stilicho




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  1. 1. Read more books
    10,688 people
  2. 2. Learn Ruby
    1,845 people
  3. 3. Be more successful than my parents
    4 people
  4. 4. Start my own business
    8,289 people
  5. 5. spend an entire day watching the extended version of all three Lord of the Rings movies back-to-back-to-back
    1,103 people
  6. 6. stop wasting time
    3,486 people
  7. 7. get an ipod
    1,238 people
  8. 8. stop repeating my parents' mistakes
    1 person
  9. 9. Be myself
    1,705 people
  10. 10. finish projects
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  11. 11. implement GTD
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  12. 12. get laid
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  13. 13. Write an app as cool as 43things.
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  14. 14. get a Mac mini
    99 people
  15. 15. get a laptop
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  16. 16. live simply
    3,208 people
  17. 17. Visit Australia
    2,376 people
  18. 18. bootstrap my business
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  19. 19. visit New Zealand
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  20. 20. attend Coachella
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  21. 21. lose weight
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  22. 22. follow my bliss
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  23. 23. Declutter for one hour every day
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  24. 24. be a good friend
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    902 people
  25. 25. Move to Chicago
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    359 people
  26. 26. finish my degree
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  27. 27. get my blog noticed
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    7 people
  28. 28. dance naked and play the bongo drums
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    1 person
  29. 29. exercise more
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  30. 30. Fix my teeth
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    496 people
  31. 31. know when to walk away
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    45 people
  32. 32. Explore how 43 things can be a social change tool
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  33. 33. make someone happy
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    657 people
  34. 34. habitually hand out my business cards
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  35. 35. build my personal brand
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    3 people
  36. 36. travel the world
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    17,823 people
  37. 37. Beat my depression
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    1,647 people
  38. 38. Get a tattoo
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    19,612 people
  39. 39. discover new music
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    266 people
Recent entries
Move to Chicago
Back to Chicago! 4 years ago

I was born in Chicago. I grew up in Wisconsin. I finally moved to Chicago as an adult and spent several years there working in various tech support positions, then tried to make a go as a freelancer after the crash seemed to dry up my consulting jobs. I’ve been stuck in Wisconsin for a while, back “home”, but I really feel like Chicago is the home where I was meant to be, and the things that I didn’t do enough of while I was there just itch under my skin.



discover new music
So far, so very good. 4 years ago

I’m doing quite well with this goal. I was never very good at discovering new music for myself in the past; I tended to be conservative about what I decided to like and reluctant to go beyond a few well-trod paths. Oh, I wasn’t some mindless Top 40 slave; I carefully chose things in a certain range of critical acceptance. I ended up with a passel of people I liked that served me well enough but failed to challenge or excite me, and kept me out of the social aspects of music, such as going to concerts and shows and talking about new music.

I’ll come back to this and detail some of the steps I’ve been taking, but in essence I’ve been playing with music recommendation services and internet radio, and ripping all my music into iTunes so I can listen to it at will, which has given me more freedom and more interest in music than I have ever had. And I’m 41!



get my blog noticed
... again. 4 years ago

My old blog was just outside the A-list. Hey, I began it in 1999, when there were somewhere between 50 and 100 sites calling themselves weblogs.

This time out, my blog is my business card. I need to build mindshare and goodwill before I get going; I may need help and advice, and the best way to get that is to have it freely given. Blogging may be a completely different animal today, but there’s still a limited number of people working in the business and it’s clearly the communication and community tool of choice.



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