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

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

#82
I have appointments for two different therapists coming up this next week, have been losing 2 pounds a week for like a month on average, and am in a job I actually want to stay in for the first time in years. So mostly just continue and follow through with all of the above.

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

#83

I'd like to learn a little Italian, I should keep trying to pickup bits of French too. If anyone knows any technology based news sites in Italian it would be really helpful

I haven't personally used LingQ, but it seems to be the best way to pick up new languages. It provides a feed of news in other languages with a neat vocab tracker! I haven't learned a language with it yet, but I'm very interested. There's also an excellent interview with LingQ's creator.

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[1] https://www.lingq.com/en/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKg23ZFURX0

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

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Many don't realize how much control porn has over them until they try to quit. Quitting for 1 day, 1 week can be easy. Quitting for a year? Almost everyone who regularly watches will struggle to do so. Don't let the struggle discourage you. If you give in, try to get back up asap. Even if you don't make it 100% porn free year its not a failure. Wish you the best.

I don't understand why one would quit porn. It's great entertainment. It increases quality of life. It's an integral part of one's sex life. Why would one want to quit?

I hear that cigarette smoking is also very pleasant, especially after meals, while thoughtfully gazing at a landscape, with coffee after waking up, etc. /s

https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/

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

#86
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- Read more books/long form essays. - Less Procrastination - Less reading the tutorials and start doing more "practical" stuff. i.e. write more code. - A blog post a week on my measly blog - https://blog.yelinaung.com/ - write anything that I find fun and learned! - Find a new job!

How do you plan to procrastinate less?

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

#87

After 13 years in big tech, I want to make my approach to work more strict and avoid things that I really don't like. loop do job.work_your_ars_of! unless job.nil? job = Job.new if job&.jira? || job&.pr_reviews? end

What I actually find is that teams that don't have jira or pr reviews have something else. They have the most senior people engaged and watching what is going on. Instead of being asleep at the wheel and requiring you to follow the process.

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

#88

This year I'm focused on trying to grow my Patreon. It's for a niche NES game development hobby that I don't expect to pick up any real steam, but I'd like to see if I can get enough side income from it to de-stress my day job a bit, let me consider a soft-retirement down the line where my primary income isn't the only thing keeping the ship afloat. I think that'd be a nice long term goal, but it's not remotely feasi…

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

#90

Just be myself and never plan anything. Nothing ever goes to plan.

That sounds like a good plan :)

On a more serious bend, though, if you don’t plan ahead at all, after a while life’s random walks tend to lead to low energy dead ends.

So even if you don’t set out with a plan for everything, then at least do some regular (eg weekly) reflection, so as not to lose your bearings.

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