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Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?
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#282Do 40 hours a week at work, clock off and not think about anything else computer related. I spent from 2012-2020 job hopping to gain new experience, recover from a lot of…bad career decisions…, and more money. Now I make “enough” (not mind blowing by tech standards), enjoy my job and there is no larger place for me to hop to for my specialty. It was officially 10 years in May that my career turnaround started.
Stay on budget with our new lifestyle. My wife and I settled on being “hybrid digital nomads” for the foreseeable future. Live in our investment property/winter home from October/March and fly across the US staying in hotels for the rest of the year. This year we got rid of house, cars and everything else that wouldn’t fit in three suitcases.
In that same vein, find “something” interesting to do at least every weekend in whatever city we are in while traveling. Our itinerary puts us in 13 cities next year.
Run a 5K. I last ran over a decade ago. While at 49, I’m not trying to put my body through the grueling training it took to do a half marathon, from my recent training, I don’t see any reason that I couldn’t get back to an average pace.
Eat better.
Learn Spanish. I started using DuoLingo 3 months ago. One of the places on our itinerary is three weeks in Los Cabos. I want to at least be able to muddle my way through speaking Spanish.
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#283I want to use my phone less. I don’t want to use it at all during idle time. Instead, I’d like to fill that time with reading books, drawing, and journaling. If I can get my phone use to under 2 hours per day, I think I’ll be more mentally healthy.
The area I need to work on the most is phone use before bed. I don’t know how to fall asleep quickly, so I use my phone to kill time until I eventually fall asleep. I think if I can find a way to stop using my phone before bed, I’ll wake up better rested and be able to have more productive days. Yet that first requires me to figure out how to become tired at an appropriate bed time rather than lying around for an hour and a half with a swarm of thoughts.
I sometimes wish I could ditch my phone entirely. However, it’s important for me to have communication paths to message friends, so I need my phone for iMessage.
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My past resolutions, which were successful include: losing weight to become fit, giving up meat, and eliminating social media. Hopefully I can make my new resolution successful as well.
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#284Excited about my goals this year - thanks for asking this... (1) I am building a community Makerspace / entrepreneur incubator lab in Latin America (related goal: Learn Spanish!). Agile product development methodologies, pairing, open-source product designs - High quality people, practices, tools, products and clients (and snacks). - If this is your jam, hit me up. I could use the help! (2) I'm learning Ruby & Rails…
Would love to hear more about (1) but an extended stay in latin america probably isnt in the cards for me. But anyway I love the coworking / maker / incubator places and I think the world can always use more.
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#285I am sick in the bed for 4 days, so I thank you for posting here and thus giving me a chance to improve my moods!
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#286Get a job!
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#287Make My Wife Pregnant Again --- might well make and sell merchandise.
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#288I've never been much into new year's resolutions, but perhaps if I actually write it down, then some of them will come to fruition? - tidy up my stuff, sell some of them off - play more video games - learn a bit of Japanese - learn how to fall asleep anywhere - convert some of my mass into muscle mass
You can combine "play more video games" and "learn a bit of Japanese" into "play more video games in Japanese only"!
It helps you practice listening to and reading Japanese.
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#289Launch a bunch of AI toy products to keep up to speed with SoTA and make some money!
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#290I have quite a few different resolutions, namely:
1. Find somewhere else to live. I'm getting tired the area I'm living in, and feel a change would be most welcome in 2023.
2. Eat more healthily and get in better shape. I have to admit, I really like chocolate and sweets a tad too much, and exercise a tad too little. So dealing with that would be nice next year.
3. Finally, I really want to wrap up a lot of my side projects and ideas I've had for a while, since I start a few too many things that I don't get around to finishing. I've got scripts for videos that have laid dormant for months, my main side project has been incomplete since about 2013, and there are tons of other things I want to code that I've mapped out, but never properly started. Finishing off these would get rid of a fair bit of stress hah.