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Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2013?

50 points by pavs 14y ago

I was just doing my 2013 and wanted to know how others manage (what software/notebook/) and what they put in their Yearly Plan or todo list.

mailshanx 14y ago
-Submit my thesis and get my Masters -Publish my masters work in the leading IEEE conference in my area. -Move to Europe to live and work there -Learn more CS, particularly in the areas of natural language processing and distributed computing. (My academic background is in EE). -Get fitter. Hit my strength goal of 1xBW bench, 1.5x squat and 2x deadlifts
latch 14y ago
I plan on writing another free ebook.
- okal 14y ago
  OT, but I love your work. I've learnt a lot of what I know from free resources, which inspired me to start http://hackershelf.com http://hackershelf.com. Just out of curiosity, why do you do it?
  - latch 14y ago
    I like to write, I find it rather therapeutic.
- onlyup 14y ago
  What was the first one?
  - latch 14y ago
    I wrote the Little RedisDB Book and the Little MongoDB Book, and Foundations of Programming long before them
- sycren 14y ago
  another? what other books have you written?
richo 14y ago
Build more cool shit on the internet.
- onlyup 14y ago
  Cool, what are you going to make? And what did you make before?
  - richo 14y ago
    Short answer to both questions is https://github.com/richo https://github.com/richo More specifically, I have an HTTP kernel in scheme that I want to get compliant to the spec and release, and a gossip driven task/issue tracker that I'd like to get out.
platzhirsch 14y ago
Write my master's thesis, graduate and get a job in the Bay Area or NYC as a software engineer.
mflindell 14y ago
Finally launch my hobby web app into the world. Usually when you think of a new year you think in big projects and not the small things that make up the big ones. So I guess ill be fixing lots of little bugs ;)
j2labs 14y ago
Here's answer: http://j2labs.tumblr.com/post/38951909060/a-few-days-before-2013 http://j2labs.tumblr.com/post/38951909060/a-few-days-before-...
- j2labs 14y ago
  Does anyone else have the typo issue where you forget an entire?
edanm 14y ago
Grow my software consultancy (PurpleBit) in several ways: – Build and launch at least 3 major products for our customers (in addition to the projects currently in the pipeline). In addition, take on some smaller fun projects, perhaps charging value based instead of time+materials based. - Hire additional employees. Goal: be a 7-10 person consultancy by year's end. - Start taking projects in a specific niche and build a reputation as the premiere consultancy in that niche. - Start additional promotional projects, for example teaching software courses in Web/iOS for local developers to solidify the consultancy's brand.
gghootch 14y ago
- Continue on the path of graduating cum laude. - Publish three academic papers. - Get a job. - Start a side project which actually has a chance of making some money. - Find the woman of my dreams.
xradionut 14y ago
Currently I use OneNote to manage projects and such. I've yet to find a really good cross-platform tool that works as well. Plans for 2013, more OSS, less MS. More coding, less managing.
- RossM 14y ago
  You might like Evernote, I didn't but it is cross-platform (+web). I've taken to just using a wiki now.
  - onlyup 14y ago
    I didn't either. It's definitely good for recording things but I think OneNote has other strengths that make it way better.
minhajuddin 14y ago
- Build a useful open source project using go - Get a few paid customers for two of my products so that I don't have to work on other's projects. (http://substancehq.com http://substancehq.com, http://schoolone.in http://schoolone.in)
michaelmartin 14y ago
I always start a new pocket moleskine in each new year, and the first page always has my goals for that year. I generally split it up into 3 or 4 business goals, and 3 or 4 personal ones. I like having them written down somewhere physical because you end up seeing them quite a lot (The moleskine lies on my desk for most of the year), and I tend to keep the notebooks when I'm done (They're small, so it's no big space consumer). That means that after a few years, you still have the lists and can start to see what sort of things have come up a few times and still not been done (Get fitter...), and how your goals have changed. It's not a big fancy review exercise, more of a nice thing to flick over from time to time.
dotborg 14y ago
find a girlfriend
damniatx 14y ago
- Create more application for iphone and android. - finishing my intern. - Graduating. - Take a photo with my parents infront of my university.
kator 14y ago
I'm not a fan of "New Years Resolutions". IMHO it's a false point in time to force a process you won't follow through on anyway because the driving factor is the random reality that day on the calendar happened to pass by that we've assigned importance to (i.e. New Year). That said I believe in constant, on-going goals analysis and review. On a daily basis I review my goals for the day. On a semi-random basis I review my goals for other random-lengths of time. Usually triggered by passing through or letting go of another goal on my roadmap. Meanwhile on a fairly regular basis I review my personal "core goals" and see if my current progress and goals are in alignment. If they're not I either rework my core goals or rework my "working" goals to align. Sometimes I do this on the subway to work and other times on a beach while on vacation. I think setting goals at the beginning of the year really has no impact on the reality of your life. That said it's not a bad idea to look at your "core" goals. Rather then say "I'll loose 25 lbs this year" say "I want to be healthy for the rest of my life". And then identify some short, mid and long term goals to obtain that overall "core goal". Often if I find myself overwhelmed by life I will stop and review my "core goals" and make sure everything is in alignment with those. Or I change them to meet what I really want in my life "now". When I was younger I had very different "core goals" then I do now and I'm comfortable that sometime in the next 0 to 24 months those might change as I review what is meaningful and rewarding to me in my life. As an example my primary goal is to "Live my life in my passion". This has actually been true for most of my life starting sometime while I was in high school. Clearly my "passion" has changed over time but the "core goal" remains the same and drives many of my decisions in my life. That said some other "core goals" of mine have changed though my life as I've progressed through various phases and transitions in my life. Your "core goals" when you have young children are most likely very different then when they've all moved out and are living their own lives. :-) Be flexible, be alert and true to yourself, find your "core goals" and then develop your short, mid and long-term goals driven from those. And as always, be willing to change them as you and your life changes.
- kolinko 14y ago
  How do you know the problem is with resolutions/goals and not with your process of setting them? The way I see it, most people have a bad process of setting their goals. It causes them to always pick the same ones (e.g. lose weight, stop smoking, change a job), and never follow through (e.g. because they always approach the goals using the same methods, like "I will eat less", or "I will have a strong will this time"). I've been setting my goals according to one of Tony Robbins' workshops for the past 9 years now, and it's amazing what it helped me to accomplish. In short, my process is: - split it to material goals, self-devel goals & career goals - for each section, brainstorm by writing down dosens of goals I want to accomplish in my life - then for each brainstormed goal I write down whether I want to achieve it by 1 year, 2, 5 or 20. - out of 1 year goals I choose three of each kind (9 total). The above causes me to choose things that are really important, not just "top of the mind" - I surprised myself quite often by discovering that some things I considered could wait. Then, for each of the 9 goals I write down: - why do I want to accomplish it - the first step, something I can do instantly. The first step quite often propels me towards achieving the goal, and the reason is a nice reminder of why I wanted to achieve it. So far, the track record was quite nice. Out of 9 goals I accomplish 3-4 in any given year, but it's still a lot. The rest are quite often accomplished a year-two later, thanks to the path I initiated on the first year. Or abandoned when I discover that the reason is no longer relevant. Finally, I don't think it's about New Year's. It's about doing an occasional, annual, overview of where you're going and what you accomplished. As much as it's important to constantly track your progress, you cannot ask yourself "where am I going", "what do I want from life" every day or every week. Those are the things one should ask & modify only once in a while. (edit: I built an iOS app for this process. I hope nobody minds the plug: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/goal-setting-workshop-+-simple/id408425741?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/goal-setting-workshop-+-simpl... . I'd give away free codes here, but don't have any left of this version. )
rdl 14y ago
Finally launching my startup.
wamatt 14y ago
To think small
sainib 14y ago
My goal is to get at least 100 paying customers by the end of the year for my product - http://www.tourzilla.com http://www.tourzilla.com
- onlyup 14y ago
  Would this scale if you're editing the videos manually?
endlessvoid94 14y ago
Focus on my health.
edw519 14y ago
To accomplish something every day, no matter how small. (365 little things * the probability they'll get done) > (a few big things * the probability they'll get done) I did this in 2012 and am still shocked at how much more I accomplished than in any other year. All those little things + their compound interest turned out to be a bigger result than anything I could have planned. Who knew?
- andyakb 14y ago
  could you give a few examples of what you would define as little things? do they all work towards a bigger thing, or are they typically unrelated?
- fbr 14y ago
  Interesting, do you have any example of what you've done in 2012?
kisamoto 14y ago
Not exactly a resolution but here's mine: - Launch a new start-ups job website and open source the Django based backend for developers to contribute features; - Finish at least 2 other ideas from my 'ideas list'; - Learn iphone & android app design; - Learn a language (French or Spanish); - Find a new dev laptop to replace my MacBook Pro (Lenovo X1?); - Earn enough money from my own projects to afford to leave my full time job; - Improve my overall fitness and skills in rock climbing and mountain biking. I think they're all fairly realistic.
- RyanBrantley 14y ago
  Good list there! We are working on some similar goals going into the new year; ios, spanish and mtb. Best of luck to you in '13 and beyond!
paul9290 14y ago
- Add javascript to my front-end (html/css & design are my current strong points) skills - Launch our (sleep.fm) mobile web app, will be 1st online alarm clock that works in mobile browsers. Long time coming for us... - Connect with more local entrepreneurs & tinkers - Buy a 3D printer and possibly pursue a new start-up idea in the field
yawgmoth 14y ago
Do some Project Euler problems in a few different languages that I don't use on a regular basis (Java, C++, Scala, perhaps). Brush up on my Spanish speaking skills (which are limited compared to my reading/writing skills) I've been doing calisthenics for a year. I would like to do Pilates and yoga as well. I would like to improve overall flexibility, balance, and strength. I've had, perhaps, too diverse of a fitness plan (in 2012 I did 30 weeks of Hockey, 16 weeks of Soccer, a whole spring/summer/fall of running, forty sessions of physical therapy for upper and lower back, in addition to bridges/pullups/pushups/planks).
ajhai 14y ago
- Read less and write more (code, blog etc) - Reduce development time and learn a bit or two about marketing - Build a personal brand
alexatkeplar 14y ago
- Improve my Greek vocabulary - Rewrite the Hive parts of SnowPlow (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow) in Scalding - Try out Go, Rust and F# - Add Android and iOS trackers to SnowPlow
notactuallyme 14y ago
Never really been a fan of new year resolutions, but a few that really are down to accidental timing... - Stay off cigarettes (quit a month ago and going fine) - Stop using cocaine (this happens to be the week I've realised that I'm close to being addicted - hell, I'm high right now) - Start writing some sort of novel, something I've wanted to do for a few years (edit: Sorry for the throwaway account, don't really want my name showing up in Google talking about a coke habit..)
- ddorian43 14y ago
  any longterm effects that you see?
  - notactuallyme 14y ago
    Sorry can you elaborate on what you're asking?
    - ddorian43 14y ago
      on your cocaine addiction, if you have used it for a long time(i don't know how much is long), do you see any longterm effects? (example: some people who smoke weed say they are more chill(when not high) then before they used to smoke)
      - notactuallyme 14y ago
        Until fairly recently I didn't use it often, and no, I haven't noticed any real changes in myself (other than when on it). I've smoked weed for a much longer time - though not much lately, and never a full-time stoner, just relaxing with friends now and then - and while I don't think that's really changed me either, it does feel like it has a greater ability to, because getting stoned is about relaxing and thinking, it's a state of mind you can go to when sober, and certainly I know a couple of people who are always smoking it and their normal personality certainly seems to have merged with their stoned personality. Long-term changes aren't what's making me stop, it's the worry that if I keep going much longer I'll spiral out of control, which definitely isn't good for my bank balance and has a decent chance of not being good from a safety point of view, either.
vasuadiga 14y ago
Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
dmmalam 14y ago
focus
extramoose 14y ago
Last week I put most of my belongings in storage. I drove my cat & car down to the parents house for the holidays. Jan 1st 2013, I have 0 obligations. My "big plan" for 2013 is to have absolutely no plans. Pretty psyched :)
Yoni1 14y ago
Mechanism: I wrote myself a Google doc with my new year's resolutions and I'm going to set Astrid reminders to review them quarterly (let's say at the end of March, June, September, and in time for 2014's resolutions). I agree with @kator's comment that it's totally arbitrary. Maybe, but it's convenient! Also I'm sharing it here to make myself feel like I'm obligated to someone. :) The full doc would be boring to put here, so here is the tl;dr version: 1. Productivity 2. School 3. Fitness Slightly longer version: 1. Productivity - primary goal: "I will be productive and inspired all the time." Practically, this means wasting less time, doing more personal coding projects, learning new skills, and other things. My first task in this goal is to finish reading and start implementing GTD. A couple of inspiring discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4979938 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4979938 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4982649 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4982649 2. School (I am a master's degree student) - primary goal: "I will finish all my course requirements and at least 70% of my thesis research and writing". (The definition of 70% is "feels like 70%".) Secondary goal: "My school time will be much more relaxed and awesome than it is currently, and I'll leave more time for side projects, side work, and personal stuff." 3. Fitness - primary goal: "By the end of 2013 I will be stunningly sexy." Inspiring discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4971196 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4971196
emixam 14y ago
Travel around the world! I'm leaving the 4th of January for India before going to South East Asia, Oceania and South America. I'm blogging about it: http://travelingcoder.com http://travelingcoder.com. I also plan to work on personal projects on the way.
clockwork_189 14y ago
I want to create an arsenal of cool html5 games and hardware hacks. By the end of the year, I expect myself to become close to an expert in both those fields :P
lazyjones 14y ago
Work: decide on a new main programming language to switch to (from Perl) so we can actually hire more developers ... Personal: move to a new flat (8 years were enough for the current one, I need new surroundings), stop eating sugar, grains and legumes (paleo-inspired diet), perhaps move to a country that isn't passive-smoking hell like Austria.
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mgarfias 14y ago
Have a little girl.

50 points by pavs 14y ago

I was just doing my 2013 and wanted to know how others manage (what software/notebook/) and what they put in their Yearly Plan or todo list.

mailshanx 14y ago

-Submit my thesis and get my Masters -Publish my masters work in the leading IEEE conference in my area. -Move to Europe to live and work there -Learn more CS, particularly in the areas of natural language processing and distributed computing. (My academic background is in EE). -Get fitter. Hit my strength goal of 1xBW bench, 1.5x squat and 2x deadlifts

latch 14y ago

I plan on writing another free ebook.

okal 14y ago
OT, but I love your work. I've learnt a lot of what I know from free resources, which inspired me to start http://hackershelf.com http://hackershelf.com. Just out of curiosity, why do you do it?
- latch 14y ago
  I like to write, I find it rather therapeutic.
onlyup 14y ago
What was the first one?
- latch 14y ago
  I wrote the Little RedisDB Book and the Little MongoDB Book, and Foundations of Programming long before them
sycren 14y ago
another? what other books have you written?

richo 14y ago

Build more cool shit on the internet.

onlyup 14y ago
Cool, what are you going to make? And what did you make before?
- richo 14y ago
  Short answer to both questions is https://github.com/richo https://github.com/richo More specifically, I have an HTTP kernel in scheme that I want to get compliant to the spec and release, and a gossip driven task/issue tracker that I'd like to get out.

platzhirsch 14y ago

Write my master's thesis, graduate and get a job in the Bay Area or NYC as a software engineer.

mflindell 14y ago

Finally launch my hobby web app into the world. Usually when you think of a new year you think in big projects and not the small things that make up the big ones. So I guess ill be fixing lots of little bugs ;)

j2labs 14y ago

Here's answer: http://j2labs.tumblr.com/post/38951909060/a-few-days-before-2013 http://j2labs.tumblr.com/post/38951909060/a-few-days-before-...

j2labs 14y ago
Does anyone else have the typo issue where you forget an entire?

edanm 14y ago

Grow my software consultancy (PurpleBit) in several ways: – Build and launch at least 3 major products for our customers (in addition to the projects currently in the pipeline). In addition, take on some smaller fun projects, perhaps charging value based instead of time+materials based. - Hire additional employees. Goal: be a 7-10 person consultancy by year's end. - Start taking projects in a specific niche and build a reputation as the premiere consultancy in that niche. - Start additional promotional projects, for example teaching software courses in Web/iOS for local developers to solidify the consultancy's brand.

gghootch 14y ago

- Continue on the path of graduating cum laude. - Publish three academic papers. - Get a job. - Start a side project which actually has a chance of making some money. - Find the woman of my dreams.

xradionut 14y ago

Currently I use OneNote to manage projects and such. I've yet to find a really good cross-platform tool that works as well. Plans for 2013, more OSS, less MS. More coding, less managing.

RossM 14y ago
You might like Evernote, I didn't but it is cross-platform (+web). I've taken to just using a wiki now.
- onlyup 14y ago
  I didn't either. It's definitely good for recording things but I think OneNote has other strengths that make it way better.

minhajuddin 14y ago

- Build a useful open source project using go - Get a few paid customers for two of my products so that I don't have to work on other's projects. (http://substancehq.com http://substancehq.com, http://schoolone.in http://schoolone.in)

michaelmartin 14y ago

I always start a new pocket moleskine in each new year, and the first page always has my goals for that year. I generally split it up into 3 or 4 business goals, and 3 or 4 personal ones. I like having them written down somewhere physical because you end up seeing them quite a lot (The moleskine lies on my desk for most of the year), and I tend to keep the notebooks when I'm done (They're small, so it's no big space consumer). That means that after a few years, you still have the lists and can start to see what sort of things have come up a few times and still not been done (Get fitter...), and how your goals have changed. It's not a big fancy review exercise, more of a nice thing to flick over from time to time.

dotborg 14y ago

find a girlfriend

damniatx 14y ago

- Create more application for iphone and android. - finishing my intern. - Graduating. - Take a photo with my parents infront of my university.

kator 14y ago

I'm not a fan of "New Years Resolutions". IMHO it's a false point in time to force a process you won't follow through on anyway because the driving factor is the random reality that day on the calendar happened to pass by that we've assigned importance to (i.e. New Year). That said I believe in constant, on-going goals analysis and review. On a daily basis I review my goals for the day. On a semi-random basis I review my goals for other random-lengths of time. Usually triggered by passing through or letting go of another goal on my roadmap. Meanwhile on a fairly regular basis I review my personal "core goals" and see if my current progress and goals are in alignment. If they're not I either rework my core goals or rework my "working" goals to align. Sometimes I do this on the subway to work and other times on a beach while on vacation. I think setting goals at the beginning of the year really has no impact on the reality of your life. That said it's not a bad idea to look at your "core" goals. Rather then say "I'll loose 25 lbs this year" say "I want to be healthy for the rest of my life". And then identify some short, mid and long term goals to obtain that overall "core goal". Often if I find myself overwhelmed by life I will stop and review my "core goals" and make sure everything is in alignment with those. Or I change them to meet what I really want in my life "now". When I was younger I had very different "core goals" then I do now and I'm comfortable that sometime in the next 0 to 24 months those might change as I review what is meaningful and rewarding to me in my life. As an example my primary goal is to "Live my life in my passion". This has actually been true for most of my life starting sometime while I was in high school. Clearly my "passion" has changed over time but the "core goal" remains the same and drives many of my decisions in my life. That said some other "core goals" of mine have changed though my life as I've progressed through various phases and transitions in my life. Your "core goals" when you have young children are most likely very different then when they've all moved out and are living their own lives. :-) Be flexible, be alert and true to yourself, find your "core goals" and then develop your short, mid and long-term goals driven from those. And as always, be willing to change them as you and your life changes.

kolinko 14y ago
How do you know the problem is with resolutions/goals and not with your process of setting them? The way I see it, most people have a bad process of setting their goals. It causes them to always pick the same ones (e.g. lose weight, stop smoking, change a job), and never follow through (e.g. because they always approach the goals using the same methods, like "I will eat less", or "I will have a strong will this time"). I've been setting my goals according to one of Tony Robbins' workshops for the past 9 years now, and it's amazing what it helped me to accomplish. In short, my process is: - split it to material goals, self-devel goals & career goals - for each section, brainstorm by writing down dosens of goals I want to accomplish in my life - then for each brainstormed goal I write down whether I want to achieve it by 1 year, 2, 5 or 20. - out of 1 year goals I choose three of each kind (9 total). The above causes me to choose things that are really important, not just "top of the mind" - I surprised myself quite often by discovering that some things I considered could wait. Then, for each of the 9 goals I write down: - why do I want to accomplish it - the first step, something I can do instantly. The first step quite often propels me towards achieving the goal, and the reason is a nice reminder of why I wanted to achieve it. So far, the track record was quite nice. Out of 9 goals I accomplish 3-4 in any given year, but it's still a lot. The rest are quite often accomplished a year-two later, thanks to the path I initiated on the first year. Or abandoned when I discover that the reason is no longer relevant. Finally, I don't think it's about New Year's. It's about doing an occasional, annual, overview of where you're going and what you accomplished. As much as it's important to constantly track your progress, you cannot ask yourself "where am I going", "what do I want from life" every day or every week. Those are the things one should ask & modify only once in a while. (edit: I built an iOS app for this process. I hope nobody minds the plug: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/goal-setting-workshop-+-simple/id408425741?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/goal-setting-workshop-+-simpl... . I'd give away free codes here, but don't have any left of this version. )

rdl 14y ago

Finally launching my startup.

wamatt 14y ago

To think small

sainib 14y ago

My goal is to get at least 100 paying customers by the end of the year for my product - http://www.tourzilla.com http://www.tourzilla.com

onlyup 14y ago
Would this scale if you're editing the videos manually?

endlessvoid94 14y ago

Focus on my health.

edw519 14y ago

To accomplish something every day, no matter how small. (365 little things * the probability they'll get done) > (a few big things * the probability they'll get done) I did this in 2012 and am still shocked at how much more I accomplished than in any other year. All those little things + their compound interest turned out to be a bigger result than anything I could have planned. Who knew?

andyakb 14y ago
could you give a few examples of what you would define as little things? do they all work towards a bigger thing, or are they typically unrelated?
fbr 14y ago
Interesting, do you have any example of what you've done in 2012?

kisamoto 14y ago

Not exactly a resolution but here's mine: - Launch a new start-ups job website and open source the Django based backend for developers to contribute features; - Finish at least 2 other ideas from my 'ideas list'; - Learn iphone & android app design; - Learn a language (French or Spanish); - Find a new dev laptop to replace my MacBook Pro (Lenovo X1?); - Earn enough money from my own projects to afford to leave my full time job; - Improve my overall fitness and skills in rock climbing and mountain biking. I think they're all fairly realistic.

RyanBrantley 14y ago
Good list there! We are working on some similar goals going into the new year; ios, spanish and mtb. Best of luck to you in '13 and beyond!

paul9290 14y ago

- Add javascript to my front-end (html/css & design are my current strong points) skills - Launch our (sleep.fm) mobile web app, will be 1st online alarm clock that works in mobile browsers. Long time coming for us... - Connect with more local entrepreneurs & tinkers - Buy a 3D printer and possibly pursue a new start-up idea in the field

yawgmoth 14y ago

Do some Project Euler problems in a few different languages that I don't use on a regular basis (Java, C++, Scala, perhaps). Brush up on my Spanish speaking skills (which are limited compared to my reading/writing skills) I've been doing calisthenics for a year. I would like to do Pilates and yoga as well. I would like to improve overall flexibility, balance, and strength. I've had, perhaps, too diverse of a fitness plan (in 2012 I did 30 weeks of Hockey, 16 weeks of Soccer, a whole spring/summer/fall of running, forty sessions of physical therapy for upper and lower back, in addition to bridges/pullups/pushups/planks).

ajhai 14y ago

- Read less and write more (code, blog etc) - Reduce development time and learn a bit or two about marketing - Build a personal brand

alexatkeplar 14y ago

- Improve my Greek vocabulary - Rewrite the Hive parts of SnowPlow (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow) in Scalding - Try out Go, Rust and F# - Add Android and iOS trackers to SnowPlow

notactuallyme 14y ago

Never really been a fan of new year resolutions, but a few that really are down to accidental timing... - Stay off cigarettes (quit a month ago and going fine) - Stop using cocaine (this happens to be the week I've realised that I'm close to being addicted - hell, I'm high right now) - Start writing some sort of novel, something I've wanted to do for a few years (edit: Sorry for the throwaway account, don't really want my name showing up in Google talking about a coke habit..)

ddorian43 14y ago
any longterm effects that you see?
- notactuallyme 14y ago
  Sorry can you elaborate on what you're asking?
  - ddorian43 14y ago
    on your cocaine addiction, if you have used it for a long time(i don't know how much is long), do you see any longterm effects? (example: some people who smoke weed say they are more chill(when not high) then before they used to smoke)
    - notactuallyme 14y ago
      Until fairly recently I didn't use it often, and no, I haven't noticed any real changes in myself (other than when on it). I've smoked weed for a much longer time - though not much lately, and never a full-time stoner, just relaxing with friends now and then - and while I don't think that's really changed me either, it does feel like it has a greater ability to, because getting stoned is about relaxing and thinking, it's a state of mind you can go to when sober, and certainly I know a couple of people who are always smoking it and their normal personality certainly seems to have merged with their stoned personality. Long-term changes aren't what's making me stop, it's the worry that if I keep going much longer I'll spiral out of control, which definitely isn't good for my bank balance and has a decent chance of not being good from a safety point of view, either.

vasuadiga 14y ago

Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

dmmalam 14y ago

focus

extramoose 14y ago

Last week I put most of my belongings in storage. I drove my cat & car down to the parents house for the holidays. Jan 1st 2013, I have 0 obligations. My "big plan" for 2013 is to have absolutely no plans. Pretty psyched :)

Yoni1 14y ago

Mechanism: I wrote myself a Google doc with my new year's resolutions and I'm going to set Astrid reminders to review them quarterly (let's say at the end of March, June, September, and in time for 2014's resolutions). I agree with @kator's comment that it's totally arbitrary. Maybe, but it's convenient! Also I'm sharing it here to make myself feel like I'm obligated to someone. :) The full doc would be boring to put here, so here is the tl;dr version: 1. Productivity 2. School 3. Fitness Slightly longer version: 1. Productivity - primary goal: "I will be productive and inspired all the time." Practically, this means wasting less time, doing more personal coding projects, learning new skills, and other things. My first task in this goal is to finish reading and start implementing GTD. A couple of inspiring discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4979938 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4979938 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4982649 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4982649 2. School (I am a master's degree student) - primary goal: "I will finish all my course requirements and at least 70% of my thesis research and writing". (The definition of 70% is "feels like 70%".) Secondary goal: "My school time will be much more relaxed and awesome than it is currently, and I'll leave more time for side projects, side work, and personal stuff." 3. Fitness - primary goal: "By the end of 2013 I will be stunningly sexy." Inspiring discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4971196 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4971196

emixam 14y ago

Travel around the world! I'm leaving the 4th of January for India before going to South East Asia, Oceania and South America. I'm blogging about it: http://travelingcoder.com http://travelingcoder.com. I also plan to work on personal projects on the way.

clockwork_189 14y ago

I want to create an arsenal of cool html5 games and hardware hacks. By the end of the year, I expect myself to become close to an expert in both those fields :P

lazyjones 14y ago

Work: decide on a new main programming language to switch to (from Perl) so we can actually hire more developers ... Personal: move to a new flat (8 years were enough for the current one, I need new surroundings), stop eating sugar, grains and legumes (paleo-inspired diet), perhaps move to a country that isn't passive-smoking hell like Austria.

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mgarfias 14y ago

Have a little girl.