Professional Goals

These are some of the professional goals I'm pursuing in 2024.

1. Overcome procrastination 😅

I'm bad about putting things off until the last minute and would like to change this behavior.

Action Steps:

1. Effectively plan ahead with a todo-list.
2. Set aside specific times to work on tasks and timebox them + signal to my team over Slack that I'm unavailable.
3. Do a better job of identifying and prioritizing tasks that need the most attention.

Timeline:
I hope to start working on this immediately, but it's not a finite goal and so will be continuous.

2. Help mentors and mentees connect 🤝

I'd like to create a piece of ritual content that allows for mentors and mentees to connect with one another.

Action Steps:

1. Draft the post and run it by the team.
2. Contact various folks: those who have requested this program in the past & those who I think might want to put themselves out there as mentors.
3. Continuously share and promote this new post on a regular cadence.

Timeline:
I hope to get this one rolling before the month is up!

3. Improve AI and listicle moderation 🤖📝

This year, I'd like for us to make progress with our abilities and process for moderating AI and listicles posts — 2 types of posts that quite a few community members have let us know they wish they could filter out from their feeds.

Action Steps:

1. Confer with various parties to gather ideas that we could use to improve our methods.
2. Select a number of these ideas to take to the next stage and implement various solutions.
3. Come up with solid ways of measuring the success of these solutions and community sentiment to see if we've made progress.

Timeline:
This is something I plan to work on all year.

Personal Aspirations

For this section, I plan to keep it a little looser... here's my list:

• Participate in Veganuary (though as noted here, I've technically already lost 😅)
• Completing this 22 day ab workout (and continuing to work on my core afterwards)
• Getting to where I can do 3 sets of 10 pullups
• Write, record, and produce a full-length original song
• Play a concert with my band
• Read a book at least 2 hours/week (online articles don't count)
• Travel out west in the USA to experience some rugged terrain
• Find a good way to give back to my community
• Hopefully, hopefully finish building my house 🤞