Ask HN: What are the things you haven't accomplished for 2024?

by informal007 on 11/15/2024, 9:30:32 AM with 20 comments
With only a month and a half left in 2024, take a moment to review your annual plan and identify what’s still incomplete. Let’s work on finishing them!

As for me:

1. Fitness progress hasn’t been great.

2. Haven’t met my reading target for books.

Keep going!!

  • by sk11001 on 11/15/2024, 11:33:27 AM

    Getting a new job - changing priorities, difficult market, losing motivation to keep searching.

    Did well on health goals though.

  • by Quinzel on 11/17/2024, 10:00:17 AM

    1. Changing careers - though I’m still steadily working towards the new chosen career path by completing all the academic/study requirements, but I’m increasingly ready to throw in the towel with the old career, but now is not quite the right time, just gotta hang in there for another year or so.

  • by closetkantian on 11/16/2024, 2:33:57 PM

    1. Same with fitness. Need to start up again, remembering that something is better than nothing.

    2. Need a hard deadline to finish writing my book. It's dragged on too long. I can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

    3. Need to make sure to stay consistent with studying Chinese. It's easy to slip.

    4. Cut back on drinking.

  • by meiraleal on 11/15/2024, 8:43:51 PM

    Launching my side project. At least I got in better shape (and I'm happier for that than launching a side project)

  • by trumbitta2 on 11/15/2024, 4:41:25 PM

    I don't necessarily like to focus on what I didn't do and I wanted to, but:

      - get fit (did lose 10kg of 15 tho)
  - complete the first draft of my debut novel

  • by notesinthefield on 11/15/2024, 10:03:26 PM

    Learning to swim : turns out its difficult to find an instructor if youre over the age of 10. I desperately want to learn so I can paddleboard and kayak with my partner.

  • by acquiremoney on 11/15/2024, 4:28:16 PM

    For me its just work work 50-60 hours. I want to get healthy spend more time with my family and on hobbies. Alas i cannot. Hopefully in 2025.

  • by mikewarot on 11/15/2024, 2:15:18 PM

    I haven't made a BitGrid ASIC, Compiler, debugger, nor characterized it's efficiency.

    Haven't started using Genode as my daily driver.

  • by throwaway519 on 11/15/2024, 3:34:36 PM

    I have not finished rewriting my Python `learning CMS' in Go.

    But that's OK, I'm on the way to learning Go.

  • by vdvsvwvwvwvwv on 11/15/2024, 11:16:59 AM

    Still want to make something with an rpi and 3d printer. There is time!

  • by chistev on 11/15/2024, 1:10:56 PM

    Still haven't made my first thousand dollars.

  • by CM30 on 11/17/2024, 1:15:12 PM

    Haven't finished my side projects. Have a bunch of things in progress (apps, games, videos, etc) that I expected would be done by the end of the year (or close to done), but which are still far from the finish line.

    Part of this is because of depression, part of this is because of the job searching grind, and part of this is because at least a few things I'm reliant on for these projects are being handled by someone else and they've only got so many hours in the day.

    But yeah, they'll be done someday. Hopefully by the end of this year or the next.

  • by hnthrowaway0328 on 11/15/2024, 5:22:35 PM

    Still haven't figured out what I truly love at age 40+. Guess it's a life long mission. Maybe that's what I truly love to do -- to figure out what I truly love to do.

    How pathetic.