Lazy Resolutions

Lazy evaluation appealed to me when I first learned about it in grad school. I wondered if there were other ways to be productively lazy, and imagined researching the possibility. But somehow I never got around to it. I have, though, mastered Lazy Resolutions.

Years of experience have taught me that you should only make New Year's resolutions that would be hard to break. Otherwise the odds are either you'll disappoint yourself or you'll do things that seemed smart at the time but turn out to be dumb. Here are a few carefully selected resolutions that I expect to have little trouble keeping in 2007:

Use more open-source code in my work.

Not accept any back-dated stock options.

Find an excuse to go to San Francisco.

Remove that old MSJVM before it EOLs on December 31, 2007.

Change my clocks to deal with Daylight Savings Time.

Change my socks daily.

Decide whether or not to use Google's SOAP search API.

Stay up to date on developments in Java.

Not stay the course.

Posted by Mike Swaine at 02:03 PM  Permalink