General:
- Save 20% of our income
- Take a family vacation
- Get a nice (professional) family photo taken
- Unsubscribe from at least half my current RSS feeds
- Find a better system for organizing and sharing family photos and videos
- Renew my passport
- Consolidate my old retirement accounts
Cooking:
- Cook five new things, from at least three from different sources (cookbooks, websites, etc)
- Find a good dairy-free ice cream recipe
Projects:
- Launch at least one project from my brainstorm list
- Make a game other people can play
- Publish a family cookbook
Exercise:
- 50 pushups a day (or 350 a week)
- 60 minutes of cardio per week
- 60 minutes of stretching per week
- One Darebee program every month
Books to read:
- How We Learn To Move
- The Art of Learning
- News of the World
- The Rust Programming Language
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
- Shape Up
- Children of Dune
Books in consideration:
- Moby Dick
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- The Great Gatsby
- To Raise a Boy
- These Truths
- Rich, White and Blue
- Blue Ocean Strategy
- The Round House: A Novel
- Southern Cross the Dog
- The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese
- The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
- Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
- The Good Lord Bird: A Novel
- All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
- The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
- Exit West: A Novel
- Educated: A Memoir
- Sourdough: A Novel
- Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
- The Dutch House: A Novel
- The Island of Sea Women: A Novel
- The Pope and Mussolini
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Horse
Books:
Jan. 9: How We Learn to Move is changing my entire thinking on athletic training. I picked it up because people I follow in jiujitsu were talking about it, and it's fascinating, approachable and immediately applicable. Has me going down a rabbit hole on ecological dynamics.
Feb. 28: The Art of Learning is a good memoir. I'm not sure it's a replicable model, but it has some interesting ideas.
May 28: I took a long time to meander through News of the World, but I enjoyed every word of it. The book and the movie are just different enough to both be worth the time.
June 26: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is likely to be the book I'm telling everyone to read for the next year, in the way The Lincoln Highway has been (and still is). Beautiful writing and great characters.
June 30: I think I've read enough of The Rust Book to mark that one done. I need to find some projects to do in Rust now.
Dec. 28: Finished Children of Dune. I think I need to complete the series now. Things are going to get weird.