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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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Post by zoontek »

1. Stop shipping open source libs for a bit, focus on maintenance of the existing ones

2. Ship a SaaS I started working on

3. Improve my sleep

4. Improve my cooking skills

5. Read more books

6. Watch fewer, but better movies

7. Make a few talks

9. Spend more time with my family / my friends. Spend less with the kind who are not really your friends after all

10. Disconnect even more from social medias

11. Learn something new (could be anything)

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

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Post by kenjinp »

This year I've learned a great deal by experimenting with game development. I've learned elixir, started to learn rust, and acquired a great many skills like distributed computing that I would never have touched in my day job. I hope I can continue spinning that flywheel for my self-inspiration.

Goals: 1. Continue building my web-based MMORPG https://firmament.kenny.wtf/ 2. Get better at French (I'm an expat living in Geneva, CH. My language level is inexcusable.)

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

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Post by p0d »

c7DJTLrn wrote: post #29

I'm thinking of resigning first thing. I took the Christmas break to mull it over and came to the conclusion that I'm not happy where I am anymore, even if it is comfortable and decent money. Once I'm settled into a new job I'm hoping to get on to the property ladder so I can have my own space. I'd also like to get a bit fitter so if I can find the courage I'll try going to the gym. In the meantime I'll continue with…

I left my IT job two years ago and things have worked out just fine. I've become a lecturer in further education which I really enjoy. I also lost 70lbs by changing my diet a bit and walking for 45 minutes a day. Good luck. It's a good idea to have something lined up. I had something temporary to pay the bills for six months then took it from there.

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

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Post by tluyben2 »

leetrout wrote: post #65
tluyben2 wrote: post #32

I didn't want to do new years resolutions this year, but when contemplating not doing any, I came up with more than any year before this... I have them jotted down in great detail, but basically; 1. Make 100k$ with creating and selling something. I have done this a bunch of times before but became complacent working on my main project. So that I want to attempt. 2. Build something VR. The Quest 2 (both because of Imm…

Can you share more about other things you have made and sold?

Most were a while ago (hence the complacent part), but I made a hosting panel (those were popular little over 10 years ago) and sold that (made well over 100k$ in a few months), hosting company hosting millions of sites/apps, a proprietary CMS company, a company that sold games related stuff, a dating site, a PoS system+hardware and a bunch more things. They were all side projects at the time besides the CMS company (which managed to get to 400 staff before I sold) and all ran almost automatically after the onramp efforts. Also, and this seems a weirdo thing here on HN, if I had partners/co-founders (and with most I did), for almost all of these goes that I have never seen or even voice talked with them. I did not know them before, we met online and just assumed trust. We made good money just over text chat. And that's how I ran the CMS Corp as well (as cofounder/cto). I want to do that again in 2022.

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

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Post by Takizawamura »

Build up an evening ritual to complement my morning ritual, which is centered around coffee, meditation, and exercise.

I aim to have a structured, deliberate evening ritual leading up to bedtime. I plan to read a comp sci book for 30 minutes, a book in a foreign language for 30 minutes, and then light reading for another 30 minutes. All on a 10" ereader.

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

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Post by patall »

My personal goal will be to go windsurfing again and, maybe, get into foiling. Ultimate goal would be to do trips under sail in Stockholms skärgård. Until it gets warmer again, I will have to fall back to ice skating (and to learning swedish).

Professionally, I am happy and excited to start new projects now that my thesis is submitted and I finally have time to explore novel computational biology data set.

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

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Post by bacro »

Takizawamura wrote: post #77

Build up an evening ritual to complement my morning ritual, which is centered around coffee, meditation, and exercise. I aim to have a structured, deliberate evening ritual leading up to bedtime. I plan to read a comp sci book for 30 minutes, a book in a foreign language for 30 minutes, and then light reading for another 30 minutes. All on a 10" ereader.

How much did you pay for that 10'' ereader? I would love to have one as well but the prices are absolutely inflationated.

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

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Post by germinalphrase »

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 UX. I feel skeptical of boot camps, but here in Minneapolis the impression seems to be that Prime is a useful ‘box-check’ for obtaining a junior position. Any Twin Cities HN’ers have insight into whether (or to what degree) that’s true?

I feel apprehensive about the “flood of junior candidates, dearth of senior talent” dynamic.

Thoughts/comments/connections would be appreciated.

Email in profile.

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