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Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by saint_angels »

smokel wrote: post #22

There is so much to learn (automated theorem proving, graph neural networks, reinforcement learning, theory of mind, ...), yet so little time. Any tips on how to prioritize?

I suggest choosing one main direction for a fixed period of time(like a month) and sticking with it, without distractions on other interests. After period ends, you select a theme for the next one. imo helps with getting through the boring/hard parts and seeing results.

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by Gigachad »

okl wrote: post #45
Gigachad wrote: post #39

Tbh I feel like I have done everything I want to do at 23. Now the only real aim left is to make as much money as possible just for the challenge of it.

How boring.

Eh, I bought a decent apartment in the city and go out partying with friends every weekend. But in terms of needs, I could stop putting in effort right now and live comfortably for basically forever. But I’m still working hard at gaining new skills with the aim of eventually getting something really high level like CTO.

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by addictedcs »

My goal for the next year is just to work fewer hours. Covid pushed my work habit to the extreme, and I need to rebalance.

1. Read more books, less social media/news.

2. Spend more time with my friends. I haven't seen some of them IRL for more than a year.

3. Exercise more, play tennis with my daughter, spend quality time with my kids.

4. Spend more time with my parents. They've become visibly older in the last years, an observation that scares me.

5. Focus more on marketing for the businesses that I've bootstrapped. All the shiny new features that are developed are not as important as getting more people to use your product.

6. Promote open-source project to 1k GitHub stars[1]. I know it isn't very meaningful, but it's just nice to receive a bit of recognition from the community.

7. Enjoy life, don't stress about all the little things that happen along the way.

Happy new year!

[1] https://github.com/AddictedCS/soundfingerprinting

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by spodek »

Building on the success of my podcast, This Sustainable Life, where I've led globally renowned people (you'll know many: https://joshuaspodek.com/leadership-and-the-environment-top-...)

1. Keep building the podcast

2. Publish my next book, on sustainability leadership (in conversations with big publishers already)

3. Continue my mission: to help change American (and global) culture on sustainability and stewardship from expecting deprivation, sacrifice, burden, and chore to expecting rewarding emotions and lifestyles, as I see happen with everyone I lead to act for their intrinsic motivations.

In my case the emotions have been joy, fun, freedom, connection, meaning, and purpose.

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

#49

Post by kmarc »

* learn languages

* don't spend free time on professional development.

I have a great job and very good salary right now, but it pisses me off how slowly I can pick up basic words/sentences when I travel. I'm very bad at learning (speaking mostly) a new language, and I figured right now my career doesn't need me to be better at random new tech, but my soul needs some help when it comes to communicating in a different country :-D

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