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I'm no good at making lists. A lot of interesting content I come across is organized in lists; I'm thinking most recently Keith's comments on Lean in a Nutshell, but also (more or less at random) posts by Johanna on Phone Screens, Esther on Management Skills, etc. My mind just doesn't seem to work that way, so I'm usually envious when I see someone rattle off a series of bullet points that actually add up to useful advice or a well thought out model of whatever is being discussed.

This is definitely the time of the year to be making a list, as we gear up to list all the new year's resolutions we definitely won't keep this time around. I'm not even going to make a single one, but as an exercise I want to try my hand at a list.

For starters, and without further ado, a list of the things that would make for an interesting list in a further entry.

• A list of all the things that need doing in a software project, which make it so easy to never actually do any programming
• A list of ideas from the Java language that I've transposed to other languages
• A list of more or less esoteric programming constructs, such as continuations, with musings on the circumstances under which they might be refactoring targets
• A list of things a manager usually does which a team could do just as well
• A list of categories actually appropriate to classify my own entries on this blog

Now we'll see if I can overcome my aversion for lists a second time, sometime during the coming year, and actually expand one of these (or a different one altogether, I'm not ruling that out).