My plans and focus areas for 2026.
Plans
- Future view 🤖
- Resist the cynical and uninformed 🙉
- Follow curiosities 🕵️♂️
Focus on
- Daily movement
- Skip breakfast
- Avoid hangovers
- Find music
- Increase savings rate to 40%
Previous Themes
- 2025 - The Year of Synthesis
- 2024 - The Year of Expansion
- 2023 - The Year of Decree
- 2022 - The Year of Foundation
- 2021 - The Year of Creation
- 2020 - The Year of creature comforts
- 2019 - The Year of enjoying life
- 2018 - 2016 - The Years of Saving
2025 Review
It was a good year. AI quickly became the thing and remained the main subject for good reason. It has fundamentally changed how I approach problems, the leverage I can apply, and the outcomes I can achieve.
I became a British citizen, bought a house, was renewed as a platinum OMVP, experienced the hospitality of Vietnam again, posed for a pic with an Oscar, and got a call sign.
The synthesis part didn’t quite play out how I hoped it would. More RAG than synthesis, it turned out.
Focus Areas of 2025
- Exercise at least three times a week: I did relatively well with this. Still had room to improve as always, but I’m already in better condition than I’ve been for a long time. ✔
- Reading is the default: I’ve read a decent amount, could do more. 🤷♂️
- No snacks: I’ve been somewhat okay with this, but occasionally the snacky side takes over. ❌
- Ideate more: I didn’t achieve what I wanted to. I was able to go deeper than I normally would have, thanks to AI, but net-new is still too low. ❌
- Maintain savings rate of 35%: Negative infinity savings rate achieved. 🏠✔
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