A few of my favorites from 2010
- New movies: Inception, Ghost Writer, 500 Days of Summer, Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Re-watched movies: About a Boy, Groundhog Day
- Books: The Omnivore's Dilemma; The Happiness Hypothesis; Eat, Pray, Love; The Hunger Games trilogy; Guns, Germs, & Steel
- Album: The Pursuit
- Artist: Feist
- Most memorable food: Liberty Market's White Pizza
- Once in a lifetime event: Grandpa Ray's funeral
- Favorite person: Becky (for the 15th consecutive year)
- Coolest event: Jason winning an Emmy
- The Rogue Dude Award goes to: Joel Salatin
- Best personal finance decisions: switching from Dish to Netflix, from Qwest to Ooma, buying rental property
- Favorite stocks: Netflix, Apple, Amazon
- Favorite device: iPhone
- Favorite new services: Netflix, Amazon Prime
- Most visited websites: Wikipedia, Yahoo Finance, Mint, Pandora, Facebook, Google Reader, Gmail, Amazon, Bing Weather
- Best vacation: Caribbean cruise
- Most interesting overheard words: solipsism, consanguinity, automagically, vituperative, pickwickean
- Best work decisions:
- Changing Outlook to open to my calendar instead of my inbox (starting my day with my agenda instead of other people's)
- Using automatic Rules in Outlook and Gmail to reduce email burden
- Signing out of MS Communicator (incoming interruptions outnumbered outgoing messages 10:1)
- Bringing in a mini fridge
- Most thought provoking ideas:
- Fowler's Stages of Faith
- Chapter 9 of The Happiness Hypothesis
- Guns, Germs, & Steel: the troubling lack of large herbivorous domesticated mammals in pre-Columbian North and South America
- Most memorable TED Talks:
- Hans Rosling on Asia's rise (I changed my entire investment strategy based on this presentation)
- Elizabeth Gilbert on creativity
- Tim Ferris on swimming
- Favorite new productivity tools:
- Favorite article: The curious case of Hollywood's White Whale (...living life on your own terms)
- Favorite Christmas gift: a thing of beauty
