I think it helps to share your aspirations with fellow HN patrons. It'll hopefully inculcate some reinforcement towards the will to achieve those.
Mine are:
1. Read one book every week.
2. Proper diet and exercise and aim for gaining at least 20 lb muscle mass.
3. Reach substantial milestones for the personal projects that I started last year.
I want to read excellent books. Not articles online, but BOOKS. I read enough computer science in the day job, so I want to read anything BUT CS. Biography, novels, art, math, etc.I want to get lost in good reading.
Great choice! Over the last few years I have realized that even while reading articles online, my brain has resorted to skimming through them to grasp only the useful bits. This does not usually help while reading a technical paper or a book per se.
Not yet. Every time I see someone at my local coffee shop with a real dead tree book I ask them about it. I just found a book today at the thrift store called "Women of the West" which is full of photographs and diary entries from women pioneers. I think I will start with that.
