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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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throwawayboise wrote: post #210

Declutter my house and life. I don't think I am a "hoarder" but I am sort of a slob. I like the feeling when my house is organized but it seems to take a tremendous amount of time and effort for me keep it that way, and I think I have too much stuff (especially clothes) so it's hard to keep it all under control. I think this will take some deliberate work to change habits (e.g. start small with something like "never…

> e.g. start small with something like "never go to bed with dirty dishes in the sink"

I recommend starting even smaller with “wash at least one dirty dish before going to bed”. Chances are you’ll wash all of them, but you need to be able to still count it as a success on days when you just cannot make it past one.

As for cleaning, I have a once in a while thing where I feel like cleaning, and I trash about 10% of the clutter each time, saving some 40% more because I think I might need it. Every cycle removes another 10% of what was previously the 40%. It’s not perfect, but it has sort of stabilized the situation.

I still have whole boxes of clothes I can probably trash since I never use them, but I’m attached to them for historical reasons. Taking a picture before throwing something away helps.

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

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Post by Aeolun »

yboris wrote: post #172
germinalphrase wrote: post #80

I currently teach high school English. There is a great deal about the job that feeds my soul, but my engagement with the work has shifted markedly over the last few years and is starting to impact my happiness, my optimism for life, and my ability to be the husband and father I know I am. I believe it’s time to do something else. Several conversations with tech folks lead me to believe that I would do very well in U…

I was a math teacher for 5 years and have switched to web dev 5 years ago and have been loving it. I did have a bunch of personal web-dev experience, so it made switching careers pretty easy. But I wanted to share that it seems doable. Since a lot of tech work is still people work (communicating clearly, managing expectations, etc), I suspect you'd be a better candidate than someone straight out of college.

Some of the best tech people I’ve met were history teachers in a previous life :P

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

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Post by Aeolun »

2sk21 wrote: post #224

2021 was my first full year of retirement and I really enjoyed it (I retired at the end of 2020 after working thirty years in software research). In 2021, I plan to work on my model train layout, some robotics projects and continue learning Swift. If things go well, I plan to release a MacOS app for personal knowledge management.

Sorry to hook onto this, but why does everyone want to make a personal knowledge management app? I mean, I recognize the impulse, but I think I’m mostly attracted by being in full control of the code, not lack of features.

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

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Post by wheelinsupial »

Aeolun wrote: post #260
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…

Someone told me they set a meeting from 6pm till 9am next morning on their calendar (Outlook) that was marked as “Out of Office”. I didn’t know you could do that, but without fail, their online status switches to OOO at 6pm. I think it’s really good for setting expectations.

You should be able to set your working hours in Outlook. You specify days of the week and start and stop time. In your calendar when people look to book meetings in times outside of your office hours the time will be grey or some other shade.

My notifications in Teams and Outlook stop coming to my phone in my off hours. You may need to go to the phone settings and change notifications to say do not notify outside of work hours or something similar.

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