k. rodman mannix

2021 by the numbers

2021-04-03

  • Fitness
    • Run 500 miles (159.8 miles ran)
    • Run a half-marathon (completed 2021-03-21)
      • Do an overnight cycling trip (not scheduled)
      • Complete 200 consecutive pushups (I have not been doing a good job at this. I think I could do ~45 consectutively right now)
    • Reach 155 lbs (165 lbs currently)
  • Learning
    • Read 27 books (11 books read)
    • Watch 15 movies (12 movies watched)
    • Listen to 60 albums (19 albums listened to)
    • Reach a streak of 150 days on Duolingo (84 day streak)
    • Start and maintain “tech guide” (started, but haven’t added a ton to yet)
      • This is a little vague, but slightly on purpose. Essentially, I want to keep track of basic elements of software engineering, tradeoffs between common decisions, etc. Each time I spend brain power making a decision of researching something, it should go into this guide for easy access later
    • Complete Functional Programming in Scala (halfway through on this)
      • Complete all examples, share on GitHub
    • Complete Learning the bash Shell (not yet started)
      • Complete all examples, share on GitHub
    • Get AWS Developer certification (not yet scheduled)
  • Improving
    • 5 toastmasters speeches (0 completed)
    • Write for 3,120 minutes (768 minutes)
      • This is 20 minutes, 3x a week
    • Write 36 blog posts (8 blog posts so far)
      • Write “5 year career” blog post (in progress)
      • Write “Time tracking” blog post (not started)
    • Improve my touch typing from 222 to 280 CPM (characters per minute) (currently at 265 CPM)
      • Based on this site
      • My hunt-and-peck typing score is 373 CPM (average of three tries), my current touch typing is 222 CPM (average of three tries)
      • 280 is 75% of my hunt-and-peck score
  • Interests
    • Make 52 batches of ice cream (9 batches)
    • Spend 7,300 minutes on side projects (1,534 minutes)
      • This is 20 minutes for 365 days
    • Submit at least 1 crossword to the NYT crossword (not started)
    • 1600 peak score on lichess (currently 1477)
  • Personal
    • At least 40 hours of community service
    • At least 31 days without alcohol (completed in January)
    • At least 30 days without Twitter (completed in January)
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