I'm doing 40 things
Totally changes TV
3 years ago
I wasn’t a big TV person, but my home-built PVR crashed just before the move, and I can no longer watch “regular” TV. It was a pain to build my own (on the cheap) but really well worth it.
Alex Halavais's Life List
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1. become better at small-talk
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2. get tenure
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3. get in shape
9,366 people -
4. get out of debt
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5. learn to sail
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6. Contact Juggle
27 people -
7. learn to weld
427 people -
8. learn to SCUBA dive
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9. Learn to fly
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10. visit Costa Rica
98 people -
11. Travel Europe.
658 people -
12. learn to kitesurf
96 people -
13. start a company
629 people -
14. learn chinese
2,369 people -
15. take piano lessons again
104 people -
16. defeat gravity
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17. become a Fulbright scholar
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18. kaizen
7 people -
19. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
5,507 people -
20. Visit India
884 people -
21. Learn to fly a helicopter
272 people -
22. design my own clothes
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23. have normal sleep hours
720 people -
24. get stuff done
6 people -
25. Design and build my own house
1,496 people -
26. learn to snowboard
2,445 people -
27. Write a science fiction or fantasy novel
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28. learn how to prepare 10 excellent meals
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29. design and build a car
186 people -
30. buy an island
216 people -
31. get rid of 2 things for every 1 new thing
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32. compete again in judo
4 people -
33. start a school
101 people -
34. get corrective eye surgery or lasik
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35. live for the moment most moments
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36. make some good friends
10 people -
37. be a cool dad
5 people -
38. Go Paperless
25 people -
39. see Tom Waits perform live
65 people -
40. learn watchmaking
4 people
Recent entries
2 weeks and counting
4 years ago
OK, finally made the move. At this point, if I could break my lease without anyone breaking my legs, I think I could still say I lived in New York, if only for a while.
So far, so good. Though I totally get New Yorkers complaints (and there are many). It’s cool, but it’s also hard to forget that you could have a much nicer place for the same amount of money almost anywhere in the US. But I love being able to walk downstairs and be in the city (if a little too far uptown).
Get off the beaten track
4 years ago
Take some time to walk or drive outside of the major areas. Well worth it.
