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by tachion 3469 days ago
I applaud making goals and reaching them, but when I see 'Learn ELM' (or, in fact, 'Learn X') that was marked as completed after 2 days it makes me wonder if it shouldn't be, in reality something like 'Play with X'. I've been doing some things from that list for quite a while, some of them even for years and I still am not sure if I'd dare to say that I've 'Learned X'.
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That was a 2016 goal that I backdated (I had the goal months ago, but only just recorded it, and immediately marked as 'done'). To get a feel for how it will work going forward to 2017.

Perhaps I should make the goals more concrete than "learn". As an example: build a form to do X in Elm and deploy to production. Agree that learning is an ongoing, and never ending goal.

I dont think it's hard to learn a language. Perl for example. But its hard to master it. I think there is a big difference.