2020 Resolutions + a 2019 Year in Review

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2019 Year in Review

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Matcha, turmeric, and seltzers, oh my! Halfway through the year, I read about the anti-inflammatory benefits of matcha and turmeric and I have been hooked ever since. I take turmeric almost daily and matcha at least once a week. If you have a headache or if you are just trying to take better care of yourself, give one or both of them a try and see how you feel. Matcha, in particular, has a ton of purported benefits. I have to give James Beshara full credit for my discovery of matcha and turmeric as he discussed them extensively in his great podcast Below the Line. The other thing I have discovered and have since obsessed with in 2019 is Kroger® Fizz & Co. Root Beer Flavored Seltzer Water. I stopped drinking sodas about 6 years now cold turkey. I found for me to quit, I had to substitute sodas with something similar so I started drinking carbonated water instead. I'm not used to the sugars in soda so the flavored waters taste great and it almost tastes like one.

A lot of my time spent in 2019 was working on side projects. I attended and graduated from YC's Startup School. The project I created during the course is RemindBrain.com a website that "helps you become more happy, healthy, and successful by reminding you of the things you need to do." I attended weekly video sessions with other founders where we presented what we were working on, challenges we were having, as well as giving each other advice. I know for about two months straight there wasn't a night I didn't spend at least an hour on it. I received some great feedback and learned a lot of valuable takeaways as a result of attending. I learned the fear of embarrassment is a powerful motivator for me. I also created a few things like a simple countdown calculator for various things, a sticky notes app, a one-screen desktop-only Phaser.io game, and more.

2020 Resolutions

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• I'd love to get another family trip scheduled. The Turks and Caicos Islands are calling to me. :)
• Create a failure resume
• Play around with Stripe
• Learn Laravel
• I've been drafting a Career Advice Book. A great goal for 2020 is to have a first draft created.

Some Favorite 2019 Tweets

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Similar to blogging, I have been tweeting less and less every year (source) instead opting to work on side projects. Below are some of my tweets from 2019 you might enjoy in case you missed them.

Some Favorite 2019 Videos

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When I'm not listening to podcasts or reading articles, I'm almost always watching something on YouTube. Below are some of my favorite videos I've watched or shared in 2019 in no particular order.

YouTube Subscriptions

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Below are some of the YouTube Channels I am currently subscribed to you might enjoy.

1. Sam Holmes Sailing
2. You Suck at Cooking
3. Y Combinator
4. Indigo Traveler
5. Ireland Boys
6. Linus Tech Tips
7. One Bite Pizza Reviews
8. Casey Neistat
9. Hoppier Days
10. Ryan Serhant
11. Kara and Nate
12. Jablinkski Games
13. TechLead
14. Yes Theory
15. Mr. Beast
16. Marques Brownlee

Favorite 2019 Podcast Episodes

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I've been obsessed with podcasts for years, especially given the fact that I have had some pretty lengthy commutes. 2019 was no exception and I have listened to hundreds of podcasts over the last year. Below are some of my favorite episodes in no particular order.

1. Finding Fred Episode 4
2. The Knowledge Project - #50 Inventing the Future with Josh Wolfe
3. Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman - To scale, you must master the skill of storytelling w/Charity: Water’s Scott Harrison
4. Reply-All #132 - Negative Mount Pleasant
5. Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman - LIVE! All founders have a Trojan Horse w/Robert F. Smith
6. The Tim Ferriss Show - Lessons from a Trillion-Dollar Coach (#367)
7. Without Fail - Bringing Brands Back to Life
8. The Tim Ferriss Show - Adam Grant — The Man Who Does Everything (#399)
9. The Tim Ferriss Show - The Random Show — On Fasting, Forest Bathing, How to Say NO, Rebooting the Self, and Much More (#391)

Favorite 2019 Articles

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My kids give me a pretty hard time for not reading a lot of books. Instead, I have always opted to consume thousands of articles a year. Below are the articles I especially enjoyed in no particular order.

1. The Value of Grey Thinking
2. Where Are You Still Using Single-Ply?
3. Seafood May Be Gone by 2048, Study Says
4. What Are the Most Valuable Things Everyone Should Know?
5. Users don't care if you are the best.
6. Ray Dalio Is Building a Baseball Card Collection
7. 'Healthiest hearts in the world' found
8. Invent More, Toil Less
9. How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger
10. How To Be Successful
11. Why NASA Converted Its Lessons Learned Database into a Knowledge Graph
12. Visit the charming Dutch village where cars aren't allowed