Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

51–60 of 297 posts

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

#51

Post by browie »

scrollaway wrote: post #15

Happy new year, HN. I'm a huge believer in CGP Grey's thematic year system ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE ) in place of resolutions. After outstanding successes two years in a row with the system (first year with my physical health, second year with my work and finances), I'm doing a "year of relationships" where my focus will be general social and romantic recoveries. Especially since, in the last two…

I just found out about this video, and Tildes too. Thank you for sharing! Would you be kind enough to invite me to it?

Either way I think I will be doing a “year of discipline” for 2021. I feel that I know my wants and needs but I am mostly just going with the flow in regards to everything.

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

#52

Post by Ygg2 »

1. Finish XML5 parser I left to languish for quite a bit.

a) Help the man who made Html5gum, and inspired me to work on my own parser, by helping him with HTML5 parser.

2. Learn to program Rust games.

3. Finish the goddamn puddle spilling for SS14.

Happy new year, all!

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

#53

Post by splittingTimes »

mazokum wrote: post #3

Happy New Year! I am in the same line as you, I don't have any "new year promises" but I will try to focus on my health: eating better and training more. This is discussed in a video I think is specially relevant today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE

I will watch you :). Can we request topics?

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

#54

Post by levesque »

kmarc wrote: post #49

* 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…

I love that one of your goals is to not spend personal time on professional development, I feel like this is such a controversial topic right now.

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

#56

Post by oars »

youknowhoe wrote: post #50

I have two * Build muscle * Kickstart my love life I had success with the former in 2021 but the latter was a bust. I intend to keep trying. If a late bloomer has something to share, I'd love to hear that.

Nothing to share directly, but I just want to point out 2021 was not a great year for finding love. Don't be so hard on yourself. Keep trying in 2022, it will be much better.

And you're already making it easier for your future yourself by building muscle. Keep training hard. I wish you all the best.

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

#57

Post by levesque »

youknowhoe wrote: post #50

I have two * Build muscle * Kickstart my love life I had success with the former in 2021 but the latter was a bust. I intend to keep trying. If a late bloomer has something to share, I'd love to hear that.

Relationships are hard, they require constant effort. Beyond being an attractive human being (i.e. take care of yourself, physically and mentally), it's all about emotional intelligence and communication.

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

#58

Post by Winterflow3r »

youknowhoe wrote: post #50

I have two * Build muscle * Kickstart my love life I had success with the former in 2021 but the latter was a bust. I intend to keep trying. If a late bloomer has something to share, I'd love to hear that.

I was a late bloomer in the latter (like very late due to being overweight for most of my teens and early 20s) and I don't have any big wisdom to share except don't lowet your standards and let people treat you like crap just because you think you're getting on the train very late in the game.

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

#59

Post by nojs »

NextHendrix wrote: post #25
beyondcompute wrote: post #11

Consume less = exclude myself from certain kinds of social relationships with other people, show less appreciation to the labor of inventors, engineers and people who make stuff with their hands (appreciation in action, not just in words)? Everyone is entitled to live the way they prefer (within certain limits), of course! :) But I would want to “consume better” instead of “consuming less”. Consume things made sustai…

Show less appreciation?

I think they meant consuming less means showing less appreciation, since by consuming you’re purchasing something somebody made which is a form of showing appreciation.

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

#60

Post by richardcrossley »

youknowhoe wrote: post #50

I have two * Build muscle * Kickstart my love life I had success with the former in 2021 but the latter was a bust. I intend to keep trying. If a late bloomer has something to share, I'd love to hear that.

I had the opportunity to travel and I met my better half as a result of that trip.

My advice, do something that takes you a bit out of your depth, you could meet new people as a result.

Post reply on HN