Personal Goals

To Do This Week

• Complete Calculations in Clojure
• Research one item from my list of things I am ignorant about
• Look into west side Alamo Code meetup
• Have an Exploring Clojure Hangout
• Run for a portion of every walk this week
• Complete slides for You don't know JS Book 3 Chapters 1 & 2
• Hike Eisenhauer Park

Next Week

Expose My Ignorance (0 Educated)

• I need to learn to handle Unicode
• I need to learn better navigation habits in vim
• I need to learn about generating documentation from Python
• I need to improve my knowledge of Python modules
• I need to learn to recognize and write ideomatic Python

Short Term Tasks

• Read the specifications for Clojure
• Use better dotfiles https://dotfiles.github.io/
• Try Purely Functional tv
• Create a tool to generate a blog post template for jh
• Create a tool that tracks how many blog posts I write a week
• Create a tool that tracks if I make all 7 3x5 cards in a week
• Read Clojure style guide. https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide
• Read about Clojure code quality tools http://blog.mattgauger.com/blog/2014/09/15/clojure-code-quality-tools/
• Write Concatenation does not mean "with cats"
• Read .Net with Linux http://midnightprogrammer.net/post/Getting-Started-With-ASPNET-5-On-Ubuntu/ or http://blog.tonysneed.com/2015/05/25/develop-and-deploy-asp-net-5-apps-on-linux/

2016 Reading List (2 Complete)

• Read Living Clojure
• Read Clojure for the brave and true
• Read Test Driven Development with Python
• Read Fluent Python
• Read Unix Power Tools
• Read Practical Vim
• Read Docker Up & Running
• Read Release It!
• Read The Tangled Web
• Read Learn Vimscript the Hard Way
• Read How to make sense of any mess
• Figure out how to run a windows virtual box http://itsfoss.com/install-windows-10-virtualbox-linux/

2016 Goals (1 Complete)

• Publish CodeNewbie Challenges
• Contribute to open source projects
• Transition from walking to running
• Write 2 blog posts a week
• Level up my Python skills
• Refresh my Ruby skills
• Learn Django
• Speak at a conference
• Hunt and devour "ugly frogs"
• Attend technical conferences
• Read 75 books
• Read more code
• Keep my resume up to date
• Practice an agile family
• Help my kids to achieve their goals
• Lead Python Thursday
• Build a Clojure group
• Grow Alamo Code Learners
• Lean into developing tech groups
• Do work for a good cause
• Learn Clojure
• Daily 3x5s
• Write a book
• Get involved with dotNET on Linux
• Write better

High level goals

• Pay it forward
• Na eínai kalýtero ánthropo apó ton patéra sou
• Live on my own terms
• Be so good they can't ignore me
• Nurture family
• Develop thriving friendly community
• Be Kind
• Geek out on whatever makes me the most me I can be, and trust in the process

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I am open sourcing these goals for accessibility across computers I use, transparency, accountability, and versioning.