General:
- Save 20% of our income
- Take a family vacation
- Get a nice (professional) family photo taken
- Consolidate my old retirement accounts
- Publish one piece of writing a week (a blog post, freelance piece, etc)
- Update my personal site's visual style to improve readability and make blog posts more prominent
Cooking:
- Cook five new things, from at least three from different sources (cookbooks, websites, etc)
BJJ: Variety, Confidence, Fitness
- Visit at least six gyms that aren't mine
- Roll with any new person who comes in the gym
- Roll for one continuous 30-minute round
Projects:
- Launch at least one project from my brainstorm list
- Make a game other people can play
- Generate at least $1,000 in revenue from side projects
Exercise:
- 60 minutes of cardio per week
- 60 minutes of stretching or mobility work per week
- Simple at 24 kg - 100 one-arm swings, 10 Turkish getups
- Swim across the pond (and back) at Hale
Books to read:
- Moby Dick
Books in consideration:
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- 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
- Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
- The Good Lord Bird: A Novel
- The Underground Railroad: A Novel
- Exit West: A Novel
- Educated: A Memoir
- Sourdough: A Novel
- Pachinko
- The Dutch House: A Novel
- The Island of Sea Women: A Novel
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Horse
- Learning to Optimize Movement
- Demon Copperhead
- Remarkably Bright Creatures
- Mother Night
- Let Us Descend
- West with Giraffes
- The Three-Body Problem
- Parable of the Sower
- Leviathan Wakes
- The Inner Game of Tennis
- Psalm for the Wild Built
- James
Books
Jan. 31: Moby Dick has been on my reading list since I started doing annual goals 11 years ago. Now it's done. Won't be the last time I read it, I'm sure. Thanks to Jacob Harris for roping me into the Month of Dick on bluesky, where it was actually fun to go through this weird, wild novel that barely feels like it's about whaling at all.