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

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Post by bigcloud1299 »

Get back to cross fit. Get down to 160 from 177. MBA, Covid, job and new baby took that from me. Get my 6 pack back.

I am struggling to get into 700k pay job (Atlanta metro) and higher scope ( I have 150 people org). I aspire to be CIO Of fortune 200 some day. so improve my interview skills by improving communication skills

Continue to : Read 1 book a week Read 1 article from MBB or HBR and Watch 1 tech video per day.

Start writing articles on leadership, strategy and macroeconomics.

Invest better - invest in a new business in India.

Increase my contribution to VC i have invested in as well as time I give as board of director to two of series B companies.

Spend 1 hour minimum with my 11 year old in her studies (besides the outside tutorials she has each day)

Spend more time with my 20 month baby.

Most of all improve my leadership skills, communication skill with everyone.

Become super patient, better listener.

Reorg my team - fire couple of underperforming folks. Set right expectations and accountability with my directs (director level)

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

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Post by yodsanklai »

marvin wrote: post #76
camhart wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Exactly. It causes no harm. I'd rather have more real sex, but in the meantime porn is the best substitute available.

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

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Post by mab122 »

I want to start keeping a journal and by journal I mean having daily note with:

- In the morning: make a list of what I want/have to do - doesnt have to be exhaustive just write SOMETHING.

- TIL - "Today I learned" section with anything in it that caught my eye that day.

- At least 2 sentences about how I felt or experienced today

I am hoping this will help me being organized a bit more and maybe some of it will be usable in terms of publishing it on my website as fully fledged post or even just short note about cool stuff I found.

Plan is to not make any of this tiresome and to just create a habit out of it.

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

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Post by surprisetalk »

asicsp wrote: post #25

Work: * update my already published ebooks rather than working on a new one, will likely take more than a year * create interactive apps for exercises * contribute to FOSS (been doing some small PRs, filing issues etc, want to do more) * find something new (that's not related to writing) to keep me creatively busy Personal: * this month I finally went for a trek after about 5 years, planning to make it a habit again…

> * find something new (that's not related to writing) to keep me creatively busy

I'm a hobby collector! Feel free to to reach out at hello@taylor.town if you'd like to chat about creative outlets :)

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

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Post by tazjin »

De-technologify. Ideally this is the year where I stop having a smartphone, very few active use-cases are left for that for me. We'll see ...

Professionally, I have some plans for TVL with our Nix rewrite in terms of CI systems and interesting developer tooling. IME, making it too concrete reduces the chance of it getting done though, so I'll leave it at that :)

Oh and also, get back to using Bulletjournal properly.

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

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Post by thewrongthinker »

- Sign a new contract, my target is $1000 per day, but seeing how the economy is atm, I’ll probably be ok with anything over $750 per day.

- Buy the penthouse I’ve been saving for. With a bit of luck the housing market will crash and I’ll get it at a discount.

- Sign up at least one more client for my side hussle consultancy.

- Cross the 100 n-count mark.

- Start aviation lessons.

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

#100

Post by yodsanklai »

I just canceled my Twitter account. I tried to stay far from it, because I know it's potentially addictive. I've had an account for a year, without posting anything. And I recently started to comment and argue with people. This thing is toxic (well, at least for me) and bring the worst out of people.
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