It’s a warm-ish Sunday evening in the East Bay. How are you?

I’ve said previously that I don’t do New Years’ Resolutions. There are a couple of reasons for this: one is bloody-minded non-conformism¹; the other, more defensible reason, is that studies show² that aiming for “targets”, especially aggressive ones set without experience, tend to lead to failure and frustration. I do, however, often set “intentions” or “focuses” - not benchmarks that I want to hit, but areas that I want to intentionally spend more energy on in the coming year.