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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

Books to read:

  • Heretics of Dune
  • Chapterhouse: Dune
  • InkHeart
  • Her Own Hero
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Star Wars: Into the Light

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
  • Why I Cook
  • The Inner Game of Tennis
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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.

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