What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

In the beginning of the day, don’t look at phone or computer. Avoid news especially, and instead write thoughts, draw something, work on a song, make something, anything. Don’t let day get sucked away with things that can’t be controlled.

Excercise every day with “scientific 7 minute workout”. Also 20–40 minute walks or 100 basketball jump-shots.

Draw daily, even a 5 minute drawing.

Write daily, even for 5 minutes.

Publish first original song, publish first EP. Learn a new song or practice one or two from existing set. Keep learning piano by learning songs you like: https://hypertexthero.com/piano/

Write postcards to people.

Set up a weekly “office hours” livestream to help people with design or technical computer issues.

I spend so much time rushing past moments, trying almost frantically to get through them by applying rules of thumb and not wasting attention. Of course if you do that too little you get stuck in the mud. But too much of it is a form of self-defeating panic. In survival mode you have to rush, eat things you normally wouldn't, put aside any non critical detail. But those details pile up when you stay in that mode for year after year. So my goal is to learn to apply my full attention to the details, and to work hard on picking the right ones.

Factorio teaches this. You work on some tiny little thing, like getting a belt to balance properly, and move on to the next. By iterating that you can raise up this great machine, like pointillist art. Mark Andreessen claims that is Elon's secret sauce. I'm not so much hoping to accelerate inter planetary diaspora as I am to figure out how to keep my shoes from coming untied. I'm considering making one small step for man and ordering those elastic shoe laces, and solve a problem that I've been faffing around on since about age four. And then repeating that.

I'm going to be working on poetry this next year (something I've already started), and I will be taking a life drawing class starting in January.

Honestly, I'm just tired of taking on technical skills. It might be better for my career, but I'm sick of hobbies and interest that encourage me to be solitary.

Oh, but most importantly, I want to develop my relationship skills. My romantic life has had its ups and downs, but it's mostly been in the pits for the last decade, and I've realized that I have both relationship skills to develop as well as emotional repression I need to work on. I want to have a family someday and am afraid I may never will at this point, so it's important to me that I can be a good husband and father someday. In other words, I've been more of a scared boy than I thought I was, and I need to fix that.

I want to learn how to properly build a habit/routine that isn't dopamine driven. I have ADHD and I recently realized, even as I'm pushing 50 years old, that all of my hobbies, habits, and "likes" have been dopamine driven. I need to learn how to exclude the reward of a dopamine hit as the reason for doing something. Resources welcome.

My goal is a non goal. Try to live in the present, enjoy leisure time, and stop stressing about always having to up-skill myself. As I near my 50s, I realise life is too short to always be working. It’s okay to take a break and just enjoy stuff guilt free.

Having said that I have allowed myself one time intensive hobby - to learn Japanese. I’ve memorised around 1000 kanji and my grammar is decent. My goal is to pass the N4 or N3 next year.

This year I got pretty consistent at strength training twice a week, a lot of times I'm dead and tired but I make sure I get to the gym and at least get one set of my workout done to (a) keep the routine going and (b) not be as sore the next time. I only train my whole body once a week, but I'm happy for now with that since I just don't have the stamina to push more without neglecting my life and hating the workout sessions.

For next year, I want to start taking actual meditation courses and build a regular habit to meditate before going to bed. On top of that, I want to also relax and unwind after work without being on my computer, phone, or the TV (it's ok to pick those things up later, but I just want to rest first without screens)

As someone about to retire, I'm looking to develop passions that involve more physical activity than computerdom allows, like:

- Fix up a 30 year old motorcycle that's been just sitting far too long. Maybe resurrect a classic bike or two thereafter.

- Tour by bicycle and motorbike and write about the journey, both physical and mental.

- Hike and backpack, day hikes and longer.

- Develop musically, maybe even play the myriad instruments I've accumulated over the years. Ideally, in an ensemble.

- Find others with similar interests to hang with offline.

- Stay actively curious and engaged.

Non-technical skills

* (Continue) Dancing - Beginning of 2023, I got into street style dance and movement (including stretching which I've done now for the past 223 days) helped me get through one of the most challenging periods of my life (i.e. divorced with a child, moved from U.S. to London to single raise my daughter). Dance has now taken its life of its own and I'm finding myself competing in dance "battles" as a way to test and grow my mental fortitude.

Technical skills

* UI Design - as a low level (i.e. C developer), I currently lack the skills to make my own little toy web apps more aesthetically pleasing for not just me, but to share with others

* Photography and videography - want to increase my current level(s) since I started a YouTube channel documenting my dance journey and also create little reels for community events

* (maybe) Rust or C++

[0] - Example of dance related YouTube shorts I make: https://youtube.com/shorts/cI2LAe-MMrw

I'm learning to tailor and fabricate clothing right now. My wife and I are part time magicians and I want to be able to make our costumes ourselevs. At the moment I'm making a longline underbust corset for my wife's costume and will work up to a woman's tailcoat and eventually the goal is to make my own bespoke 3-piece late Victorian / Edwardian inspired men's suit.

It has been such a rabbit hole because, much like software development, it is not just one skill but lots of different skills and disciplines that combine. From design sketches to pattern drafting to understanding the nature of fabrics and how to cut them properly for wear and durability to the actual sewing and fitting etc.

Swimming! I started going 2x a week. I took lessons as a kid but hated it due to a fear of water after a traumatic experience in the deep-end. I don't have that fear anymore and I really enjoy it now. I can tread water! And I can float! The mechanics of swimming and floating make a lot of sense to me now. Now I'm swimming laps to find a technique that lets me swim the longest for the least amount of energy. Mostly I copy the techniques of older folks who are also swimming laps in the lanes next to me. lol.

I figure if the game I'm working on doesn't pan out then I'll go become a sailor or something. I think thats what I'm training for, potential career change.

Writing. My ability to write is highly dependent on the context. I'm much better at essays than emails, and fiction is completely outside my abilities. I would also like to change my style a little to be less flowery and more succinct. More Paul Graham than purple prose.

Marketing. I'm hopeless at it, and I need to be at least OK at it in order for my project (https://nuenki.app) to succeed.

Time management. I'm very good at obsessing over one thing; less so at managing lots of different things that need to be round-robined.

Physics and maths! I'm in my gap year at the moment, but I want to be prepared for my physics degree next year. I'm already really quite rusty.

Git. I know enough to use it, but I've no clue what a rebase is, for example.

I've had a vague interest in 3D printing for a while, but I've recently been getting into DND and it might finally justify getting one. It seems like miniatures are best with resin printers though, while most other things aren't. I also hate painting things, so maybe it isn't worth it.

German! Nuenki has distracted me from it, but I ought to properly get back to it. It's just something I enjoy - I've discovered how much fun language learning is.

And a number of other things, but the list is already quite long and I should probably be enjoying Christmas instead of browsing HN :)

Mental endurance and discipline to better handle tasks that require sustained focus, especially those I instinctively resist or dismiss, whether because I dislike them or I downplay their importance. Examples are thinking through unfamiliar and difficult problems or reading dense documentation and contracts.

I also want to improve my prioritization skills to better judge which challenging tasks truly deserve my time and mental energy, and which ones don't.

I'm happy with my software career at the moment and I think I'm on a pretty good "auto-pilot" for progressing. I want to focus on my physical health this year.

I'm about six months in of consistent weight training and it's been fantastic. I look better and I'm noticeably stronger. I want to continue my 30-45 minute, 4 day per week workouts through this next year.

The big addition that I've struggled with the most is increased cardio. My family has a history of heart issues (although I think a lot of that can be attributed to diet), and I'm definitely not the most cardio proficient individual. I'm not looking to lose weight, so eating enough will also be part of the challenge.

I'd just like to have better stamina, so it seems like regular cardio (maybe 3-4 times per week for 20-30 minutes) at a moderate to high intensity will allow me to do that.

It'll suck, especially here in the North East winters, but I'm hoping my cheap exercise bike can do me some good.

Life is pretty good right now as a young and single guy. I just want to make sure I get to live it in a healthy way for as long as I can now and hopefully get to share it with friends and family.

One of the skills I already have is the ability to work with difficult people or take on projects that need to be rescued and turn them around. That has been a valuable skill and has allowed me to develop a brand around it.

However, that doesn't mean that I enjoy working with difficult people or cleaning up other people's messes. I find those people just as off-putting as everyone else; I just happen to be better at masking it. And I find cleaning up messes just as tedious and challenging as everyone else; I just happen to be able to do it anyway.

So I think one of the skills I want to better develop in 2025 is being able to strike a better balance between the things I'm recognized for being good at and the things I actually enjoy doing.

(And if anyone has tips for how to make use of this skill set in a way that's genuinely fulfilling rather than draining, I'm all ears!)

Learning machine learning through maths and implementing some of the most common ML algorithms from scratch.

Writing technical blogs - I find it easy to write topics where there is no right or wrong, just a perspective. But would like to write some technical stuffs i learnt over the year.

Marketing and sales, so this time I succeed with having paying customers in my next product :)

Any tips or resources for solo entrepreneurs is highly appreciated!

Thanks to LLMs, I am now able to build iOS apps with Swift, which has been not only quite fun but also very useful since I was able to come up with a learning app that I wished existed for my kids with minimal effort. So I will definitely spend more time on that. Also, I'm trying to improve my time management and reduce distractions/procrastination. I enabled screen time for myself so I can create some friction between distracting habits such as social media, YouTube, etc. Also, I will be utilizing the Pomodoro technique more as well.

Writing blog posts and being ok with them not being perfect.

I often have an idea for a post that would be interesting, but then as a learn more about the topic in order to write, I start to realize how much I don’t know. At this point, the post either dies or I spend way too long learning every irrelevant detail until I feel like I know enough.

So I think the skill I am trying to learn is writing as a non-expert. Learning to write in a tone that makes it ok to not know everything. Writing in a tone that conveys my experience and understanding, but doesn’t try to be an authority on the subject.

Writing is a tough skill!

Oddly enough, for 2025 I would say writing.

I would normally think that with the rise of LLMs, writing would be come obsolete. Interestingly though, I think LLMs make good writing more valuable and at the same time more rare.

- Learn Rust so I can contribute to some open source tools I like

- Self hosting; got a raspberry PI; hoping to self host a bunch of things on in

- Continue studying/deep-diving various topics. Networking, docker, Linux, databases

- Marketing, Sales and SEO

- Make some changes to my Neovim config

- Make some changes to my QMK keyboard

Bare-metal Rust: I’ve worked professionally with Rust for 3 years, and embedded Rust for 2. But mostly on RPi 4. I want to make more hardware prototypes, and I have half a dozen ideas.

Nix for production: I’ve used NixOS on my work laptop for 9 months, and I’ve deployed it in production for on-prem CI, dashboard web servers, blogs, VPN gateways, DNS servers. But I could sink another 200 hours into more “katas”, especially wrt. deployment and handling a network of devices.

My path is to create learning material for others.

WebGL. At least for 2d graphics. And brush up on the simple aspects of the maths that are involved.

Web accessibility.

Would be great if I could finally finish a simple static website for myself. I've been stuck in the analysis paralysis phase for so long it's embarrassing.

I already make music, but I’m a really crappy piano player. I can bang out chords, but my fingerings are way wrong. I want to try to actually learn the piano.

How to parent/be a parent. I don’t have much choice in the matter, as my firstborn is coming this spring ^_^

I'm working on a project on how to help engineers become sales people and put together an ebook to start the process. I'm looking for honest feedback on the book as how it would be for a foundation to something more. You can find it here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pwirbs67lhqqtlw05hsw4/MasterT...

Let me know what you think!?

1) Learn AWK deeply, in which I will meticulously go through a copy of the original 1988 book.

2) Get better at Git.

3) Study and pass the RHCSA.

4) Get better at troubleshooting Linux servers. I can actually feel my skills improving when I can find the actual root cause of an issue, and not just a symptom that is irrelevant. (Thanks, sadservers!)

Mental fortitude and strength.

As I enter mid life I’m finding a lot of things (mentally) challenging. I’m hoping to find peace and mental strength to stay the course and enjoy the life I have built. Worry less, appreciate more, and generally just be happy.

How to skill up in this area? I’m honestly not sure, but starting with reading.

* Learning Ada. It's a language that seems to have had a lot of thought put into the avoidance of errors and bugs. I often hear people say "Language X has this amazing feature!" and the Ada people seem to say "Oh that's cool. We've had that since 1985."

* Improving my audio description skills. I'm an AD writer, and I want to get better at that, but also possibly start performing. I've got a little notion to do a podcast of Audio Description Introductions, but they're pretty hard work and I'm a bit time poor.

* Improving my writing skills generally. I've learned a lot of techniques intuitively and not with any discipline. For example, have no idea what a past participle is, but I'm going to jolly well find out.

I want to learn how to make fairly simple characters in blender, so that I can make more unique games, as opposed to using 100% pre-made assets.

1) Improved fluency in reading Latin, so I can get through more of Seneca's Letters without so many hours referring to dictionaries and my first-year (and only) textbook; 2) improve Morse code copying speed from 15 wpm to a solid 20 wpm.

Back to embedded systems, particularly with Rust.

I did computer engineering in college some 10-15 years ago, where these projects were super basic and difficult to get into. Seems like massive advancements in the past decade. Maybe my eye has been watching for these, but I'm seeing many more posts about ESP32 projects, for example, being linked here. Same for RP2040s, along with sensors galore and wifi / bluetooth connections.

Picking Rust as language for the chips instead of the C and MicroPython. Rust has applications beyond the embedded systems and learning it lower level can be helpful if wanted in other cases.

After procrastinating it for months--heck, years even, I finally started learning to draw. I just bought some sketchbook last week and already used up all of the pages.

Also is there anybody here who also draw?

Functional programming, either Haskell or Ocaml. Been putting it off for years. I know at least a glimpse of it from other languages. Just haven't doubled down to actually studying it formally.

Computer Science. After transitioning from Mechanical Engineer, and 5 years of being a "Software Engineer", I want to understand more how computers, operating systems, network, etc. work

Certifications

  - Last month, I purchased the CKA, CKAD, and CKS certifications for approximately USD 400 during a discount. I plan to take the exams in April.  
  - I might also attempt the AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification to deepen my knowledge of AWS.

University

  - I am currently pursuing a degree in AI Engineering at Universidad de Palermo. I need 16 more credits to graduate. In 2025, I plan to earn 11 credits (compared to the 14 credits I completed per year over the past two years), as I’ll have a bit more free time this year.

AI Research

  - My Neural Network professor is involved in research papers, and a few other students and I will be assisting him with his current projects.

Local Business in Maceió

  - I’m currently living in Maceió, Brazil. My fiancée recently earned her university degree and plans to open a local business next year to gain experience and generate income. I’ll support her by providing funding and helping with any IT systems she may need.

Improving Dancing Skills

  - Now that my fiancée has graduated and we no longer need to stay in Maceió as in recent years, I plan to spend some time in São Paulo improving my Zouk skills and in Buenos Aires refining my Tango.

Database engineering, and container engines/runtimes. I've become absolutely bored out of my mind writing backends, web services, etc.

For the past month I've been contributing to a sqlite rust rewrite, and I want to continue until such a point that I would feel comfortable working full time on that (not just on the relatively low hanging fruit). Also want to explore more OCI runtime internals is something I've been fascinated with for a while that I want to get into.

I'm torn between: Learning systems (POMDP, RL, etc) for planning, Quantum computing basics, or jumping whole hog into the a learning-from-scratch type course track.

With RL+Planning, my goal is to eventually be able to tradeoff classical estimation and planning with end-to-end systems, and use the best parts of either for a better-than-either pipeline. At the jobs I've had I've seen a weird false dichotomy that produces decent results once committed, but there's always this tension that "the other way" is better, producing weird politics.

Most recently, a classical planning pipeline was completely broken by an ML-based estimation of orientation of obstacles. On inspection they were using quite possibly the worst estimator you could use, and ignoring all kinds of good data, because (I think) they were counting on perfect "measurements" from the ML-based vision system. That kind of thing must happen all the time - get stuck in a local minimum of "tune just a little better" when a good filter on top of a noisy estimator could solve all your problems. There's probably a million such examples in planning systems too.

Marketing and sales, like everybody else. :)

Desktop application development. I want to make it as easy and fast to create desktop apps as it is to create a web app or a command line app.

I was just recently a developer, not even a senior, at the current job who was elevated to lead on two different teams, and there is no raise because my terms are defined as part of a larger contract. If I want more I need to become a director equivalent project manager as that is also part of this contract. That is offered to me but PMP is a required prerequisite that I don’t have. So, I guess I should get PMP.

In the meantime I have found ways to self host personal media this year from the house and make it available across the internet behind find a personal domain name. Everything is fully automated and free. If can get my finances in order this would be my start up idea: a preconfigured hardware box with custom dashboards for all household and media services that are privately available across the internet. The MVP is complete.

English, German, and all hard skills i'm slacking off: Cloud, Deep knowledge of networking and linux. Maybe finish reading Design Data Intensive Applications for good. And definitely getting a Java certification as I find it useful as a personal metric.

For my hobbies, I still hope to get things organized (in my computer, my desk and my mind) to record some metal composings.

Get in better shape. It’s not the cliched start exercising in 2025. I’ve spent most of 2024 exercising just enough to get into and stay in what I call “quality of life” shape.

I let every part of my body deteriorate since Covid into late last year. I got tired doing everyday things and even lifting my suitcase from baggage claim had me gasping.

Now from a personal scale of “1” breathing heavy just walking to a “10” running a 5K without stopping. I’ve maintained at about 6 as far cardio, strength and flexibility.

I use to run 15k’s and be a part time fitness instructor and was at my personal “9”.

Second goal is to keep my work life balance and stay at peace with where my career is.

I am retiring from tech after 20 years and embarking on a new career which requires intensive schooling. As a high school and college drop out, I will need to learn how to study again, and want to be as efficient as possible so that I may still spend ample time with my family. Any tips greatly appreciated!

Effective multiple team management. Keeping multiple teams of developers effective, motivated, and pointed in the right direction in a deadline oriented project (enterprise consulting) is almost impossibly hard. Way harder than any technical skill I’ve ever encountered.

Sleep, making quite some progress and it shows. I want to be even better.

Dev-wise: python and SQL. I have some skill in both but my new job requires it.

non-technical: marketing. My new job will be a good opportunity for it.

Perhaps also leetcode, but only if I can scooch that in.

Creative skill: starting any side project really.

I started with non-technical skills at the earlier stages of my life (sales, marketing, communication) so my goal in the next 10 years is to pick-up:

- Programming and be proficient with one language fundamentals (for now JS/TS) - launchschool seems like a great place for mastery learning.

- Math academy for learning math as an adult with a similar principle of mastery.

On a personal front I've managed to lose 14kgs with the skill of consistency of calorie tracking with Macrofactor and strength training + walking.

And last but not least the self-discovery, meditation and couple counseling made the major difference in my day to day.

I want to build/finish my second stand up paddleboard from wood (https://sliverpaddleboards.com/). I want this one to stay floating longer than 15 minutes :(

To not feel like I'm constantly under pressure and it's valid to just sit around staring holes in the environment doing nothing at all, not even thinking. Time flies but it does so anyway and you can't change that you will die eventually. Try to enjoy the moment. Also to be more tolerant of other people's stupidity, even if it affects you.

Development wise, there is nothing I need to know. I know all I need to know and I'm productive and efficient. If only other companies would and could see it that way instead of requiring the use of bullshit tech like cloud, microservices, k8s.

1. Non technical skills: Going to be parent for first time. So anxious and so learning to be a good parent 2. Technical skills: Improve Rust understanding, writing a technical blog.

Does anyone have tips on how get started with technical blog?

Finally finish a workable infinite canvas + decentralized knowledge graph project. Been way too distracted with other subplots of the project the past few months.

As for the non-technical stuffs, I'd like to at least breach the 25-minute mark in my 5ks (just under 26 minutes flat is fine). Running's been such a revelation for me this year. Definitely agreed with the idea that avoiding burnout is mostly a matter of doing the inverse of what you do on a regular basis[1].

[1]: https://gwern.net/backstop#burnout

Utilizing advice without having to learn lessons the hard way.

Probably should B1 my Spanish.

Sales. High volume sales specifically and capitalizing on opportunities that I’m maybe not ready to take on yet.

Applying consistency to my goal setting. Ie reading run rate.

I want to be able to run five miles and start weightlifting for more overall strength.

I also would love to get better at developing partnerships with experts and those who are skilled in areas I'll never be skilled in.

Deploying ML models to production. I work in silicon at an established company, and management every year wants to incorporate “ML” and “AI” into our workflows, but it doesn’t happen because a) nobody wants to risk their review on it b) the median age is 40 and it requires a brain rewiring.

I spent part of a bout of FMLA learning to develop simple PyTorch models to help with our data processing, which is sometimes frustratingly qualitative because nobody can define rigorously what they want to compute, just endless sketches and corner cases

* Improving K8S knowledge and maybe obtain a certification

* Learn a functional language (probably Elixir/Gleam)

* Launch at least one of my side projects

* Improving Mandarin skills

* Ending the long track of one of my favourite cycling granfondo (Nove Colli)

I want to solve a rubiks cube in less than a minute. Less than 30 seconds would be really cool.

Got a nice speed cube with magnets for christmas, so that's the first important step on the journey :-)

1. Finishing a novel.. I finished a first draft of a novel a while ago. I'd like to finish another, and then take it to final draft. 2. Animation. With the skill of finishing my novel. I'd also like to animate it. 3. Voice acting. I'd like to be able to narrate said animation/novel.

Steps I'm taking. Write every day, Draw every day, Practice voices while I go for walks every day. (with my iphone/airpods recording me; so I look like I'm on the phone, not nuts.)

Pottery/ceramics throwing. I want to learn to make cups and plates. I'm tired of computers. I already know enough to be able to write useful programs and get the job done.

One-arm handstand.

And I wanna play keys (and ideally also sing) in a band again.

Spanish! Been learning for about 4 months and just had my first opportunity to speak a lot, stayed with a spanish speaking family for 4 days. It went much worse than expected, I couldnt understand anything and spoke so slowly that I only had a few oppirtubities to join the conversation. So I hope by the end of 2025 ill be a little more fluent.

Using a program called learncraft spanish currently and its been very very effective imo. Recommendations for learning strategies are welcome!

The ability to separate work and family, spending time with my family, and to act on some long-standing personal projects and books waiting to be read. I want rely on work to drive work-related skills while re-capturing some of my personal time for personal endeavors. For work, I hope to get into Rust with embedded systems, FPGAs, and increasing general-purpose software skills on the backend and frontend side as well.

The decisions were made more than a year ago, but the goals should be reached in 2025. Nothing special, but I just have to put in the work

  - Running: I want to run a marathon under 4h in 2025. My smartwatch currently predicts 4:01:20 (was 4:30 beginning of the year)
  - Chess: I want to improve my FIDE rating to 2100 (I'm at 2050 now and was 1930 in 2023)

I just want to do more math.

* I want to learn how to make a game from beginning to end.

* Math. Got two books to refresh my skills.

* Improve my parenting.

* Get back to sxratchin (turntables) and making beats.

* Put my work out.

I want to learn how to sleep well again. The difference in how I feel when sleep deprived versus fully rested is staggering.

Ruby. I've done a range of languages, for example C, pascal, java, VB, PHP, javascript. But Ruby seems distinct from all of them in both syntax and concept (hashes, etc). I'd like to get to a point where I have a confidence that the programs I write are using efficient data structures and algorithms.

Learning to forgive and let go of resentment

I will work on actually connecting with people IRL. It’s always been my tendency to retreat socially but Covid was the final nail in the coffin for my social life. So I will go out of my way to spend time with others.

Also I will keep working on learning rust for no particular reason at all :)

I keep hearing about people building entire programs with Claude, etc and I haven’t figured that out yet. So far I use and like copilot, etc but it’s just a slight improvement, nothing huge. I’d like to figure out what I’m missing.

Also, professional development. I think I’ve never learned to sell myself.

I want to seriously boost my Japanese vocabulary and kanji knowledge through reading. I'm already fluent, but my goal now is to reach a level where I feel comfortable and legitimate to request naturalization.

Based on my current job, something related to global water monitoring and modelling, rock water reactions, and geophysical inversion methods.

Based on my interests, music theory, acoustic wave modelling, bicycle maintenance.

Based on the job interviews I been on, Rust.

1. speak english properly, because i'm planning to move abroad, and get a job as an engineer.

2. how to self hosting, like buy a cheap machine, create a website like blog, setup a kubernetes cluster, backup and security stuff (for learning purposes)

3. drive a car

EKG interpretation - I doubt I'll get around to ultrasound and CT in 2025, they're a good bit more complicated.

I also recently got a Quest 3, so hoping to learn some basic modeling and rigging, I want to make a VR medical clinic.

Learn Rust (for real this year). Increase my lifting PRs. Paint 40k models well. Honestly just get healthier. I've been lacking in 2024. Take up bow hunting because guns are too loud and if you ask me a bit gauche.

Simply survive the hardest year of classes I'll ever take. Help finish the paper from my undergrad, get a good start on my PhD research, maybe date a girl, start going to open mics again

Film photography and Darkroom work, with an emphasis on street photography. I started a few months ago after two decades of shooting digital and have had a lot of fun with a more physical chemical process.

Basic Electronics- So I can modify my kids toys to change the sounds on it or lower the volume on some toys. Then progress into something like bird feeder with camera and bird recognition

1) finish EMT rookie book, become full EMT

2) understand and perform experiment power analysis, run several experiments

3) get certified on ski toboggans to at least blue runs

4) drop 30 lbs to survive #5

5) pass fire academy

6) learn enough android and ios to build UI to run several experiments

7) 1 pull-up

I'd like to learn how to use a closed-circuit rebreather (CCR) for scuba diving. The increasing price of helium is making the deep open-circuit diving impractical.

Practical AI/ML, and not all the marketing buzz.

Does anyone know of a good “AI/ML for Dummies” … from the basics.

I do not want something that is just teaching me dozens of frameworks or toolkits.

* Climb v7 consistently + one arm pull up.

* 100+ monthly listeners on Spotify.

* Find girlfriend.

- financial management skills. how to allocate and manage capital and get value from money. to me elon musk is mainly a very successful private equity investor. imo if you can do that, you can do anything.

- fitness discipline, moderation and better consistent average performance than hitting PR's.

- musical literacy. I'd like to be able to read a score and hear it instead of just sounding out each note.

- horsemanship, continue the journey into a third decade, train up another young horse but this time with more lightness.

having amateur interests is a strange dynamic. what is more absurd? the ridiculousness of being an adult trying learn things that children do and that other people have already spent entire lifetimes and sacrificed other opportunities to learn- or not learning them or developing the physical competence, but having mere opinions and taste about them?

Perfecting the Zen of my Solipsism, thereby manifesting good Solomonic world domination.

Better modulation of the implosions caused by short, consecutive teleportations.

I'd like to get a deeper understanding of dynamic recompilation and implement a few PoCs based on different stages of techniques.

Sales, sales, sales. I've been in tech so long but as a founder this is where I need to really focus. ABC for me all the way in 2025.

Patience, empathy, understanding and forgiveness.

Social skills, full stop.

I want to learn hosting, making and maintaining friendships, fluid small talk with strangers, and becoming magnetic.

I'd like to drastically cut out alcohol, do more home improvement projects, and go out to events solo more often.

Releasing stuff.

Study for and Pass the CKA exam

Ansible

Improve my programming, either via CS50 or the new edition of Think Python

Put my synth collection to use

learn about finance https://www.streetofwalls.com/

learn about language https://www.dliflc.edu/elearning/

I'm working on genuinely connecting with people. My wife, my kids, my friends, strangers.

I've always been a "stuff it", sort of guy. Not wanting to bother people with my problems. It turns out sharing the good and bad moments of your life with others not only is liberating, but it's an excellent way of showing others that you trust them. It's not all roses though, I've noticed that it's pretty easy to come across as a negative person when you first start doing this.

Also, I've observed that frequently, when doing the right thing while supporting someone, you can still hurt them immensely. Your perspective and their perspective can be so wildly different that it's almost like two entirely different realities exist. I don't know what to do about this one, but I'm going to be sinking considerable thought into it.

Honestly, when I type that out it seems like this shouldn't be a revelation to me. That these are things that most well adjusted normies "just get', but hey, I'm just a neckbeard. Better late than never. Perhaps I'm not the only one.

Learn how to use (Neo)vim.

Nix, nix nix nix nix nix and nix.

Also, delegation.

More health

More friendship

Code using AI;

For that I will try launching from idea to production a solo project.

stop taking it so personal if some one critiques me at work. in hindsight i never really know why i even care. but in the respective moment i immediately feel attacked.

Don't waste your time with people who waste your time.

Learning Rust.

Learning how to draw.

i want too learn go,contribute to GO open source projects, do bug bounty hunting, and switch security related jobs

Liveview Native and swiftui is on my wish list

I want to win every argument I have in here.

Prompt engineering.

Habits > Motivation - Develop a set of habits and behaviors that force me to work on my side projects everyday even if for just 5 minutes. The sporadic bursts of motivation that push me into the hyperfocus mode are actually useless if I can’t finish the project and it’s 80% done in perpetuity.

Networking - I find it really hard to approach random people and finding any connection.

Sales - finding and converting clients is a must if I am to seriously consider doing freelance engineering or entrepreneurship.

Do you guys think it’s worth reaching out to a professional coach wrt the points listed above?

No fap

CI/CD bottom-up.

entrepreneurship

To leave the rat race.

Woodworking.

Ashtanga Yoga

Networking

I want to be bigger and fluffier.

replace Wordpress

Self compassion

Well, for context I've worked as a frontend developer the past 2 years, but I want to dive much, much, much deeper into computing. Because most people I talk to in my career, present-self included, don't know anything about computers at a deep level, or networking, or graphics, or Electrical Engineering etc.

I've had an epiphany where I realise I waste too much time on smartphones and social media, TV and media, my career and the pursuit of financial stability, and I don't really understand anything deeply. Nor do 99.9% of people, and I want to change that about myself.

So - I've rid myself of all social media accounts (years ago - except HN), sold my TV and consoles (except switch - past year), blocked at a network level all news sites (recently), I've rid myself of a smart phone and now just use an old brick + a notebook to write thoughts in (past 3 months). I want to keep taking this process further.

I've lost interest in web stuff, its not that interesting if you think about it, and its a very high level of abstraction.

I've seen the light - there are amazing areas of computing out there if you look outside of career economics min maxing - Graphics, Emulation, Firmware/Embedded, Hand-written Assembly.

With all my new found free time, and desire to peel away layers of abstraction:

In Computing/ Electronics:

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- Going to complete Nand2Tetris to fully understand computers from the ground up. Already 4 projects deep.

- After the above, learn an HDL like VHDL or Verilog to emulate retro consoles via FPGA's, starting with chip emulation, then gradually moving to retro consoles. These old games were amazingly optimised.

- Write at least 1 small program in an assembly language. Just want to see how hard/constrained it is compared to C.

- Take Ben Eaters course to build an 8bit computer physically from scratch, or just try it myself without guidance. To crack into the Electronics side of things.

- Keep working on my pseudo-3D terminal ASCII renderer written in C and ncurses (you can walk through fully detailed 3D ASCII forests etc, but the code is dogshit currently)

- Take as many papers from OSSU [0] as I can reasonably fit into the year esp Mathematics and Graphics papers

- Complete my content blocking browser extension

- Continue modding old games, go deeper, like Fallout

- Commit to extended "No LLM" periods (days/weeks/months) because its making people stupid, present self included. And what are LLM's but statistical averaging machines. Average in, average out.

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In other areas of life:

- I want to understand how the clothes I wear are made, from scratch. So you take a plant, process it for fiber, process the fibers? Then knit the fibers together to make an item? I want to run through that process with my own hands: everything except planting the plant itself.

- Same with how our homes are made. Wood. Wood gets processed, you get timber, you get planks etc, you build a structure. I want to fell a tree and build a dog house, though realistically this wont happen next year.

- I want to develop self control with food. I currently eat meat, but I wouldn't want to slaughter an animal by my own hand. So, in my own eyes, I am a pathetic person for eating meat and off-handing the slaughter and process step to a third party. So, I want to stop eating land based meats, because the result is not something I could produce by my own hand. I have tried to go pescatarian before, but it didn't stick forever.

[0] - https://github.com/ossu/computer-science?tab=readme-ov-file#...

Discipline all day. My life is rarely the reason for me not practicing the other skills I want to develop. Other than that I want to try out some pixel art, write more stories, and maybe some more pickup volleyball.