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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 crytting »

New Year's resolutions fail when they aren't engineered to last and direct you for the entire year. If you aren't reflecting on what it did to you and your life on December 31st, 364 days after setting it, then the resolution failed.

Setting any resolution that won't fit this description is dangerous for a couple of reasons: First, it both will be a failure and will teach you failure. Also, it will distract from the resolutions that could have been successful ones.

You should only set one NYR until you have successfully done one for an entire year, because it's incredibly hard and you probably aren't capable of one, let alone more, until you show that you are. After one successful NYR, you've earned the right to try two, the year after that three, and so forth.

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

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Post by rileyphone »

2021 has been the best year of my life and I am even more excited for 2022. I am currently planning an ambitious software project that I hope will help people understand the world better. I have rediscovered my love of reading and plan to keep that up (my reading list is growing too fast). Also, I’m getting married this year so I want to keep working on being a better partner and communicator. Cheers!

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

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Post by bjacobt »

ChrisGammell wrote: post #126
bjacobt wrote: post #117

1. Get customers for my SaaS - https://www.tollspot.com 2. Make ship able customer test units for my hardware project related to #1 - custom PCB, presentable enclosure, remote management, etc. 3. Get comfortable going to trade shows to market 1 & 2 and present to group of people (this is going to be difficult due to my personality and I’ve been a developer all my life, so I’m terrified of the transition to business s…

Looks cool! What hardware platform are you targeting?

Thanks! I’m using the LTE module with ARM Cortex M4 from particle.

https://store.particle.io/collections/soms/products/b-series...

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

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Post by hnthrowaway0315 »

Happy new year!

- Find the pivot point from where I can move into a career of low level programming eventually. First stop is probably going to be a data engineer.

- Find activities that both my boy and I enjoy. So far I haven't found many so I'm frustrated. Hopefully this improves this year as he grows up.

- Maybe swim more? I really hate physical exercises but swimming is a rare exception.

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

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Post by luhego »

Happy New Year!

My goals for this year are:

1. Become proficient in Java and React.

2. Learn more about AWS services and cloud architectures and patterns.

3. Learn more about distributed systems.

4. Make reading a book per month an habit.

5. Make exercising three times a week an habit.

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

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Post by AAthrowaway »

aserdf wrote: post #122
nomadiccoder wrote: post #108

I recently read Atomic Habits by James Clear, and also listened to some process philosophy from Steven West's Philosophize This. One takeaway that I had was on the danger of setting goals. I am trying to build a mindset of 'becoming' or to embrace the journey of the goal rather than really trying to achieve a specific milestone. - I want to reduce/eliminate my alcohol consumption to become a person that doesn't rely…

> I want to reduce/eliminate my alcohol consumption... same here. each year it just takes more and more out of me physically/mentally, this year really seemed to emphasize that. looking for 6 months here and then will re-evaluate. in the past breaking a sweat when the urge/opportunity arises has been pretty effective.

I have found AA and the community as a whole welcoming. I’ve spent the last 18 years of my life try to “control” my drinking. Not drinking on work nights, staying sober for months at a time but I always found myself down that slippery slope. The pandemic and work from home made it 1000% times worse. I didn’t have to shower or commute. I’d roll out of bed login, do standup and start drinking. It never affected my work. I’ve always gotten rave reviews. AA has changed my life in regards to family, physical well being and work. YMMV but if you’re interested the AA site has pdf versions and audio versions of the big book. The big book was an interesting read for sure.

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

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Post by alexchamberlain »

hnthrowaway0315 wrote: post #144

Happy new year! - Find the pivot point from where I can move into a career of low level programming eventually. First stop is probably going to be a data engineer. - Find activities that both my boy and I enjoy. So far I haven't found many so I'm frustrated. Hopefully this improves this year as he grows up. - Maybe swim more? I really hate physical exercises but swimming is a rare exception.

> Find activities that both my boy and I enjoy.

Do you want ideas? If so, how old's your boy and what have you tried?

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

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Post by tr1ll10nb1ll »

In no particular order,

- Grow the side-project I'm working on.

- Be more consistent with my output.

- At every point during the year, I hope to be working on something.

- Build music-related tools and projects.

- Work more on my music and put it out there on streaming services.

- Read more.

- Be proficient in a Web3 tech stack.

- Contribute to comma.ai

- Be less political

Happy New Year!

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