Giving up cooking dreams

I'm accepting that I don't have the time to invest into mastering culinary arts. I'm content with being able to cook enough to eat with a little variety. It'll be nice to develop a few specialty dishes that I can use for potlucks and dinners, but I have no intention of committing the time to become a Gordon Ramsey-level chef.

In addition, the number of dishes you know actually increases the total meals you can create by a combinatorial factor, rather than additive, because you can mix up which dishes go into a single meal!

Giving up machine shop dreams

As of today I'm content with not focusing my time on developing shop skills. I still enjoy playing around with making my own objects, but I decided that CAD will be a more valuable investment of time because of the growing power of 3d printing and other forms of automatic manufacturing.