Isn’t That Just New Years’ Resolutions? (AD S2E9)

Rough draft completed, with a total of 51,434 words. However, it is very, very rough — I will take November to basically completely rewrite it. And then, then, I will let people see it.

And then, if they like it, I guess querying begins 🙃

Very short issue this week — I just played tennis for the first time in a decade and then walked a third of the way across San Francisco, so needless to say I’m a bit tired 🙂

Personal KRs

Something I’ve tried this year 11 Inspired partly by Sherry and partly by the KRs we set for our team at work. is to set personal goals for the year. “Isn’t that just New Years’ resolutions?” you might ask, which is fair. The difference here is that I’m setting explicit pass/fail goals with quantitative measurements to track them. For instance, I had a goal to “finish a rough draft of a novel of >50,000 words”, which I can now go check off.

The real goal is to encourage new habits, since I’m a big believer in the power of habit — do something everyday for two weeks, and you’ll do it every day for the rest of your life 🙂 Another nice thing, though, is that I’ll be able to use it as feedback — clearly, since I finished one rough draft of a novel, that’s something I value, but I highly doubt I’ll finish working through Crafting Interpreters (I didn’t even start!), so maybe I don’t care about programming languages as much as I thought.

Anyway, this kind of goal-setting is common in corporate settings, but it seems surprisingly rare in personal settings — or maybe I just don’t pay enough attention 🤷‍♀️

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