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Discussion on: New Year's Resolutions Suck! Pick a Theme of the Year

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Josh Hadik • Edited

Love this idea. Resolutions never quite seem to work out for me.

Here's Mine: The Year of Execution

(execution as in executing a plan.)

Looking back, if I had to pick a theme for 2018, it would be the Year of Learning... which was awesome! I learned a ton over the last year (Docker, Kubernetes, React, Vue, Photoshop, AWS, GCP, CI/CD, Elixir, Phoenix, Adobe Illustrator, Swift & iOS Development, Alexa Skill Development, etc), and I wouldn't trade that for anything. But I also understand that learning only takes me so far.

Unfortunately, 2018 also ended up being the Year of a Thousand Half Finished Side Projects.

For 2019 I'm gonna try to shift gears and focus on what's important. Instead of letting every new technology I come across side track me and send me on a three-week long learning / experimenting binge, I'm gonna try to focus on one project at a time, build it with a strict MVP mindset, and work on it till it's done.

By the end of 2019, I'd love to be able to showcase a handful of high quality apps and projects instead of the interconnected mess of unfinished projects and dependencies I built over 2018 (and who knows, maybe one of those apps could be the catalyst I need to finally start that business I've been talking about for five years.)

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Frederik 👨‍💻➡️🌐 Creemers

Great theme!

If you're looking for app ideas, I'm still looking for a great question-answer style diary that syncs across iPhone and mac/web, but looking forward to anything you build in 2019!

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Josh Hadik • Edited

Weirdly enough that's actually one of the 'thousand projects' I started this year. I was developing it as an Alexa skill at the time, but I always planned on making iOS and Web versions of it afterwards. So yeah maybe I will take another stab at it... I'm focusing on my portfolio site right now but once I'm done with that I might give it a go!