2020 Goals?

[bryanbrutherford]

I find myself saying “wherever you go, there you are” a lot lately…

This reminded me of a similar (?) line from the movie “Fear of a Black Hat”… “Because when you take the bus… you GET there.”

both inspiring, both great front-men, both highly quotable.
my goal in 2020 is to be more like both of them.

[iab]

Less time at work, more time with family and friends.

Just got back from the cabin for an XY new year. Going to Pasadena first weekend of Feb. for a bike ride with friends and visiting Caltech with the boy. March is hopefully a ride in Milan, visiting Carnegie Mellon & UNC. I figure Stanford also around this time. April I host a larger get-together. May my friend has a thing in the NC mountains. June my oldest and I do a startup, probably via Etsy. Second half - tbd.

But at work - Determine how to make EMEA a $50MM business in 5 years.

Except for the work thing, I failed miserably.

[slippyfish]

A 2021 goal is to clean out all of the pre-2020 pronouncements, research papers, white papers, presentations… about “THE FUTURE OF THE DESIGN INDUSTRY” or “THE FUTURE OF FITNESS” or “THE FUTURE OF WHAT-EVS” as they are now wrong.

[NURB]

Man thanks for bumping this one…

[ralphzoontjens]

My goals for 2020 so far:

• Finding either more hourly work or an employeeship in actual industrial design rather than my endless dabbling in side-projects (graphic, administrative, 3d printing, generative design)
• Finding a launching customer for our startup ShapeWizard, www.shapewizard.nl and bringing the business to operational status
• Picking up an exercise routine (running), a 10k every week
• Having a baby (due date April 22nd)
• Completing our new home (deadline mid-July)
• Self-publishing a book (almost done)
• Fixing my two Chinese-brand 3D printers (short-term goal)
• Reading 15 books

Wow, I still didn’t fix those printers. Only one is operational and I instead got two new ones.
And that’s a symbol for the rest of the goals.
Many failed for me. The house and book came out nice though. The baby too, by the way Oliver just turned one, is walking, and seems to love everything design although he also likes checking people’s teeth.
Hopping onto the kindness and humor bandwagon.