I’m going to keep a public list of the “goals” I have for the year. I use goals in quotes because it’s basically just a high level list of things I want to do for the year, somewhere between goals and to-do list. I’ll try to keep it up to date.
Last updated: Jan 24, 2026
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- Read 20 books (at least 10 should be ones I already own)
- Run a half marathon (or possibly full)
- Average 30min a day of exercise (15h per month)
- Publish 3 deep dives
- Release unnamed App Store Analytics app
- Release home management app
- Publish more Numerical Level Packs + Connected Blocks mechanic
- Publish 12x blog posts
- Publish a monthly newsletter
- At least 1 family trip and/or host family holidays
- Save $$ (I’ve been less diligent since the baby is coming)
- Finish ShiftNudge design Course
- Find a game design/artist partner to collaborate with
- Participate in a game jam
- Organize our basement storage
- Dial in a good decaf espresso process (kinda gross right now)
- Make a goals post (this one!)
- Finish MagicMarker drawing app (iPad)
- Do the Text Editor in C tutorial
- Learn to Play Zanarkand on Piano
- Learn to Play this song on Piano
- Improve Math skills & understanding (Seth Braver Algebra book)
- Finish reading Silvanus Thompson Calculus Book + Exercises in each chapter
- Learn more about Deep Learning
- Finish Reading: Deep Reinforcement Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning textbooks
- Build something related to Deep Learning
- Release a “Building Destructomath+ tutorial” video series
- Try the 1 Billion Row Challenge in C (https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc)