General:
- Save 20% of our income
- Take a family vacation
- Get a nice (professional) family photo taken
- Consolidate my old retirement accounts
- Renew the kids' passports
- 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
- 60 minutes of weight training per week
- Swim across the pond (and back) at Hale
Books to read:
- Heretics of Dune
- Chapterhouse: Dune
- InkHeart
- Her Own Hero
- The Great Gatsby
- Star Wars: Into the Light
- Why I Cook
- Star Wars: Trials of the Jedi
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- Uniquely Human
Books in consideration:
- Moby Dick
- 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
Gyms
Got a regular training day going with Ben and Conor (at Ben's place), so I can do more game-based BJJ rounds and get Ben's help with kettlebells. That's been great.
Visited Danger Room in Minneapolis when I was there for NICAR. Made me realize how out-of-practice I am in the gi.
Finally made it out to Bellingham and got to roll with Jeff and his guys. Great time out there. Wish it weren't 3,000 miles away.
Emily Kwok seminar at Mass BJJ was fantastic. I should get out to that gym more often. Everyone is super nice there.
Got out to Bay State BJJ in Natick and rolled with some of the old Sunday crew. Great to see everyone and get some rounds with new people.