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📣 zerotosixty

What are your new years resolutions?


Im hoping to teach 50 people to learn to code this year and help them get a job in the tech industry.


  👤 elviejo Accepted Answer ✓
Save enough to cover all expenses of my family for 5 years.

Once 1) is complete enroll in PhD in mathematics (category theory and informatics).

Beat my internet addiction


👤 mf_tomb
475lbs Deadlift and 185lbs Press

Convert what I'm learning into content so that others may benefit.


👤 frankie_t
Approach all my planning from resource (time and energy) allocation perspective. Previously I would just make a dump of all things that I want to achieve, which made any kind of planning unrealistic.

Stay afloat but do not try to actively climb anywhere, save energy for inner work and contemplation. Stay at my current job (ok pay, just got hired), do not actively learn anything technical unless required for work (not interested, tired from technology). Do no work more than is necessary to feel I'm not gonna be fired.

Approach very critically all learning endeavors that are related to programming, and only do things that I absolutely enjoy. Drop at first sign of dissatisfaction.

Spend time on high RoI things (critical thinking, stress management and overall well being techniques). Drop low RoI things (movies, TV series, guitar).

Try to fight news and politics addiction.

Contemplate on how and where I want to spend the rest of my life.


👤 vne
I've been seriously distracted and lack the inner energy to focus on things that truly matter. For a decade now, I've been trying to learn coding without success; always running around in circle, motion without progress. So, my new year resolution is to break this jinx and kickstart a career in tech.

👤 zhichu
1,Learn maching learning and deep learning to do something such as AI chess.

2, read English easily like a native speaker.

3, complete a paper to get master degree.

4,learn anything new and interesting, like painting and music.


👤 strikelaserclaw
lose weight, been 40-50 pounds over weight for almost a decade, i keep dropping 20-25 pounds and regaining it again. I enjoy eating and drinking a little too much.

👤 creakingstairs
1. Run at least 35k every week

2. Make a polished game with a very small scope and publish it. Emphasis on “polished”. I keep making pocs and never finish them because the scope and the polishing (ui, fx) gets daunting.

Also I’ve already started these two goals because I try to start my “new year” goals on a random day in December rather than starting on actual new year. I find I have better success rate that way.


👤 jobsort
Turn a profit out of my side project.

👤 SSShupe
Write at least two hours per day.

👤 gompertz
To learn less new things and just get better at the stuff I already (somewhat) know through application. Too much time in recent years has been spent doing any Udemy or Coursera course that looked moderately appealing. The breadth of knowledge has become too much; with far too little depth.

👤 movedx
Build my DevOps training platform and on-site training centre.

Develop a portfolio of mentees.

Replace contracting with income from the above :-)


👤 ciconia
- Work in my garden regularly (as in, put it in my weekly schedule). - Advance from producing food in the summer to doing it all year round. - Start an offline publication dealing with spiritual and philosophical matters, distribute it locally.

👤 gwbrooks
Grow funding of the nonprofit I lead by at least $400k.

Delegate or die trying.

Dial back the reflexive urge to self-host or home-grow every aspect of my personal and professional tech stacks.


👤 moooo99
1) Write a blog regularly. My primary objective is to improve my english writing, a nice side effect would be to build an audience

2) Read a book a month

3) Finally finish a sideproject and publish it

4) Regularly workout


👤 reactor
1) Learn inline skating.

2) Learn Piano.

3) Stick to regular practice of meditation.


👤 Winterflow3r
Try and increase side project revenue so its ramen-profitable or at least hosting profitable

👤 GoldenMonkey
Have residual and passive income that pays all the bills.

👤 dominotw
get skiing with grace and balance.

👤 knoebber
Sub 3:30 marathon