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I have a few various things I'm trying to achieve in 2020. - Reduce meat consumption significantly. I do enjoy meat and cooking dishes like slow roasted meats but I started eating beyond meat/fake meats in 2019 and loved them. In a couple of dishes I literally couldnt tell the difference. I think when things get to the point where they taste as good/better than the product they're intended to replace, why not embrace…
- write more blog posts
- learn, learn and learn new technologies
- try to raise correctly my newborn
- read books
Family
2019: Dinner with family 4/7 nights a week (success, mostly)
2020: Continue status quo
2019: 10 vacations and/or road-trips and/or weekend get-aways (success)
2020: Increase to 14
2019: Park/Recreation together 20 of 40 non-winter weekends (success)
2020: Continue status quo
2019: No non-emergency office work on weekends (complete failure)
2020: Aim for more realistic 8 or less weekends in office spent on non-emergency work
Health
2019: BMI 30 → 25 (complete failure)
2020: BMI 30 → 25
2020: 25% reduction in triglycerides
2019: Gym 3x week (success)
2020: Gym 3x week -- but with HR reaching cardio zone at least 30 cumulative min each visit
2019: Bike/Walk to Work at least 20% non rainy/snowy days (success)
2020: Bike/Walk to Work at least 40% non rainy/snowy days (success)
2020: Added Goal: Cumulative Bike+Walk+Peloton mileage of 1000mi for the year
2019: Track all meals with data (failure, tracked ~20%)
2020: Track all meals with data
2019: Sleep no later than 3am every day except 5/yr (failure)
2020: Sleep no later than 2am every day except 5/yr, use weight training to force exhaustion
Personal Growth
2019: 12 books for the year (wild success)
2020: 24 books for the year (audio or dead-tree), double-time with exercise hours
2020: Added Goal: 24 long-form articles (audio or dead-tree), double-time with exercise hours
2019: Write 5 blog posts (failure)
2020: Write 12 blog posts
2020: Create Podcast Series with at least 5 episodes
2003-2019: Read Atlas Shrugged (failure)
2020: Read Atlas Shrugged
Training
2019 Three certifications in tech I want (failure -- did only 1 -- on NVIDIA RAPIDS)
2020 Certifications: Fast.ai; Azure Cloud (any 2 certs); Google Cloud (any 2 certs)
2020 One CGE at grad school with credit
2020 One CGE at grad school just auditing
Career and Networking
2019: 3 talks/presentations at conferences (success)
2020: Continue status quo + 1 major main-line talk
2020: 3x/month talks/meetups
2020: 2/year meetups speaker/presenter
2020: Meet 2/month new interesting people
2020: Dinner with former work colleague 1/month
2020: Phone catch-up with former work colleague 2/month
Job
2019: Mentor 3 interns (success)
2020: Mentor 3 interns
2020: Three brand new demos for marketing Achieve 95% test coverage on my code
Family Office
2019: 5 deals (failure)
2020: 52 in-person meets with angel-stage teams
2020: 10 deals (albeit smaller dollar amount) or high-conviction PME, if that is better
Side Hustle
Convert 3 of my graduate school projects into working projects (not business successes, just working projects to ensure I have the tech process locked down.) Outsourcing and managing is OK, delivery is the key here.
Tinkering
2019: Play with Jetson Nano (failure)
2020: One mini-demo with RPI
2020: One mini-demo with Jetson Nano (colab w/ friends OK)
2020: One mini-demo with Google Coral (colab w/ friends OK)
2020: One mini-demo with Azure Kinect DK (colab w/ friends OK)
Arts
2020: Discover 5 new amazing artists i’ll listen to forever
2020: Finally finish watching series I love (The Americans, The Good Wife)
Self Organization
2019: No loose articles (everything in Evernote/Pocket) (FAILURE)
2020: No loose articles (everything in Evernote/Pocket)
2020: No one-off reading -- everything through RSS reader or tracked
My primary goal is to make more environmentally conscious decisions whenever possible. I'm thinking along these lines: - buy minimal necessary amount of stuff in general - choose local, seasonal and less-packaged stuff when buying groceries - choose independent and environmentally conscious producers over large multinationals - drink tap water and loose leaf tea instead of drinks packaged in plastic bottles - consume…
1) Avoidance - do what I have been avoiding OR want to avoid doing
2) Connecting - connect with a person on a meaningful level
3) Water/Giving - Give encouragement, time, or mentorship to another
2 Daily Feelings I want to cultivate in my life:
1) Gratitude - being grateful
2) Value - Did I add value in my work?
Escape from my golden handcuffs
Leave the Bay Area