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new years resolutions
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title: "New Year's Resolutions"
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date: 2023-12-31
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<XeblogVideo path="video/2023/new-years-resolution" />
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Hi, it's Xe. At the time of recording, it's 11.30pm on New Year's
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Eve, and I just wanted to record something about New Year's
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resolutions and specifically what mine is for the next year.
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Over the last year, my New Year's resolution could be summed up in,
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like, a couple words. Get over my fear of public speaking. Get over my
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fear of being a jackass on stage and talking about things that are
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funny, engaging in ways that teach people things fundamental about
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computer science.
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I am fairly confident to say that I have made a huge impact on that,
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if not basically gotten over the most of it, and the rest of it is
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really just, like, smoothing out the logistics of actually doing
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things, actually recording things, all of that.
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I think I know what my resolution for 2023 is going to be.
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Historically, I've been kind of afraid of doing video for my blog, I'm
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afraid of video because of how permanent it is, how much effort it is
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to change things. With blog posts you edit a couple words here and
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there, and then bam, your message is completely different.
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But video has a lot more intention behind it. It has a lot more
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editing. It has a lot more steps.
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I want to get over my fear of looking like a jackass on video. I'm
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going to work on that.
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And the way I'm going to work on that is by doing it, putting
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myself out there, being vulnerable, and just seeing what happens.
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It's kind of actually terrifying to make this kind of resolution out
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in front of a bunch of people, you know, in this sort of intimate face
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cam style. I usually use a v-tubing rig because, well, my hair is
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super greasy right now.
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This is totally unfiltered. I don't even have a script right now. I
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normally script basically everything that I do in video to an inch of
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my life. I script the hand gestures that I do.
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I want to change that. I want to be a bit more spontaneous. I want to
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basically just create for the love of creation.
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My resolution for this year is to put out a video once a month.
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Oh, and as an aside, to stop using GitHub Gists because there's a
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whole story there that I'm probably going to make the first video of
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the new year. It's got action, danger, and accidentally getting on the
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front page of Twitter by getting on my gist links tweeted by Elon
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Musk, then finding out that the GitHub Gists product has been
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effectively abandoned by the team because nobody got promoted working
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on it. So I had to delete the gist because at the time of me being
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unemployed, having a bunch of people on Twitter looking into my
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history probably wouldn't be for the best. You can understand, right?
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Thanks for sticking with me. Thanks for believing. And let's see if I
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can get this video out before New Year's.