I'm doing 42 things
This item creates a dangerous paradox
4 years ago
What are you supposed to do with this goal when you reach 43 items? You can’t leave it on your list as unfinished, but if you mark it as finished, you suddenly have only 42 items.
Jesse Ruderman's Life List
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1. Find new (to me) music I love
3 entries . 5 cheers102 people -
2. re-learn how to play the piano
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3. play more ddr
1 entry . 4 cheers32 people -
4. play tennis again
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5. lose weight
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6. Read all the books in my "must read" pile
3 cheers1,103 people -
7. keep in better touch with friends & family
1 cheer269 people -
8. Learn to say no
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9. Make and manage promises like my life depends on it
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10. Find a balance between the things I want to do and the things I need to do
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11. have more friends
809 people -
12. learn to drive
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13. learn how to cook
2 cheers1,489 people -
14. have a girlfriend
2 cheers303 people -
15. Cut down on porn
1 entry5 people -
16. not have any secrets
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17. Get more sleep
4,123 people -
18. Be more efficient when working
598 people -
19. stop procrastinating
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20. stop wasting time
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21. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
1 cheer5,503 people -
22. Return phone messages & emails in a timely fashion
1 cheer57 people -
23. Finish what I start
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24. Finish designing that website
67 people -
25. Clean up my computer's desktop
1 cheer145 people -
26. find work I'm passionate about
2 cheers960 people -
27. read Garey and Johnson
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28. publish something in a respectable journal, magazine, or edited website
412 people -
29. Spread firefox
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30. Convert all of my friends to Firefox
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31. witness the end of IE
740 people -
32. make better backups
44 people -
33. Start using SVN.
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34. use more open-source software
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35. work for google
3 cheers393 people -
36. blog more often
2 entries . 2 cheers393 people -
37. Watch a space shuttle launch
957 people -
38. visit New Zealand
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39. start my own religion
2 cheers81 people -
40. Steal an iPod
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41. Fix 43 Firefox bugs in 43 days
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42. Help test Tootietails: the next new thing from The Robot Co-op
180 people
Recent entries
18 posts in one week
4 years ago
18 posts between April 29th and May 5th! I blogged about user scripts, promoted DreamHost, and answered several “Ask Jesse” questions.
Untitled
4 years ago
I wrote a Greasemonkey script to make it easier to rearrange my 43 Things. I grouped the items into categories like “personal” and “geeky” rather than ranking them by importance.
