My 2017 resolution was to become involved with my local and regional community (outside of tech). It has been a tremendously fulfilling experience. My 2018 resolution is to do more public speaking/teaching in it. I am done doing the usual fitness, diet, etc. ones. I either do them already or not at all. But these new ones that took me three decades to try have been more fulfilling and more fun than anything else.
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#12Put work into starting a podcast.
Make some progress on my reading list (just kidding, it'll grow forever)
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#13Sorry
Comments from a couple of people who left tech and started life over:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16043552
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16043669
Offered as food for thought from someone who has spent a lot of time suicidal. Maybe part 1 of your goal can negate part 2.
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#14Improve attractiveness by 10x
Why?
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#16Less consuming, more creating. Doesn't matter what it is, doesn't matter if it's bad.
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#17I found this line in an old blog post from 2013 in my drafts folder.
> But honestly, I've been thinking back, trying to remember the last time I felt like I was really in control and being the person I wanted to be.
That was 5 years ago and I now realize I've felt like that almost the whole time, with brief breaks. My goal is to treat this as a real problem and solve it.
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#18Get a Higher resolution display (around 4k maybe) and be more ergonomic in general.
Release an Open Source Project and develop it for a year.
Turn my comments into blog posts instead of just comments.
But most important to have fun!
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#20- Continue with habit forming practice
- Run and exercise at least 3 times a week
- Delta-debug how to get into flow state as many time and as fast as possible