apteryx

is making a big decision



I'm doing 29 things
 

apteryx's Life List

  1. 1. get my doctorate and become a professor
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    4 people
  2. 2. write some interesting books
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    1 person
  3. 3. make a web site that makes money
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    1 person
  4. 4. do something memorable every weekend
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    6 people
  5. 5. clear out my inbox
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    4 people
  6. 6. drink a basil-infused vodka
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    1 person
  7. 7. see the parrots
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    1 person
  8. 8. eat at Mi Lindo Peru
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    1 person
  9. 9. plan out my 10 weeks
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    1 person
  10. 10. generate all the order-9 graphs
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    1 person
  11. 11. be Malcolm Gladwell
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    1 person
  12. 12. play the most interesting move
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    2 people
  13. 13. Fall in real love: ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't live without each other love.
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    1,267 people
  14. 14. get married, stay married, and live happily ever after
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    1,848 people
  15. 15. be daring and passionate, to hell with the consequences
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    70 people
  16. 16. accept that people think I'm crazy
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    3 people
  17. 17. Do 100 sit-ups daily for 100 consecutive days
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    163 people
  18. 18. Learn how to banter
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    1 person
  19. 19. get my doctorate
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    239 people
  20. 20. do all the problems in Stewart's Calculus, chapter 10
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    1 person
  21. 21. draw a buffalee
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    4 people
  22. 22. cultivate a positive masculine style
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    1 person
  23. 23. meet 43 people noteworthy enough to have Wikipedia articles about them
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    1 person
  24. 24. make 1000 Wikipedia edits
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    1 person
  25. 25. hire a virtual assistant in India
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    1 person
  26. 26. get the Tamale Lady's phone number
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    1 person
  27. 27. eat like a grad student for a week
    1 person
  28. 28. get lots of people to pray for my dog, Numen
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    7 people
  29. 29. try a polyphasic sleep schedule
    1 person
Recent entries
get my doctorate and become a professor (read all 12 entries…)
Big decision in 12 hours 1 week ago

My feeling about whether to delay the Ph.D. a year to work on decisionero has been swaying back and forth every couple of days. So, I decided on a way to decide.

I figured out that the very last day when I could move to Indiana in time to get ready for the Fall semester is this Wednesday. So, I decided that however I feel at the exact moment of noon on Wednesday will determine the way that I go.

If at noon, I feel like doing math for a year, I’ll get in the car and start driving. If I want to do decisionero, I’ll email IU that I’m officially canceling. So, at that moment, I will take irreversible action and thereby seal the decision.


make a web site that makes money (read all 10 entries…)
$500 well spent 1 week ago

I decided that I could use more information about the web site in order to make my big decision, specifically some factual information about target markets, how to reach them, and why-or whether-it’s really in their interest to throw down some cash to use the site.

So, I threw down some cash of my own: $500 on a marketing consultant for a small feasibility study. She told me what sort of people and what sort of companies would find genuine value in paying for the software. She addressed my fears about starting this business, by telling me specific things I can do to address them. She told me the negatives and risks clearly and specifically. Bottom line, I got exactly the information I needed to make my big decision, with enough clarity and specificity to trigger my imagination and weigh what I’m up against.


make a web site that makes money (read all 10 entries…)
Exploring vs. arguing 1 week ago

I just posted a wiki page explaining the concept of the web site:

http://decisionero.com/decisionero/Exploring_vs._arguing


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