Graduate my PhD and get hired in industry. Hopefully in a job that affords me enough leisure time to work on personal projects, of which I have many cooked up but undeveloped at this stage. Exercise more regularly.
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#12I decided to note on a daily basis what I learned over the day. To commit to it, rather than being a note in a note book, I made it as a blog[1] on which I post daily. It is badly written and really incomplete but as it is mostly for myself, I have no issue with it.
The ultimate goal is to see what I learned over a year so I can better appreciate the progress I made, rather than only base my retrospective on feelings. It might also be useful to find what I learned but can't put the name on it, or find links to interesting things I found several months ago.
To help staying focused, I decided to fix goals and rewards. The first reward is on January 1st if I haven't skipped a single day from when I started.
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#13This is the year I'm finally going to learn front end, just enough to prototype. Don't roast me alive, but I'm thinking of starting with jQuery. It seems much more learnable for a web stack beginner, and probably serviceable for a long time to come for someone who mainly prototypes ideas that need an elemental gui.
In my experience, jQuery isn't so much a tool that you learn in its entirety, but a swiss army knife you pull out when needed. It's among the most heavily referenced web libraries on SO and the like, making it pretty easy to find answers with a "______ jquery" google search.
Best of luck in your front end journey!
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#14Get my personal finances in order. I have no debt, a good savings going, and a decent chunk in a 401k from a previous company. Other than that, I have done basically no investing and I know I'm leaving money on the table.
s&p 500 + real estate if you can.
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#15o continue to grow my meditation practice
o pickup an aws cert
o close 5x new projects
o travel 3x
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#161. Read a book a week. This is doable if i dedicate an hour a day to reading and I pick books that end up being page turners.
2. Play my electric guitar for an hour at least every other day.
3. Put $1000 a month away in my savings account.
4. Learn to implement some basic computer science algorithms in JavaScript. I don’t know how to do binary trees or hash tables and I’d like to be able to teach them at the Javascript fundamentals meetup I run once a month.
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#17Spend less time on the computer. Everything else will follow!
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#18I have had a couple of techs I've been wanting to try out and now I finally have the time and drive to do it.
For starters, I'm in the middle of a complete blog rewrite (running away from WordPress), using: Hugo and Bulma.
I'm also upgrading my fullstack tech-stack to: Elixir, Phoenix, Vue.js, Ansible. Used to do: Ruby, Rails, Angular.
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#19Get my personal finances in order. I have no debt, a good savings going, and a decent chunk in a 401k from a previous company. Other than that, I have done basically no investing and I know I'm leaving money on the table.
s&p 500 + real estate if you can.
What real estate do you have? I bought a home but the only benefit I see is that some of the money I used to spend on rent now becomes equity (but not all).
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#20More exercise
Get back to drawing something every day. Preferably the big comics projects. But anything is far better than nothing.