2017-01-27

This/Each Week

  • Stay up on Medium and contribute regularly
    • I feel like the quality of medium has gone down. I find myself less interested and finding less content I enjoy. I will remove this goal.
  • Advance on HackerRank
    • I have not made time for this. I will create an event this week to try to do so.
  • Read Hacker News
    • I read this every day
  • Read Indie Hackers
    • I have stayed up on this and even gone to a live event of his since the last time I wrote about this.
  • Earn a quarter of my money with Ridesharing
    • I am deprecating this goal as I no longer believe in this.
  • Earn a quarter of my money freelancing
    • I still need to get this going. I will create an event this week to make some progress.
  • Eat Less, Eat Better, Drink More Water
    • I would say I have accomplished this.
  • Yoga
    • It has been several weeks since i have done this.  I will try to make it happen this week.
  • Watch a documentary
    • I have this in for later this week. It has been a few weeks. I need to do better here.
  • Journal about goals each week
    • I have put it off because of being in limbo at work. I am still in limbo, but enough other things have happened for this to seem worth doing.
  • Blog post about each major area of focus
    • Investment
      • My stock portfolio currently constitutes the entirety of my investments. It is at +27% for the last month, having recovered all of the losses I suffered during the election.
    • Book Reviews
      • I have not made time for reading, and I intend to do so this week, now that I am settling into my new schedule and the anxiety of the school semester starting has passed.
    • Machine Learning
      • I have made some interesting contacts and expanded my thoughts on how I will go about getting into this.
    • Development
      • I have posted about several projects, and have plans to post several more.

This/Each Month

  • Read a book each month
    • I am still on track for this. I have three books officially in-progress and just need to buckle down and finish one.
  • Volunteer
    • Stand Up Placer
  • Play Chess
  • Learn a new skill
  • Try a new hobby
  • Kayaking

This Year

  • Complete Undergrad
    • I have made progress and been given special permission to advance faster than usual.
  • Become profitable with the platform
    • This is still months away.
  • Learn More Programming Languages/Frameworks
    • C++
      • I am going to be starting a class for this hopefully in the fall.
    • C#
    • Angular
    • Node
    • Python
  • Start a profitable new business
    • Mobile food sales
    • Throw fundraiser events for worthy causes
  • More Amateur Radio
  • More Sailing
  • Build a tiny home
  • Maintain a buffer of six months of resources
  • Use machine learning to solve a problem
  • Use machine learning to make money
  • Land Sailing
  • Learn Achery
  • Learn to shoot
  • Learn to Fly
  • Learn The Constellations

Business Goals

  • Sell Food Again
  • Grow Food
  • Maximize independence
  • Start DJing again
    • Podcast
    • Weekly gigs
  • Start a monthly podcast about doing good
  • Set up ancestry websites for people
  • Expand my aggregation tool to enable users to sign up and save their preferences, etc
  • Build out Todo tool with features like past-due and editing existing entries
  • Throw fundraiser events for worthy causes
  • Customer service chat ops(?)