New Year’s resolutions from the Brooklyn tech scene

It’s that time of year for making wild promises to yourself.
We scanned Twitter for New Year’s resolutions for 2015 (and reports on resolutions from 2014). Here’s some of the more interesting items we found from members of the local innovation economy:

Resolution: ask more questions.

— DUMBO Startup Lab (@DUMBOStartupLab) January 2, 2015

https://twitter.com/itgetsbedder/status/550550520407269376
https://twitter.com/BookishMatt/status/550671682760089600
https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow/status/550506694649053184

My 2014 resolution was to learn to cook. And I actually did, a little bit! And I kinda like it sometimes. http://t.co/aFjI1eCV7P

— Alyssa Galella (@woodlandalyssa) December 31, 2014

2015 and beyond motto: "Less comparing, criticizing, and consuming; more creating, learning, and living." #NewYearsResolution

— Nicole Raymondi (@NicoleRaymondi) January 2, 2015

Here’s a hot tip: If you really want to meet a goal, there’s a good argument to be made that you shouldn’t tell anyone about it. That said, local curator of important thinking on creativity, Maria Popova, culled a list of lists of resolutions from important thinkers and doers.

Need New Year’s Resolution ideas? Borrow worthy ones from Susan Sontag, Jonathan Swift, Marilyn Monroe, Woody Guthrie http://t.co/nlSkwdFZAb

— Maria Popova (@brainpicker) January 1, 2015

By the way, the above tweets were collected from this handy Twitter list of people who work in tech in the County of Kings.