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| 1 | ++++ |
| 2 | +title = "Out of 2025, Into 2026" |
| 3 | +date = "2025-12-31" |
| 4 | +author = "siphc" |
| 5 | +tags = ["personal"] |
| 6 | +description = "There are quite a few." |
| 7 | ++++ |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +## Purpose |
| 10 | +I want to try something else this year and publish all my goals and aspirations for 2026 so that I may view them at a glance. |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +The goals below are divided into three categories: Goals Spirtual, which address abstract personal matters, Goals Temporal, which address other personal matters that are possible to concretely measure, and Goals Material, which address career-wise matters (you will hopefully hear about them on this blog!). |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +There is also a number to each bullet point's right. They add up to 100. At the end of next year I will look back on each of these items and assign myself a grade; if this system ends up working well, I will try to continue the tradition into 2027. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +--- |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +## Accountability |
| 19 | +Unless otherwise stated, the threshold for "passing" any daily tasks at the end of the year is set at 300 days, obtained by defining the entire month of January as a free pass, and the rest of the year with a 90% success rate ($(365-31)*0.9 = 300.6$), rounded down. |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +For tracking... let's use a [spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aWmXe561mAuSY4UjyN15kOLZoU-0oMXUNrq5L1EBgQg/edit?usp=sharing). There are four of such items, and four accompanied two-letter codes that I have created for them. I will figure some counting system out at the end of the year. |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +--- |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +## OK, So What Are They? |
| 26 | +### Goals Spirtual {{<ralign "(20)">}} |
| 27 | +- Continue to not regularly use any social media platform {{<ralign "(8)">}} |
| 28 | +- Be a more honest, humble, down-to-earth version of myself {{<ralign "(8)">}} |
| 29 | +- Be more well-spoken, avoid internet slang {{<ralign "(4)">}} |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +### Goals Temporal {{<ralign "(44)">}} |
| 32 | +- Read for at least 15 minutes daily {{<ralign "(RE: 8)">}} |
| 33 | +- Reduce (mobile) screen time to <=2 hours daily {{<ralign "(ST: 10)">}} |
| 34 | +- No screen time after midnight, and wake up no later than 8:30am {{<ralign "(BE: 8)">}} |
| 35 | +- Jog/Bike for at least 20 minutes in >= 200 days {{<ralign "(EX: 8)">}} |
| 36 | +- Release my debut EP {{<ralign "(6)">}} |
| 37 | +- Publish something interesting at least once a month on this blog {{<ralign "(4)">}} |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +### Goals Material {{<ralign "(36)">}} |
| 40 | +- Co-author my second paper {{<ralign "(8)">}} |
| 41 | +- Write my first interpreter {{<ralign "(8)">}} |
| 42 | +- Self-host my first SSH server {{<ralign "(4)">}} |
| 43 | +- Finish reading [What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory](https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf) {{<ralign "(6)">}} |
| 44 | +- Finish reading [Software Architecture with C++, 2e](https://www.packtpub.com/en-us/product/software-architecture-with-c-9781803235059) {{<ralign "(5)">}} |
| 45 | +- Read [Linux From Scratch](https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/) {{<ralign "(5)">}} |
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