Ah nice one Jay! And I wonder if we can help find a functional programming expert to read the book and share their thoughts from a functional programming perspective with a view to the comments helping you with such a post or collaborating with you on one.
Leave it with me and I’ll look into this once our 2021 Update is done 
I too wanted to take a commitment with reading. There’s no way I’d win against laziness.
Lots. But the tech learning based one is- I am primarily focusing on RDBMS this year. In particular Postgresql, focusing on internals and optimization techniques/patterns. As side effect learning C and some cool algorithms in the process.
Another worth mentioning would be baking. I never baked but wish to get into it this year.
To learn EventSourcing this year 
