Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2015?

Perhaps you mean 2015 ?

Last year's thread:

1. Graduate before september so I can start my PhD position. √

2. Date more. √

3. Move to a better place. √

Great success!

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1. Publish, publish, publish

2. Start side-business

3. Stop gaining weight

How big can a plan be for 13 hours and 40 minutes remaining for 2014 (in my timezone)?

I guess that would depend on the degree of preparation. Perhaps I've prepared for ever to become Master of the World at 23:59:59? That would be a big plan for 2014 :-)

Ship on the big project that originally drove me into programming.

Nothing fancy :

- contribute at one open source project. I use OSS so much that I feel I should give back even a little.

- manage successfully to reach day 14 of my fasting experiment that started December 26th then continue to fast one day a week

- finally start the side project that is bugging me since 2007 !

- find an alternative source of income (this is sorely needed and might be provided by the side project)

- get better at my hobby

- Learn the Ada programming language (just because)

1. Exercise 6 days/week.

2. Work on one thing at a time (no more multi-tasking). This includes not doing something else while talking to somebody.

3. Plan out when to do work the day it's assigned, and don't leave it to the last minute.

4. Meditate daily.

5. Minimize distractions. That is, no reddit, less Facebook, Twitter, and HN.

I guess those are more goals than plans, but same idea.

Edit to add: get into shape to run a marathon in late 2015 or early 2016. I ran one last year, but I've lost most of my progress this year.

My "big plan" is to have only small plans this year, one plan at the time.

Write one more book (wrote one last year)

Run a marathon (new to running, so a BIG task)

Quit my job (been three months in a job and already want to quit) and do something that throws some money at me

1. Read (books) for at least an hour a day.

2. Start experimenting with quantum algorithms.

3. Expand my social circle.

4. Be more positive.

Become a product manager (at least part-time). I was a developer for 7 years and never progressed towards PM, so I've just left my company, created my bootstrapped start-up because no-one would ever believe in me, got experience at copywriting, marketing, negociation, product roadmap planing, went to conferences, talked at some, (all of those in addition to developing the product obviously), sold enough copies within the first year to make a nice living... I think I've proven my point that I'm not bad at it, as opposed to the stigma we face when we're programmers, so next year I hope to be hired in a proper company to do the same job.

1. Launch one profitable product 2. Finish my Arduino ultimate machine 3. Launch one new passive income source 4. Sleep better 5. More family time 6. Learn d3.js 2014 I struck out on all fronts

- Finish the half of the projects I started in 2014.

I want to get more into HW after decade of working on pure software stuff. I bought Raspberry Pi, Arduino and couple of modules and will try to create something interesting and maybe get it into production of some magnitude.

My other big project this year is to find new home for my tiny winery: I am looking for new land to build proper facilities and acquire more vineyards as well.

My aim for 2015 is to spend more time with my family. To do this will probably involve a change of job etc. But that is my main goal.

- Finish my book (on Docker) and do a decent job of it.

- Learn a couple of songs on guitar (2014 failure).

- Move flat.

I've got a 2 year plan that starts tomorrow - since I've decided to quit university my plan is to bootstrap a business that would make a profit of atleast the same amount that I would have had to pay for the degree (4400 eur) in the same amount of time that I would have had to spend learning (2 years).

I'm pretty positive about my chances, though this will be my first attempt at `doing business`

Spend less time with friends and more time on programming and playing games.

My big plans are as follows:

- Start my own consultancy (and resign from my comfortable, well-paid job at a big consultancy)

- Monetize my reasonably popular yet underpromoted open source project

Improve myself and enjoy life as much as possible.

React less to people and circumstances (as in don't get annoyed, upset, angry).

Finish some side project and try and get some freelance work once when I can show people the sort of things I do.

1. Hopefully ship a couple of big internal projects that would basically make me a product manager.

2. find the courage to actually launch a silly viral website I've done in my spare time. It's been sitting on my disk for a couple of months now, ready to go, but I fear the maintenance burden I'll get once launched.

3. if the two above items flounder, retool -- in 2016 my current job will likely be obsolete, so I have to prepare for that.

- Improve my health. I'm so bad at waking up early it's not even funny, much less do any kind of exercise.

- Have a good social life. Go out on dates etc.

- Learn a new language and stick with it. Contribute to open source if possible.

- Earn more money. Maybe ask for another raise or ugh, I dunno.

- Visit another country.

1. Read more books (now that I have a Kindle, shouldn't be a problem)

2. Visit Shanghai

3. Start my work for ESA (European Space Agency)

4. Launch a couple of projects I've been working on recently

5. Participate in at least 3 Kaggle challenges

6. Finish recording my album

7. Gain some weight, do more sports

8. Try and finish my startup project, if it turns out to be a dead-end financially, open-source it

Reduce the time I spend staring dead-eyed at the internet. I still want to spend some of my free time programming (I'm a student) but I don't enjoy killing hours mindlessly looping through the same three or so sites.

Otherwise - get better at systems programming. Learn an ML language maybe. Study algorithms. Go to college.

1.Socialise more

2.Travel more

3.Work on a OSS and on Quantum Algos (picked this up from other comments to ths thread)

4.increase my breadth while maintaing depth in the work that i do

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posting it here as a permanent reminder to myself