I like this approach to New Year's resolutions, where a theme is selected and embodied throughout the coming year. It's abstract enough that one freely do/learn a lot from within a given "theme."
In retrospect, 2016 was an immense year of learning-- one where my feet first got wet in the tech industry through my experience at Techstars, and further through my experience operating Zeroth.ai in Hong Kong. Reduced to an overarching concept, "learning" was last year's theme, embodied by what I became by December 31st.
Transitioning into 2017, this year is themed critical, from a thinking and producing perspective. I have recently returned to reading philosophy, and want to probe my "old" interests (the theory of value, the Unconscious, and the notion of common sense) in this new space, tech entrepreneurship and venture capital. I see a lot play out in an inter-related manner between my old interests in the tech/VC industry.
The industry is not my focus, per se, and any critique of it is mostly a function of its existence as low-hanging fruit in my day-in-day-out work. It is an easy analog for me. Because of this, my primary focus is still on philosophy, and what philosophical concepts mean today. Entrepreneurship and venture capital is, both merely and spectacularly, an interesting theater for philosophical thoughts to act themselves out amidst a wide array of different characters and desires. 2017 is the year to better understand how these characters interact on the stage with one another, and maybe locate opportunities for a plot twist.