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by perihelions 909 days ago
- Reading math textbooks effectively. Want to revisit postgraduate math, just as a goal in itself, with no specific endpoint; more productively this time around, with less yak-shaving and distraction. And, not just going through the motions of solving exercises, but getting better at thinking, formulating new ideas from scratch, and applying/translating things to computational software

- Profiling and optimizing software. To get better at using tools and efficient workflows, and to get better intuition, to be more efficient at finding low-hanging fruit

- In support of these goals: time management, and figuring how to live correctly, and avoid time-wasting neurotransmitter traps such as HN

- Skateboarding