The shortest 2025 wrapped

Here’s a brief refresher on what my goals for last year were:

2025 Goals

• At least 1 more research paper (if not published, then at least working)
• 5+ side quests, somewhere along the vibes of:
• 10,000 more Anki cards added
• Live abroad for at least a month
• Visit SF
• Publish something each week (a guy can dream right?)
• Convince a stranger to pay me for either tutoring or something I’ve made
• Pass the Japanese N1 test (This seems insane and borderline impossible but whatever)
• Pass the Chinese HSK6 test
• Read 30 books
• Have too many ideas to do in a year
• Run a 20 minute 5k
• Get good at photography

2026?

Last year I set a lot of outcome goals, and I achieved exactly 50% of them. Not that it’s bad to be ambitious, but I think the issue was setting a lot of far reaching goals where doing even just a few of them in a year would’ve made me really happy.

So this year, I would like to set just two goals for myself:

1. Finish my Anki cards every single day
2. Out side-quest Albert Hibbs

Hopefully everything else falls into place :)