Matt Pelletier




I'm doing 15 things
 

Matt Pelletier's Life List

  1. 1. speak fluent Chinese
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    55 people
  2. 2. learn Mandarin
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  3. 3. pay off my student loans
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  4. 4. Become a better programmer
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  5. 5. master ruby
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  6. 6. master ruby on rails
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  7. 7. improve the flow of my chi
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  8. 8. Watch a space shuttle launch
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  9. 9. learn Dvorak keyboard
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  10. 10. Learn how to remember peoples' names
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  11. 11. speak at RubyConf
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  12. 12. travel around the world
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  13. 13. make my own clothes
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  14. 14. become huge in japan
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  15. 15. be huge in Japan
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Recent entries
learn to use the dvorak layout
Not as tough as you think 2 years ago

After touch-typing in QWERTY for years, I assumed it would be tough to start rethinking about the keys. But after only a few days of playing around with lessons I’m already doing 15wpm. Too slow to be useful, but certainly faster than I expected.



 

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