New Year's Resolutions and Goals

Here are this year's technical/career goals & resolutions. Most of these are general and many encompass specific current and forward looking work projects. Others are just motivational resolutions.

Goals and Resolutions:

• Turn in Dissertation. It's 75% complete and the rest is all typewriter work. Be done.
  
• Be a better Numerati. The point of modeling is to predict... so this goal is a lifelong career goal with a new label.
• Practice at Done and Get Things Smart and Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
  
• Make damn sure that OthersOnline.com doesn't have any Fail Whale events (technical or business).
  
• Read more tech (academic, business and research blogs) - Seed and water the creative juices.
• Economy willing, hire a full-time minion.
• See if I can practice some 'startup karma' (hat tip Todd Sawicki) for other startups.
  

Specific items:

• Suck down more 'computational advertising' research and write some myself.
• Cherry pick new Semantic techniques from the rat's nets of the Semantic Web.
• NLP and Extraction
• Sharpen skills from classic modeling/filtering/sampling methods.
• Column DBs
• Modern Map-Reduce
• More Scalability
• Data mining from VLDB
  
• Contribute to open source projects again
• File patent(s) and publish a paper(s)
• Clean the Garage
  

Thank heavens I have all year. This is really a post that should evolve all year.. why can't some blog posts be Wiki-like and not so time ordered? I reserve the right to violate blog-etiquette laws and edit this post.

New Year's Resolutions - Blog more

New Years resolution - blog more. I've been very busy doing cool stuff at Others Online and in the process developed some tunnel vision to stay on task.

Here's to hoping that more blogging will cause me to see things in a different light more easily as well as get me more in 'writing mode' to finish the PhD before summer 2009.

Twittering has replaced blogging as my outlet for the second half of the year.. yet the 140 char format isn't much good for a personal musing and research blog.