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Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?

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Post by JEDI-HACKER »

fy20 wrote: post #24

To spend less energy on work. For the last year I've been working a job where I need to be in the office in the mornings, have a few hours break in the afternoon, then have meetings in the evening. By the time I'm done I'm completely drained, and more often than not my kids are already asleep. I've come to the conclusion that however hard my team and I work has basically zero impact on the company as a whole, compare…

Work smart, not hard.

Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?

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Post by senectus1 »

vl wrote: post #32

I don’t do resolutions, I’m just trying to do what I did before, but better. Like you have to do every single day.

yup. same here.

Though I did decide i need to better document my tech fiddlings within the house better.. so I just run up a tiddlywiki for internal documentation and am spending the day filling that out :-P

Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?

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Post by shric »

I released a double pendulum video in August 2021 and after a year it got about 100 views. It was almost my only video. About 2 weeks ago the YouTube algorithm somehow decided to pick it up and it has of the order of 100,000 views.

So 2023 I want to make an actual effort to create some content and see if a decent amount of people view it.

Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?

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Post by vorpalhex »

fy20 wrote: post #24

To spend less energy on work. For the last year I've been working a job where I need to be in the office in the mornings, have a few hours break in the afternoon, then have meetings in the evening. By the time I'm done I'm completely drained, and more often than not my kids are already asleep. I've come to the conclusion that however hard my team and I work has basically zero impact on the company as a whole, compare…

Set a "work budget". Maybe this is eight hours a day or a more flexible 40 hours per week.

Do the most high value work with those hours possible until your work budget is zero.

Stop working until it recharges.

Decline meetings that are too late. Ignore unimportant emails. Go spend time with your kids who are literally growing up without you.

All jobs will take what you give. It is on you to set boundaries.

Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?

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Post by richardw »

I don’t feel like I have the luxury of a NY’s resolution but I have a lot of change coming.

I’m both excited and wary of next year. I’m moving countries, to a more expensive city (Sydney), a bit too old to break into a new network. Fair chance of a recession next year.

But the restrictions create an interesting puzzle. I like optimising. I’ve got a couple safety nets: at least 4 months remote to land and find my feet, wife has solid role if all hell breaks loose, and some very interesting money-spinning projects I’ve been involved in. If I just do what I’ve done, for new clients, I should be good!

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