2025 Resolutions?

Spend two consecutive days without the internet per week (in 2024 it was one day -- every Sunday was "internet-free"). I work remotely but with a flexible schedule so it's not too difficult.

Reify BitGrid[1] in silicon, using Tiny Tapeout.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Setup a better home gym so I can save time and not have excuses on off days.

Get my body into amazing shape. Already in progress with this but I need to adjust my diet a bit more and lift harder.

Stockpile cash through more aggressive savings.

Overall theme: Get back to my hobbies

- Gym 3x/week + go for a run 3x/week

- Write and record a song (lyrics + guitar) every week

- Print one photo in the darkroom per week

And then to make this all easier (inspired by the top comment atm)

- Internet-free Sunday

- After 10 Years I want to do a PR in either squats, on the bench or DL

- Running a 10k in under 50 min

- Doing some 24h bike race

- Solving the shortage of skilled workers with help of my better half :D

My goals for the new year:

1) Make at least 2k dollars this year from Tech jobs.

2) Learn React Native and ASP.Net Core and be job ready in them. I'm already really good with Django, Express JS and Svelte, I want to expand.

3) Read more books and more news articles. I only read two books in 2024. I used to aim for 24, but I'm aiming for 12 this year. Watch more movies and TV shows. Just be me again.

I wanted to add working out and gaining muscle mass, but honestly I'm not that motivated in that area.

Not sure. I ought to go back to the gym. Once you're there, you're glad you're went, and in daily life it's also quite pleasant to be physically and mentally healthier.

I'm starting uni in September. I'd like to really get a lot done in the remaining portion of my gap year. Not just the hard stuff (my project[0], revising maths and physics after a long break, etc), but also literature and reading.

I'm worried about AI. Really quite worried, actually. I get the sense that this forum is almost engaged in a collective exercise of cognitive dissonance to avoid the implications of the rapid progress that we're all so aware of.

It's funny, I chose a physics degree in part because I felt it would provide some security from AI, but that seems to be disappearing before I've even started it.

Really, though, I have done what I can. What else is there to do but wait and see? A New Year's resolution won't do anything about it.

So perhaps, instead, I should merely resolve to sleep. It's 1AM here and I'm on Hacker News!

[0] https://nuenki.app . Couldn't resist :P

    - Build a ray-tracer
    - Build a game from ray-tracer
    - Finish Nand2Tetris
    - Commit to LLM free days/weeks/months
    - Read more

What are your main concerns about AIpocalipse?

I'm sticking closely to the same as last years and the year before that: [0]

To not have any 'New Years Resolution" and instead prepare for 2030.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38828584

Me:

Learn x64 assembly, dynarec and implement a simple one. Maybe find some real work in OSS if possible.

Not exactly a New Year's Resolution, but something I'm working on at the moment is learning the guitar, a third language, critical thinking, gaining a better understanding of various philosophical concepts, attending club dance parties even more, and deliberately practising software architecture.