I retired yesterday: my list of things to do in retirement

What does an intelligent person do in retirement? That is a question of individual tastes but I will share my list of 20 things.

Yesterday was my last day working on a recommendation model at Babylist. Babylist is a great company to work for but I decided to retire in order to spend more time helping my wife who now has chronic health problems. When I write books, my wife enjoys editing my work so we will keep doing that. I also plan on being a gentleman computer scientist by working on open source deep learning applications and semantic web/linked data tools and applications.

I may end up not doing all of these things, but generally I plan on spending more time on current interests and starting some new hobbies:

Retirement Activities

• Join an Internet Chess club **DONE**

• Get a fishing license

• Video Games

• Improve my cooking/recipe web site

• Reading

• Release new editions for my 3 most popular eBooks

• Practice guitar, Native American Flute, and didgeridoo

• Eco-box vegetable garden

• Set up my model trains

• Play online Go. **DONE** online-go.com

• Learn to use the Ham radio (listen only, no license) that my son in law Josh gave me

• Photography

• Wednesday and Saturday morning bird watching tours at Red Rock State Park

• Kayaking

• Take more road trips with Carol and friends

• Using my new meat smoker

• Hiking with my friends

• Marksmanship: spend more time at the shooting range (I own a 22 caliber target pistol)

• Meditation

• Start taking flying lessons again

I may not do all of these activities but I found it useful to put some thought into what I want to now spend my time on.