Punk Rock OR’s New Year’s Resolutions for 2019

I did pretty well with the New Year’s resolutions I made last year.

My New Year’s resolutions this year are:

1. Unsubscribe, don’t just delete academic spam emails
2. Blog more frequently about my research.
3. Continue to say no more often to carve out more time for research that is free from email, twitter, and other distractions.
4. Write and edit my writing every day, even if only for a few minutes (I did really well at this last year and need to keep the momentum).
5. Cook meals from scratch more often.
6. Run the Boston marathon! Last year’s resolution was to qualify and I achieved this goal 🙂

Last year, one of my goals was to read more popular science books. I read

• The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
• I Contain Multitudes
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
• Why We Sleep
• Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance (my favorite from the year)
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
• Forgetfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (my second favorite)

A couple of Punk Rock OR posts deal with setting goals and establishing good habits.

I’ve received a lot of positive feedback on my recent blog post about achieving work life balance.