December 31, 2025

Here’s the report card for my 2025 goals bingo. Domain Repeat Stretch New People 🟢 Better husband 🔴 Meet all first cousins 🟢 Interview 10 experts 🔴 Live with a stranger Education 🟢 50 books 🟢 Teach 5,000 students 🟢 Run a course only with AI Technology 🟢 20 data stories 🔴 LLM Foundry: 5K MaU 🟢 300 days of GitHub 🔴 Build a robot 🟢 Co-present with an AI Health 🟢 300 days of yoga 🔴 80 heart points/day 🔴 Bike 1,000 km 🟢 Vipassana Wealth 🔴 Buy low 🔴 Beat inflation 5% 🟢 Donate $10K 🔴 Fund a startup The “Education” and “Technology” rows have a BINGO! Repeat goals were easier than new goals were easier than strech goals (no surprise). 11/20 wins means I’m picking realistic and ambitious goals. ...

I read 51 books in 2025 (about the same as in 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.) With a difference: I used AI to read 44 of them in the last week of the year. Mind blowing The Ants by Bert Hölldobler. Finally, after 20 years of wanting to read it. It lives up to the hype. Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5) by Brandon Sanderson. The only fiction I’ve taken notes for. (About 500 points.) Life changing (or at least, perspective changing) ...