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 
My 2026 New Years resolutions are as follows:
Place a higher priority in overall nutrition.
Continue improving upon my daily exercise routines (i.e. running, HIIT, functional strength training, and so on).
Build some useful iOS app(s) to assist me in managing my overall nutrition and exercise goals.
Complete the Test-Driven Development Phoenix book.
Complete the Testing LiveView course.
Migrate relevant projects from Phoenix 1.7 to Phoenix 1.8.
Dig more into leveraging Rust.
Thank you for bringing up this topic. Interesting discussion.
For several years, I never made new year resolutions. I felt that if I made resolutions and didn’t follow through on them, I would feel like a failure and perhaps even feel depressed about failing to fulfill some kind of life mission.
What I do is the opposite. I record what I’ve done over the past year. On a smaller scale, I evaluate and record my daily activities. I create a daily check-ins in my personal Basecamp and I’ll write down what I did that day and what I want to do next day.
I usually make a short-term strategic plan (around six weeks) for the things I plan to do. If I have time, I’ll create a long-term dream plan.
I find this kind of pattern more calming. But on the other hand, it also gives me direction for what I want to do.
For example, after a 10-year coding hiatus (in the sense of seriously building apps)—I did other things :)—over the past three months I’ve wanted to intensively learn Elixir/Phoenix. I’m grateful to have been able to do so.
