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My Goals Bingo as of Q2 2025

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 03:43:00 +0000

In 2025, I’m playing Goals Bingo. I want to complete one row or column of these goals. Here’s my status from Jan – Jun 2025.

🟢 indicates I’m on track and likely to complete. 🟡 indicates I’m behind but I may be able to hit it. 🔴 indicates I’m behind and it’s looking hard.

Domain	Repeat	Stretch	New
People	🟢 Better husband. Going OK	🟡 Meet all first cousins. 8/14 🟢 Interview 10 experts. 11/10	🟡 Live with a stranger. Tried homestay - doesn’t count
Education	🔴 50 books. 6/50	🟡 Teach 5,000 students. ~1,500	🟡 Run a course only with AI. Ran a workshop with AI
Technology	🟢 20 data stories. 10/20	🔴 LLM Foundry: 5K MaU. 2.2K MaU.	🟡 Build a robot. No progress. 🟢 Co-present with an AI. Done
Health	🟢 300 days of yoga. 183/183 days	🟡 80 heart points/day. Far from it 🔴 Bike ~~1,000 km~~ 300 hrs. Far from it	🟢 Vipassana. 2 Jul 2025
Wealth	🔴 Buy low. No progress.	🔴 Beat inflation 5%. Not started.	🟡 Donate $10K. Ideating. 🔴 Fund a startup. Not started.

At the moment, there’s no row or column that looks like a definite win.

Observations:

New goals goals seem likely. I like doing new things.
Stretch goals are least likely. I’n not so good at follow-up or scaling
People goals seem likely. Mild surprise.
Wealth seems least likely. No surprise. I haven’t started doing anything about it 🤷🏽‍♂️.

My Goals Bingo as of Q1 2025

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 03:33:07 +0000

In 2025, I'm playing Goals Bingo. I want to complete one row or column of these goals. Here's my status from Jan - Mar 2025.

🟢 indicates I'm on track and likely to complete.
🟡 indicates I'm behind but I may be able to hit it.
🔴 indicates I'm behind and it's looking hard.

Domain	Repeat	Stretch	New
People	🟢 Better husband. Going OK	🟢 Meet all first cousins. 8/14 🟢 Interview 10 experts. 9/10	🔴 Live with a stranger. Not planned
Education	🟡 50 books. 6/50	🟡 Teach 5,000 students. ~1,500	🔴 Run a course only with AI. Not started
Technology	🟡 20 data stories. 1/20	🔴 LLM Foundry: 5K MaU. 2.2K MaU.	🟡 Build a robot. No progress. 🟢 Co-present with an AI. Done
Health	🟢 300 days of yoga. 91/91 days	🟡 80 heart points/day. 70/80 🔴 Bike ~~1,000 km~~ 300 hrs. 22/300	🟡 Vipassana. Not planned
Wealth	🟡 Buy low. No progress.	🔴 Beat inflation 5%. Exploring.	🟡 Donate $10K. Ideating. 🔴 Fund a startup. Thinking.

Repeat goals seem likely. It's easier to do something again than something bigger or new.

Health goals seem likely. That's a surprise. Maybe I set low targets or under-estimated myself. (I thought I'd hit the technology goals first.)

Wealth seems least likely. Not surprising. I haven't started doing anything about it 🤷🏽‍♂️.

My Year in 2024

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 16:29:58 +0000

Here’s the report card for my 2024 resolutions:

Compound long-term goals, daily. PASS. I managed to work continuously build on 6 areas in 2024:
- Blogging about 50 posts on my blog and on LinkedIn
- Weekly notes of things I learned
- Teaching Tools in Data Science (repo)
- Reading only Manga
- Experimenting with LLM applications
- LLM Evangelization through LLM Foundry, Straive’s LLM portal.
Hit 80 heart points, daily. FAIL. I stopped exercise in the second half and gained 7 kgs.
Be a better husband. PASS. My wife confirmed that I was “definitely worse in 2023 than 2024.”

My most memorable events in 2024 were:

Declaring myself the world’s first and only LLM psychologist
Evaluating 600+ real-life projects with LLMs (project, hacks, analysis)
Creating my own Calvin & Hobbes strips

I also turned 50. (It felt no different.)

In 2025, at my daughter’s nudge, I’ll play Goals Bingo instead, That is, complete one row or column here:

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	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

Some goals are Repeats - something I’ve done at least once before
Some are Stretch goals - things I’ve been doing, but at a bigger scale
Some goals are New things I’ve never done or even tried before

I won’t try them all. I’ll try to cross off one row or column and compound any one aspect.

What are YOUR plans?

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