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Duty: * Make sure that if I do nothing else, and barring a collapse of society, I don't have to work for anyone else again. * Make sure my wife can stop working
by JabavuAdams 18y ago
Duty:
* Make sure that if I do nothing else, and barring a collapse of society, I don't have to work for anyone else again.
* Make sure my wife can stop working for others, too.
* Make sure my daughter can afford to go anywhere for higher-education. If she doesn't want to go to school, provide her the ability to try startup ideas.
* Make sure my parents and parents-in-law are looked after.
* Keep my relatives provisioned with computers, and buy my Dad copies of Mathematica and Matlab.
* If I have sufficient funds, make sure my relatives can study anything/anywhere they want, as long as their marks are sufficient.
* Prepare to leave some money to various causes.
Fun:
* Actually spend the summer playing tennis, instead of in crunch mode.
* Take my parents to Wimbledon, the French Open, the US Open, and the Australian Open.
* Re-activate my Scuba licence, and spend some time diving.
* Go sky-diving
* Go on a "shooting range tour" where I fire all those guns you only see in games and movies, and to some kind of CQB training.
* Learn to fly a plane
* Learn to fly a helicopter
* Re-learn how to ski and spend more time doing that.
* Spend more time playing piano. Maybe learn the cello, the violin, or guitar.
* Spend some time in extremely remote locations, like the high-seas, in mountains, or underground.
Non-Commercial Research:
* Read even more. Make sure I've read the classics.
* Spend a few years really learning Physics, at least up to EM with relativistic effects, QM, and GR.
* Learn cell and molecular biology fundamentals.
* Research Superconductivity.
* Research computer vision, motion control, learning, and memory.
* Research and implement a lifestyle that maximizes my own cognitive abilities, even if it's eccentric.
* Re-learn French and German. Learn Mandarin and Japanese.
* Research and implement programming languages.
* Research meta-programming.
Make:
* Build a legged tele-operated or autonomous robot.
* Build a submarine
* Start or contribute to open-source projects in games, simulation, and education.
* Start a game studio.
* Become a competent illustrator
* Make an animated short.
* Make a smart sci-fi film
* Build a virtual CAVE.
... you get the idea ...
- JabavuAdams 18y ago... learn how to format HN posts ...
- jlsonline 18y agolol at least you can do that one for free... Having said that, I saved some money and took two years off to pursue all of my life-interests (mine, in fact, are quite similar to yours) but when it came down to it, I surfed the web, played games, did a small amount of programming and just doddled around all day for the majority of my time off. Then I went back to work. To me it comes down to one thing: purpose. If you have no specific purpose, you just get caught-up in day-to-day living. The main thing I learned in my two years off is that I can accomplish 99% of what I want to do with my life whether I have a job or not.