For a long time I've been writing down goals. I think it started with new years resolutions, then it became monthly resolutions. Lately I've been doing monthly goals where I list out my top 25 goals and organize them by priority, then pick a few to tackle for the month. On the first of any month, I'll probably be doing this.
Career Related
I have a lot of internal goals at Code School that don't make sense to chat about, but there is one external one that I'm passionate about.
- Teach a course at Code School each year
- 2013 - Try jQuery, jQuery: The Return Flight
- 2014 - Warming Up With Ember.js
- 2015 - Blasting Off With Bootstrap
- 2016 - Drawing Data with D3.js
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Speak at a Major ConferenceJSConf 2014 -
Speak at a usergroup2006
Projects
Turning ideas into reality. Most of these aren't used by many people, but were fun to create.
- Financial Tracking / Visualizations using D3?
- Cocktail matching / Recipe site with Neo4j?
- Add some kind of map to Photo posts?
- Book Tracking Application /books, 2013
- What powers websites? lineofthought.com, 2011, retired
- Movie View Tracking Website movief.ly, 2010, retired
- Arcade Locations Website arcadefly.com, 2008, retired
- DDR Website ddrei.com, 2001, retired
Programming
What's on my plate to learn? Anything that's marked off means I'm familiar with it enough to be dangerous -- but not neceesarily an expert.
- ES2015
- React.js
- Angular 2
- Neo4j
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D3.js2015 -
Foundation2015 -
Angular.js2014 -
Node.js / Express2014 -
Ember.js2013 -
Bootstrap2013 -
R2013 -
Sass2012 -
CoffeeScript2011 -
Solr2011 -
jQuery2009 -
Ruby on Rails2008 -
Java2007 -
Prototype2006 -
Coldfusion2005 -
Wordpress2002 -
SQL2001 -
PHP2001
Travel
- Stay in a different country for a month
- Stay in a different country for a year
- Americas
- Visit Vancouver
- Visit Portland for a week
- Visit Boston for a week
- Visit Charleston
- Visit Puerto Rico
- Visit Cuba
- Visit all 50 states 40 states down, 10 to go!
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Visit MontrealVisited in August 2015 -
Visit ChicagoVisited in June 2014 -
Visit New YorkVisited in December 2011
- Asia
- Visit Thailand
- Visit Singapore
- Visit China
- Visit Taiwan
- Visit Korea
- Visit India
- Visit Vietnam
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Visit Japan2 Week Trip in March/April 2014
- Europe
- Visit Iceland
- Travel around France
- Visit Spain
- Visit Poland
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Visit Finland2016 -
Visit Germany2016 -
Visit ItalyVisited in January 2015 -
Visit France & ParisVisited in December 2012 -
Visit the UK & LondonVisited in December 2012 -
Visit AmsterdamVisited in December 2012 2015 2016
Media
- Read all the books
- Read 100 books in a year 2016?
- Read 75 books in a year 78 in 2015
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Read 50 books in a year2015 -
Read 25 books in a year45 in 2013 44 in 2014
- Read all of NPR's top 100 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books ~45 done!
- Watch the top 250 Movies on the IMDB/RottenTomatoes cross movie list ~117 done!
Personal
- Minimalism - Down to 100 personal possessions I should count these
- Digitize all collections that I can movies music photos
- Payoff mortgage By 2022?
Fitness
- Back Squat
- 200 - July 2012
- 225 - November, 2013
- 250 - May, 2014
- 275
- Goal: 300 (twice my weight)
- Snatch
- 125 - August 2015
- Goal: 150 (bodyweight)
- Clean and Jerk
- 175 - July 2015
- 185 - June 2016
- 200
- Goal: 225 (1.5x bodyweight)
- Ring Muscle Ups
- First kipping in October, 2013.
- Strict muscle up
- Bar Muscle Ups
- First kipping in October, 2013.
- Strict muscle up
- Run a Mile
- Under 7 Minutes
- Under 6:30 minutes
- Handstand Walks
- 1m walk
- 3m walk
- 6m walk
- 1 minute hold
- 3 minute hold
- 50m walk!