1. Don’t talk anyone out of their assumptions about my talent level, fitness, etc.

2. Immediately reply to all emails that require less than 2 minutes to write (once my email script downloads them).

3. Make $1,000 selling things online

4. Maximize serendipitous opportunities – send low-cost emails, meet people, get people in my corner.

5. Spend more money

6. Go to Joshua Tree

Some tools I used for the first time/got good at using over winter break

Running apps with Flask
Jinja templating
Vim
Cron jobs
Parsing XML with etree
Photoshop
Mercurial
One-click deploys with Fabric and Mercurial
UNIX/Bash scripting
Google Apps
Writing Chrome extensions
Mental math (don’t ask)

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