Personal #quandary: I have a strong desire to create something, but I’m lacking the initiative.
— Bill Lee (@wrlee) April 12, 2014
I have more personal projects in mind than I have taken the time to start. Too many Internet distractions, TV distractions, and general malaise. When my tweet (above) landed on my Facebook timeline, my friends were compelled to respond, which motivated me to, at least, write this list down (the first step to success—well, steps 3 and 5 according to “How to Plan for a Successful Future“).
- Build a quad+ copter with a video camera.
- Build a “3D-printer”
- Build an Arduino or Raspberry Pi project—which may be used for…
- Design and build a multi-axis desktop NC machine (with the tools from the first two projects).
- Build a Hackintosh.
- Teach Lightroom classes.
- Figure out what direction to take my photography.
- Take typography classes (then graphics and design classes).
- Learn to fly.
- Join a volleyball or soccer team.
- Finish most of the blog posts that are sitting as drafts, waiting to be finished and published.
- Figure out what my “next big thing” will be.
- Go somewhere interesting within the next 9 months.
- Figure out what I want to do when I grow up.
As usual, there are the usual software projects that I never get around to:
- Get my blogs organized and cleaned up.
- Turn my various WordPress blogs into “multi-site” blogs so that they can share content.
- Figure out why the blog websites are so slow.
- Clean up the themes of my blogs.
- Build a WordPress theme.
- Rebuild the landing page of my photography blog.
- Get Node.js up and running so I can do something interesting with that.
- Build front-end web apps with Ember, jQuery, Backbone, Less, etc. web mechanisms.
- Build a Windows Phone product.
- Get some OSX products out there.
- Get back to iOS programming.
…and blog about all this stuff.