- Save 20% of our income
- Take a family vacation
- Get a nice (professional) family photo taken
- Get passports for the kids
- Cook three new things from Marcella Hazan's cookbook, from different chapters (so only one pasta, etc), or from Food Matters, of NYT Cooking
- Catalog all my email subscriptions and unsubscribe from 75 percent of them
- Compete in jiujitsu at least once
- Play at least one game of chess a week
Projects:
- Launch at least one project from my brainstorm list
- Rewrite the CSS on my personal site with no third-party frameworks (to get better at CSS)
- Get my personal site on HTTPS
- Automate link updates on my personal site
Exercise:
- 50 pushups a day (or 350 a week)
- 60 minutes of cardio per week
- 60 minutes of stretching per week
- Find an indoor workout I can stick with
Books to read:
- Moby Dick
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- The Information
- Black Powder War
- Empire of Ivory
- Hands of Stone
- Victory of Eagles
- Karate-do My Way of Life
- Practical SQL
- Tongues of Serpents
- Crucible of Gold
- Blood of Tyrants
- League of Dragons
- The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel
Books in consideration:
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- Iraq + 100
- 1984
- Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- The Fifth Season
- Battle Cry of Freedom
- Grant
- Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
- The Kid Stays in the Picture
- A Plague of Doves
- Artificial Unintelligence
Partial credit on chess. I had two goals in mind here: First, get back into playing chess generally, because I like how my brain works when I'm playing regularly. And second, get in the habit of finishing games, even if I'm losing. I'm trying to build a stronger mental habit of seeing things through and working out of bad situations.
I ended up doing a lot of chess puzzles, which are fun, but I played very few actual full games. Might try this again next year.