First attempt at new year resolutions
Hey everyone, welcome to my site which will serve to document my goals, projects, thoughts and whatever else might happen to need to get documented.
I’ve never really done new years resolutions before and decided on a whim (after watching some cool Youtube video about how people automate their daily routines) that I should start making some changes… by which I mean track what I do and figure out my stats (and eventually set goals for myself).
This first post is to document what I plan to work on and what the goals for 2018Q1 are.
I’ll be cleaning this up (in the code as I learn Jekyll, markdown, liquid, yaml, HTML, and whatever else) and updating this page as I make progress.
| Goal | Description |
|---|---|
| Get Healthy | Diet, sleep hygiene, supplements, nootropics, doctor visits |
| Get Scheduled | Strict scheduling of time, regular sleep and work hours |
| Get Rich | Machine learning augmented crypto, track expenses, stock market triggers |
| Get Fit | Strength, BMI, Endurance |
| Get Focused | Improve focus by meditation |
| Get Deeper | Practice more deep/machine learning |
| Get Organized | Goals, planning, realistic constraints, completion, time management |
| Get Handsome | Hair, Hygiene, Style |
| Get Responsive | How quickly I respond to phone calls, texts, and PMs |
| Get Internet Famous | Get internet clout via twitter and blogging |
| Get Creative | Perform classical artistic creation |
| Get Politically Active | Create tools or analysis to aid in activism I’m interested in |
Get Healthy
Description: Diet, sleep hygiene, supplements, nootropics, doctor visits
Trackable metrics: TBD
Approaches: Diet, Nootropics
Q1 explicit goals: Research metrics and methods. Have at least one metric, one manipulation, an estimate of the time course of effect. Determine 2018 goals.
2018 goals: TBD
Get Scheduled
Description: Strict scheduling of time, regular sleep and work hours
Trackable metrics: total unscheduled time for last day, week, month, time allocation to each calendar for last day week month
Approaches: Schedule all time on google calendar.
Q1 explicit goals: reach 0 untracked minutes for a month
2018 goals: reach 0 untracked minutes for 6 months
How my time gets spent!
Get Rich
Description: Machine learning augmented crypto, track expenses, stock market triggers
Trackable metrics: Net worth, expenses
Approaches: gather features, data, build model, predict future price and certainty variance of crypto
Q1 explicit goals: Identify features, and start gathering data, track metrics
2018 goals: increase net worth by some explicit amount
Get Fit
Description: Strength, BMI, Endurance
Trackable metrics: Body Composition, HRV, machine resistances
Approaches: regular gym time, bike to work, more BJJ, go to gym
Q1 explicit goals: Get bike fixed. Track metrics. Determine 2018 goals
2018 goals: TBD
Get Focused
Description: Improve focus by meditation
Trackable metrics: Total time meditated in past day, week, month. Meditation streak.
Approaches: Meditate every day before bed
Q1 explicit goals: meditate on 75 days
2018 goals: meditate on 340 days
Mindfulness Meditation Log
Get Deeper
Description: Practice more deep/machine learning
Trackable metrics: Hours spent programming deep learning.
Approaches: Do more deep learning
Q1 explicit goals: Learn Deeply for 50 hours
2018 goals: Learn Deeply for (TBD) 200 hours
Get Organized
Description: Goals, planning, realistic constraints, completion, time management
Trackable metrics: Time spent organizing, inbox zero
Approaches: Spend time getting organized
Q1 explicit goals: reach inbox zero (important messages)
2018 goals: TBD
Get Handsome
Description: Hair, Hygiene, Style
Trackable metrics: /r/malefashionadvice wayw ratings?, Alex rating?
Approaches: More regular haircuts, more regular shaving, research and improve fashion/wardrobe
Q1 explicit goals: Shave once a week, spend 4 hours researching /r/malefashionadvice
2018 goals: TBD
Get Responsive
Description: How quickly I respond to phone calls, texts, and PMs
Trackable metrics: Mean response time, mean log response time
Approaches: Respond more quickly
Q1 explicit goals: statistically significant reduction in mean log response time over TBD window
2018 goals: continuous reduction in mean log response time over TBD window
Get Internet Famous
Description: Get internet clout via twitter and blogging
Trackable metrics: Twitter Followers, number of tweets, website views
Approaches: get website (this website), acquire twitter handle (hey Twitter, are you reading this), start engaging
Q1 explicit goals: get website, acquire twitter handle
2018 goals: Reach Brad’s following?
Get Creative
Description: Perform classical artistic creation
Trackable metrics: hours spent arting
Approaches: art more
Q1 explicit goals: 8 hours arting
2018 goals: 40 hours arting
Get Politically Active
Description: Create tools or analysis to aid in activism I’m interested in
Trackable metrics: Tool uses
Approaches: Identify area for analysis, do analysis, make it available
Q1 explicit goals: Identify project
2018 goals: have project available