Next year: Going full-stack to remove other devs from my projects and make more money per hour. Also getting the skills to build a whole product myself.
After: Founding something myself.
Ask HN: What are your long-term goals?
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#52Retire by 40
I thought the same thing, but I’d have no idea what to do without work. If I didn’t have to save for kids college, I could retire now at 46. Other problem is 401k can’t be accessed until 60. Retire for me just means enough FU money, but I’ll probably work till I drop dead.
By retiring, I mean not having to work to survive. I'm aiming for an income of around $20,000/year.
Then, I'll be able to work on what I really want, without worrying about income.
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#53By the illustrious Prof. Jordan Peterson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vAat1HQU0M Some brilliant advice there on breaking down long-term, often vague plans ("save the planet") to practical, actionable steps and expectations ("clean up your room").
I see your Mr Peterson (whom I love), and I raise you with the inimitable and sporadically brilliant Slavoj Zizek - whom I fucking hate so much that I love too. Happiness is an unethical "cut-ay-gory": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U88jj6PSD7w (For those you aren't aware of his tick, don't watch, just listen)
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#54Long-term: I plan to die.
Short-term: I plan to use my very short time on this planet to enjoy as much as I can.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought the same thing, but I’d have no idea what to do without work. If I didn’t have to save for kids college, I could retire now at 46. Other problem is 401k can’t be accessed until 60. Retire for me just means enough FU money, but I’ll probably work till I drop dead.
By retiring, I mean not having to work to survive. I'm aiming for an income of around $20,000/year. Then, I'll be able to work on what I really want, without worrying about income.
You’d probably need $400k in investments.
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#56Develop 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 real…
Well, recently I find myself approaching every problem of psychology with the starting point: "The human brain is a neural network, therefore..."
I'd like to somehow develop some new techniques based on this (as opposed to all the prevalent ones you find in self-help books). Right now I can't afford the time, but I should be able to make some headway next year. fingers crossed
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#57Yes. I run the behavior-change company Pavlok[1] -- our goal is quite massive -- to help 100% of people achieve 100% of commitments they set. That means, ending addiction, 100% adherence to diets, etc.
We create technology (the Pavlok wearable, and the Shock Clock at this moment), offer coaching, create courses, and much more to build the world's first truly effective behavior change platfom.
I wrote a FB thread about our mission and how we broke it down recently. "For the rest of my life, I'm committed to one mission.
Upgrade Humanity
It becomes one goal, broken into two parts, and 3 stages.
One goal: invent the vaccine that cures humans from not doing what they say they will do. Absolute (100%) success --- or I have failed absolutely. (same success rate as the smallpox vaccine)
Broken into two parts:
1) End addiction
2) change the meaning of money from "money is what other people pay me to do what they want me to do" to "money is where i get paid when I do the things I want myself to do"
And the 3 stages are encapsulated into our mission statement: "Upgrade Humanity."
1) Break bad habits that hold us back
2) Form good habits that help us become who we could be
3) Create new sensory inputs (sixth sense technology) to augment and increase human capabilities
Anything that isn't in line with that mission needs to move the fuck out of my way. "
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#58TL;DR: I don't have long-term goals. I am setting short-term goals (at most a decade) and then re-evaluate my life purposes and begin again. I don't really have goals longer that one decade from now. I don't really know what I want to have by the age of 80(im currently 29) so I am not concentrating there. I do know a few things I would like though and those are money and to still be working with interesting things th…
> I don't really know what I want to have by the age of 80 I do know what I want to have: my health. Health is kind of relative at that age, but I'm working now to be the healthiest 80 year old I can be.
Alright, so this kind of values I am constantly trying to have regardless of the current goal I am in. Wealth, health, education, etc are on my schedule every day.
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#59Lifetime goal: being kind to everybody at all times.
Means to achieve it: first, became aware of every time I am not being kind; later, analyze the circumstances that lead to that behavior, so that I can prevent them in the future. This sometimes requires undoing bad habits.
I do have other goals, but they are much less important.
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#60Achieve perfect health. Grow younger and more capable if the medical technology gives us those benefits.
I have absolutely no intention to fix healthcare.