you up to all the math you need for a physics degree and then some [0].
1) Learn AWK deeply, in which I will meticulously go through a copy of the original 1988 book. 2) Get better at Git. 3) Study and pass the RHCSA. 4) Get better at troubleshooting Linux servers. I can actually feel my skills improving when I can find the actual root cause of an issue, and not just a symptom that is irrelevant. (Thanks, sadservers!)
The authors actually just released a second edition of the AWK book!
Non-technical skills * (Continue) Dancing - Beginning of 2023, I got into street style dance and movement (including stretching which I've done now for the past 223 days) helped me get through one of the most challenging periods of my life (i.e. divorced with a child, moved from U.S. to London to single raise my daughter). Dance has now taken its life of its own and I'm finding myself competing in dance "battles" as…
I got into Dancing after a breakup as well. I would advise to learn couple dancing as: * Zouk (and if you are already doing street style dance, you will love black zouk) * Bachata (there are so many Bachata dancers around the world, that any country or trip you do, you can go into Bachata socials and make local friends all over the world) * Tango (it is the hardest dance to learn, but it has the best connection of al…
Never thought I would see zoukMX mentioned on Hacker News. Funny, because I've signed up for next year for 1st time!
Definitely recommend couple dancing in general as well and dance congresses. I've met so many people and shared so many experiences ever since I started dancing and going to congresses.
> Don't look at the phone or computer in the morning Avoiding wasting time is okayish but it pales in comparison to the state where you are naturally drawn to doing things that you consider to be more important.
Honestly i think these are the same though. I'm never _less_ drawn to doing important things than when i watch youtube for the first hour or two of the day. Starting the day with a complete dopamine dump (i don't know if it's correct physiologically but it feels like it) really kills motivation and thus avoiding it really makes the day productive. Since I've noticed in myself, it make a lot bigger difference than one…
I would agree that watching phone in the morning tends to make things worse but avoiding it does not automatically lead to being productive. For me at least.
- Learn Rust so I can contribute to some open source tools I like - Self hosting; got a raspberry PI; hoping to self host a bunch of things on in - Continue studying/deep-diving various topics. Networking, docker, Linux, databases - Marketing, Sales and SEO - Make some changes to my Neovim config - Make some changes to my QMK keyboard
Would love to help you learn rust. What’s the best way to reach out?
- Learn Rust so I can contribute to some open source tools I like - Self hosting; got a raspberry PI; hoping to self host a bunch of things on in - Continue studying/deep-diving various topics. Networking, docker, Linux, databases - Marketing, Sales and SEO - Make some changes to my Neovim config - Make some changes to my QMK keyboard
Me too on Rust, self-hosting, and devops stuff! Good luck.
Would love to help you learn rust. What’s the best way to reach out?
Non-technical skills * (Continue) Dancing - Beginning of 2023, I got into street style dance and movement (including stretching which I've done now for the past 223 days) helped me get through one of the most challenging periods of my life (i.e. divorced with a child, moved from U.S. to London to single raise my daughter). Dance has now taken its life of its own and I'm finding myself competing in dance "battles" as…
Would love to help you learn rust. What’s the best way to reach out?
Writing. My ability to write is highly dependent on the context. I'm much better at essays than emails, and fiction is completely outside my abilities. I would also like to change my style a little to be less flowery and more succinct. More Paul Graham than purple prose. Marketing. I'm hopeless at it, and I need to be at least OK at it in order for my project ( https://nuenki.app ) to succeed. Time management. I'm ve…
Would love to help you learn Git. What’s the best way to reach out?