I'm doing 40 things
The RSpec Book
4 months ago
I just picked up a beta copy of Pragmatic Programmers’ The RSpec Book, so I’m ready to get started on this one.
Nhoj's Life List
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1. raise happy, healthy children
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2. be a better husband
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3. build an emergency savings account
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4. Finish Introduction to Algorithms
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5. learn Spanish
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6. master the guitar
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7. learn Python
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8. treat my GERD
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9. master Rails
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10. Learn to solder
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11. learn bike repair
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12. make a smaller ecological footprint
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13. Become a better programmer
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14. Contribute to an open source software project
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15. be a scientist
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16. learn to garden
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17. run my house on solar power
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18. spend less money
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19. conserve energy
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20. plan for the future with my friends and family
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21. Get better at chess
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22. Learn how to play bridge
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23. Learn Arabic
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24. start a business
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25. be prepared
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26. take better pictures
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27. be in a rock band
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28. relearn the piano
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29. upgrade my ham license
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30. drink less coffee
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31. NERT training
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32. Replace my vague goals with quantifiable ones
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33. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
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34. purge excess stuff
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35. finish HTDP
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36. Do NaNoWriMo
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37. write an iphone app
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38. learn JavaScript
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39. learn OpenCL
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40. Design and build a beer brewing robot
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And I'll do it, too!
15 months ago
I’ll do it, even if I have to get on the Supreme Court and vote for him myself!
It's cool, but not my thing
18 months ago
ZTD is sort of a modified, simplified GTD. The ebook has some excellent points, but it’s not really my style. Some people find GTD unstructured, particularly in the “doing” phase. For those people, ZTD is probably better. Also, ZTD would be good for those who find GTD just a little too much to tackle at once. In ZTD, you phase it in over a period of months, one habit at a time.
