Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2015?
Similar to last years' threads, what is your yearly plan?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6989585
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- Expand my recruitment business to average x placements per y (http://perl.careers/)
- Exercise 70% of all days
- Eat 90% of my meals mindfully
- Meditate on 90% of all days
- Finish my dissertation and graduate my part-time MSc by July
- After July, release an eBook OR complete the iOS developer and Data Scientist Nano degrees from Udacity
2. Visit Shanghai
3. Start my work for ESA (European Space Agency)
4. Launch a couple of projects I've been working on recently
5. Participate in at least 3 Kaggle challenges
6. Finish recording my album
7. Gain some weight, do more sports
8. Try and finish my startup project, if it turns out to be a dead-end financially, open-source it
1. Write and self-publish 2 novels to launch a series. I've self-published a few things, ready to move into it more seriously.
2. Become competent with lisp. Fooled around with it in the past, but I'd like to know what I'm doing.
3. Become competent with deep learning / neural networks. Another place where I know the basics, but would like some proficiency.
4. Gain enough fitness to get back into backpacking. Something I used to do a lot, but over the last several years I've been very, very lazy. Long way to go on this one. I'm wasting living in California.
5. Work on a few different micro-documentary projects using things like Vine. I've had some ideas about this, need to put them into practice.
- Have a good social life. Go out on dates etc.
- Learn a new language and stick with it. Contribute to open source if possible.
- Earn more money. Maybe ask for another raise or ugh, I dunno.
- Visit another country.
2. Work on one thing at a time (no more multi-tasking). This includes not doing something else while talking to somebody.
3. Plan out when to do work the day it's assigned, and don't leave it to the last minute.
4. Meditate daily.
5. Minimize distractions. That is, no reddit, less Facebook, Twitter, and HN.
I guess those are more goals than plans, but same idea.
Edit to add: get into shape to run a marathon in late 2015 or early 2016. I ran one last year, but I've lost most of my progress this year.
I should try your list as they are all things I feel I ought to do more of (or less of in the case of 2 and 5).
And shipping my bike across the country would probably be more expensive than a good pair of running shoes.
2. find the courage to actually launch a silly viral website I've done in my spare time. It's been sitting on my disk for a couple of months now, ready to go, but I fear the maintenance burden I'll get once launched.
3. if the two above items flounder, retool -- in 2016 my current job will likely be obsolete, so I have to prepare for that.
I'm pretty positive about my chances, though this will be my first attempt at `doing business`
- contribute at one open source project. I use OSS so much that I feel I should give back even a little.
- manage successfully to reach day 14 of my fasting experiment that started December 26th then continue to fast one day a week
- finally start the side project that is bugging me since 2007 !
- find an alternative source of income (this is sorely needed and might be provided by the side project)
- get better at my hobby
- Learn the Ada programming language (just because)
My other big project this year is to find new home for my tiny winery: I am looking for new land to build proper facilities and acquire more vineyards as well.
Otherwise - get better at systems programming. Learn an ML language maybe. Study algorithms. Go to college.
I guess that would depend on the degree of preparation. Perhaps I've prepared for ever to become Master of the World at 23:59:59? That would be a big plan for 2014 :-)
2. Start experimenting with quantum algorithms.
3. Expand my social circle.
4. Be more positive.
2.Travel more
3.Work on a OSS and on Quantum Algos (picked this up from other comments to ths thread)
4.increase my breadth while maintaing depth in the work that i do
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posting it here as a permanent reminder to myself
Finish some side project and try and get some freelance work once when I can show people the sort of things I do.
2 ) Build my house.
3 ) Develop the next SAS with a friend as opentable for my country.
4 ) Travel to Africa !
Run a marathon (new to running, so a BIG task)
Quit my job (been three months in a job and already want to quit) and do something that throws some money at me
- Read a book at least one every month
- Exercise daily
- Launch my Startup and get Funding.
- Quite every trace of freelance and focus on the Startup.
- Date more
- Work more at Nights
- Get a hobby outside programming
Get married.
Take TBI Commons to the next level.
Move in to my new place and turn into a comfortable place to stay for the next 5 years.
Start something that can generate $1K passive income every month.
- Start my own consultancy (and resign from my comfortable, well-paid job at a big consultancy)
- Monetize my reasonably popular yet underpromoted open source project
- Say "No" more often to working on other peoples babies
- Buy a house
- Actually release my (deployed) side projects to the world
- Somehow be a good brother, son and boyfriend while I work excessive hours
- Develop an exceptional enterprise app
1. Graduate before september so I can start my PhD position. √
2. Date more. √
3. Move to a better place. √
Great success!
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============This Year=============
1. Publish, publish, publish
2. Start side-business
3. Stop gaining weight
- Learn a couple of songs on guitar (2014 failure).
- Move flat.
As well as describing how to use Docker, it will try to explain how to use containers in the full software development workflow.
- Make my first surf trip.
- Learn how to dance.
- Study German.
- Spend more time building relationships.