I'm doing 33 things
...but if you talk about interesting things long enough and have interesting enough friends, they will come.
Chris Messina's Life List
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1. Attend the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
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2. see stonehenge
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3. play scrabble
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4. Take more pictures
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5. Start a company that survives longer than 2 years
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6. sing and play guitar at the same time and actually sound good
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7. get in shape
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8. rationalise my tags
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9. Build the Semantic Web
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10. Take over the internet
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11. Learn Ruby
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12. re-learn french
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13. have conversations late into the night with fascinating people
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14. go back to Paris
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15. backpack across europe
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16. travel to iceland
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17. synchronise a flock of sheep
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18. stop biting my nails
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19. Explore how 43 things can be a social change tool
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20. install a wiki
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21. help Mincui Sodas leverage technology
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22. make 43things open source
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23. set up SVN repository
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24. Get a digital SLR camera
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25. Help test Tootietails: the next new thing from The Robot Co-op
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26. exercise 3X a week
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27. change the world
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28. Add "Year in review" to CivicForge
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29. Create an open-source alternative to 43things
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30. stop procrastinating
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31. master CSS
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32. live in New York City
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33. be romantic everyday of my life
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Recent entries
First browsers, next the world!
Well ok ok, maybe not. But still, it seems a rather impactful thing to devote oneself to. And I’m learning quite a bit about this whole thing even if I don’t quite get it yet. Y’know, it’s definitely wise to have a good community if you’re going to try pulling something like this off!
