Ask HN: Would you like to share your goals/resolutions for 2017?

#1

Post by tyagis » Mon, Jan 02, 2017, 2:06 AM UTC

I think it helps to share your aspirations with fellow HN patrons. It'll hopefully inculcate some reinforcement towards the will to achieve those.

Mine are: 1. Read one book every week. 2. Proper diet and exercise and aim for gaining at least 20 lb muscle mass. 3. Reach substantial milestones for the personal projects that I started last year.

Have a happy new year!

Re: Ask HN: Would you like to share your goals/resolutions for 2017?

#2

Post by ladytron » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 2:04 AM UTC

I want to read excellent books. Not articles online, but BOOKS. I read enough computer science in the day job, so I want to read anything BUT CS. Biography, novels, art, math, etc.I want to get lost in good reading.

Re: Ask HN: Would you like to share your goals/resolutions for 2017?

#3

Post by tyagis » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 7:36 PM UTC

ladytron wrote: post #2

I want to read excellent books. Not articles online, but BOOKS. I read enough computer science in the day job, so I want to read anything BUT CS. Biography, novels, art, math, etc.I want to get lost in good reading.

Great choice! Over the last few years I have realized that even while reading articles online, my brain has resorted to skimming through them to grasp only the useful bits. This does not usually help while reading a technical paper or a book per se.

Any books that you have in mind?

Re: Ask HN: Would you like to share your goals/resolutions for 2017?

#4

Post by ladytron » Sun, Jan 08, 2017, 2:37 AM UTC

tyagis wrote: post #3

ladytron wrote: post #2

I want to read excellent books. Not articles online, but BOOKS. I read enough computer science in the day job, so I want to read anything BUT CS. Biography, novels, art, math, etc.I want to get lost in good reading.

Great choice! Over the last few years I have realized that even while reading articles online, my brain has resorted to skimming through them to grasp only the useful bits. This does not usually help while reading a technical paper or a book per se. Any books that you have in mind?

Not yet. Every time I see someone at my local coffee shop with a real dead tree book I ask them about it. I just found a book today at the thrift store called "Women of the West" which is full of photographs and diary entries from women pioneers. I think I will start with that.