Ask HN: 2018 resolutions? • Hacker News Board

jurassic wrote: post #100

Improve my Spanish vocabulary by extensively reading at least one million words of Spanish. I’m currently at the level where I can read about 12 pages of Harry Potter per hour without a dictionary, or faster with Readlang. One million words is about the length of the entire Harry Potter series. Continue my porn-free streak to prioritize real life sexual experiences.

Good luck on learning a new language. Be careful that when writing in Spanish you also have someone check that your Spanish is correct. Otherwise, you may be practising something wrong.

Re: Ask HN: 2018 resolutions?

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Post by tomjen3 » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 9:15 AM UTC

b0rsuk wrote: post #109

sharmi wrote: post #59

* Exercise Everyday (intensity/duration may vary, but never ever miss) * Make healthy diet changes one at a time (Very very hard to do. Try to do multiple stuff and drop them all. ) First change, start with raw veggies in the morning. * Delta-debug how to get into flow state as many time and as fast as possible (Kramer's rule from below, couldn't be better stated). For starters, work on one and only one thing at a ti…

I advise against daily workouts. You'll end up overtraining. You need days of rest for your muscles to grow. A common advice is either 3 days of general exercise, or 2 leg days + 2 upper body days. Note some exercises can't be pidgeon-holed that way, like swimming. This is currently my favorite training program: http://www.50pullups.com/ You get the essential exercises: pushups, squats, pullups, with advice how to tr…

You can do cardio on the not exercise days.

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Post by 0b01 » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 9:17 AM UTC

Start planning my time in blocks.

Don't spread myself too thin

Start commenting on HN

Sleep before 12am

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Post by chillacy » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 9:21 AM UTC

starpilot wrote: post #42

Ask out a girl in person and forget about online dating. Get my hiking rate of ascent to 2,500 ft/hr.

I haven't found a greater thrill in life than meeting a girl in day-to-day life (like at the supermarket). Always a mixture of deep fear and excitement, despite any attempts to rationalize the heart-pounding away.

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Post by arkona » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 9:22 AM UTC

rayalez wrote: post #138

1. Complete my SaaS projects and generate enough revenue to become ramen-profitable. 2. Keep up the habits I have finally developed: - Clean diet - staying away from bad food, coffee, nootropics. - Exercise - running every day. - Coding every day - learning from courses or adding features to my projects. - Writing every day - working on blog posts, video scripts, or at least writing quora answers. - Writing at least…

> staying away from coffee

Huh? Why?

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Post by chillacy » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 9:24 AM UTC

JSONwebtoken wrote: post #118

Afforess wrote: post #85

I don't like resolutions. They are lies we tell ourselves, false promises from our present self about our future self. If you actually believe you can accomplish your resolutions, you don't need a manufactured holiday, like New Year's, to decide to change your life. Any day of the week should work. Don't wait until 2018 - start today.

If resolutions were so powerful, why not have monthly, weekly, daily, or hourly resolutions? Imagine the things we could accomplish if all it took was to attach a goal to a discrete unit of time. My new day resolution is to get some more sleep.

A lot of companies set quarterly goals, that's probably not a bad idea. Also, goals need to be etched into habits to work, and values determine goals, so it's worth introspecting all three at a time.