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Re: Ask HN: What are your long-term goals?

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Post by codepie »

hliyan wrote: post #34

Develop a framework for teaching people (and children) critical thinking, mental discipline and emotional control. The first part is relatively easy, the second, harder and the third, the hardest. How am I going to do that? First, I suppose I need to get to a point in my career and personal life where my finances are good enough that I don't have to decide where I spend my effort based on the income it'll bring me.

>First, I suppose I need to get to a point in my career and personal life where my finances are good enough that I don't have to decide where I spend my effort based on the income it'll bring me.

This. Waiting for the right moment to start working on your long term plan is, according to me, not a good idea. Instead of taking a giant step after some point of time, consider taking small steps on a regular basis.

I really like your idea, would you like to discuss how are you planning to approach this problem?

Re: Ask HN: What are your long-term goals?

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Post by contingencies »

My philosophy is "find interesting work that contributes something to society and makes money without screwing over other people or the environment". Thus, in a small way, leave the world a better place.

Other than that, develop my current venture to a successful exit and watch my kids grow up.

I do have some more out there, what if, pie in the sky type long term ideas...

Sail with my family around the Caribbean for a couple of seasons (too much of Sid Meier's Pirates!?).

Finish editing and publish my social/anthropological documentary on a weird community I used to be part of.

Publish my photographs.

Open a museum to Ecstasy in the place of its original synthesis, Darmstadt.

Open a museum for the Australian ACMS historical computer collection.

Digitize and classify my antique postcard collection (20,000+) and allow others to upload.

Spend a few decades in one place gardening and enjoying the results.

Make more art.

Help others, especially smart and motivated young people, to achieve their goals. Might like to do something accelerator/VC/mentorship related here. Or maybe take a leaf out of Alan Kay's book and focus on education for awhile.

Might be fun to re-read this in 10 years ;)

Re: Ask HN: What are your long-term goals?

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Post by TheAdamAndChe »

Career-related: I want to get and keep a good job with actual growth potential. I am finding that it is incredibly tough to get into the IT field when you don't work in a tech hub of the country.

Family-related: I want to create and manage a family emergency fund, something that my close relatives can dip into if they run into trouble. I'm still trying to think of a way to structure it. Poverty is an issue in my area, and I'm finding that many of my relatives would be better able to create and meet medium- and long-term goals if their short-term situation was a little less precarious.

Retirement-related: I want to save $2.4 million as quickly as possible. That would give me a safe annual withdrawal rate of ~$60k, meaning any money saved or earned beyond that per year could go towards charities, family funds, or my kid's 529 plan.

Re: Ask HN: What are your long-term goals?

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Post by monk_e_boy »

contingencies wrote: post #42

My philosophy is "find interesting work that contributes something to society and makes money without screwing over other people or the environment". Thus, in a small way, leave the world a better place. Other than that, develop my current venture to a successful exit and watch my kids grow up. I do have some more out there, what if, pie in the sky type long term ideas... Sail with my family around the Caribbean for…

Weird community? Hints plz

Re: Ask HN: What are your long-term goals?

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Post by cygned »

My long term goals: build a house (https://www.huf-haus.com/) and concentrate more on the study of Buddhism. In addition, learn to ride a horse (my wife has two, but I never had the time to ride them). So I guess my plan is to end my career as soon as possible.

I am working on it; wo of my companies will have an exit within the next five years, so at the beginning of my 30s I should have the foundation to work less and study more.

Re: Ask HN: What are your long-term goals?

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Post by callahanrts »

pg_bot wrote: post #14

Reduce health care spending in the US by 50% without decreasing quality of life or life expectancy. Started a company that is trying to achieve those goals.

Near end of life procedures? A friend in health care told me 60% of one of our biggest hospital's costs go toward end of life (patient will die within weeks) treatments. Understandably, people request all the most expensive procedures because they don't want to let their loved ones go.

Re: Ask HN: What are your long-term goals?

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Post by hasana »

agentultra wrote: post #28

Something I've become passionate about in the last couple of years is reliability in software and professionalism in software development. I feel like we're at an inflection point where the cost of developing formal specifications is coming down enough for more teams to be using them in their practice. I'd like to continue that trend to allow more developers to use pure maths to solve their problems and use computers…

This is something I think about from time to time as well, I haven't been able to see how to actually implement this in a real project. When I studied Computer Science, I had a particular interest in formal design, (studied Eiffel breifly) but haven't seen that aspect of it translate into my work. I work in enterprise web application development, and the way projects are estimated, resourced and budgeted (in my experience) doesn't seem to offer any opportunities to try this. (Or I just haven't been smart enough to make a plan). How would you go about creating a formal specification, to build something like a Facebook Messenger bot for an e-commerce store? Or something simpler like a Angular driven warehouse catalog application?
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