Tag: Life

At the beginning of the year I published a post outlining what some of my goals for the year were. In the spirit of being transparent, here is the progress I made on them over the course of January –

1. Due to personal reasons I don’t think I made myself as available as I could have. I’m sorry. 
2. Zero volunteering done in January. I’m disappointed that I missed this goal in the very first month of the year.
3. Made good progress on keeping the procrastination down to a minimum (I’d say almost zero procrastination).
4. Was completely honest and open throughout the course of January. Almost painfully so.
5. I realized that my Rust skills were a bit…rusty. I re-read the first two chapters of the Rust book.
6. I read 4 books over the course of January: Seveneves (I really enjoyed it. The second half of the book was fantastic), The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll’s House (excellent. This series is so good!), The Complete Maus (no book has made me cry so much. This is my favorite book of all time), and Kafka on the Shore (very enjoyable and probably my favorite story by Murakami so far. I added numerous lines from this book to my list) 
7. I read 3 research papers: Hekaton, f4, and Borg.
8. I wrote 15 blog posts.
9. Made good progress at playing the guitar. I started a separate website for tracking this.
10. (a) Did not run an 8 min mile. In fact the best I did this month was 9m50s.
    (b) Made very good progress at doing a handstand. I’m fairly confident I should be able to do one by the end of February.
    (c) Managed to squat 285 lb. ~15 more lb to go!
    (d) Did not run any half marathons.
    (e) Managed to do one muscle up with +20 lb on me. Yay goal achieved!

(somewhere along the I-280)

“If you could have one super power what would it be?”

“The power to control electricity.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. Think about it. Almost everything around us is controlled by electricity in some form. If you could control electricity you could control everything.”

“Hmm. Interesting. I’d love to have the power of teleportation. That would be so awesome! You could just teleport to Mars!”

“But the lack of atmosphere would kill you.”

“Nah I’d be wearing a suit.”

“Make sure to wear a nice tie as well.”

“Heh. But come to think of it time travel would be a sweet power to have as well.”

“Why didn’t I say that? It is something I’ve thought of in the past. Quite a bit in fact. I change my answer to total control over the flow of time. And the ability to move forward and backwards in time.”

I’m leaving for San Francisco in a couple of hours. Here is how I fared on my vacation goals:

• Made decent progress on my Pocket list.
• Read 4 research papers: a paper on AsterixDB, a paper on Hekaton, a paper on f4, and a paper on Borg.
• Finished Seveneves. I really enjoyed it.
• Did not run three miles everyday. I think I ran about half the days I was here.
• I figured out what my goals for 2016 are.