Goals must have an explicit state of completion and a specified deadline.
Internal are goals dealing with personal growth, and external, as having an effect on the outside world.
| Goal | Status |
|---|---|
| Internal Targets | |
| See the world. Travel the earth, find countries too small to be seen on a map and go there. Watch the northern lights from the sea. | Learned to sail, living on the water since 2016. Completed a 4 years long circumnavigating the Pacific Ocean, across countries I did not know existed. Started dreaming of seeing the North, began insulating the vessel for northern weather, sailed to Alaska. |
| Become polyglot. Speak four languages from four different roots. | Acquired a basic understanding of written and spoken casual Japanese after living in Japan for 4 years. Took introductory Russian classes. |
| Get in shape. Lower resting heart rate, increase lower and upper body strength. Do muscle-ups. Weight 85kg. | In transit: daily squats, pull-ups, daily resistance band front-rows, lat pull-downs and pec flys. Near a gym: An hour and a half workout, every second day. A routine of cardio, legpress, benchpress, kettle bells and hanging leg raises. Gained muscle already, can do many pull-ups, grip strength exercise helped with forearms and joints. |
| External Targets | |
| Inspire an interest in arts & sciences through tooling and mentorship. Assemble a collective of artists and developers capable of becoming multi-disciplinarists. | Created a collection of free and open-source tools to compose music, to create graphics and to write. Currently building decentralized or federated social tools to fuel collaboration among the Merveilles collective, a webring, programming languages for musicians, drawing tools for programmers and many things in-between. |
| Grow an interest into sustainability and resilience, especially aimed at minimizing the pain and suffering of non-human animals through experiments and direct action. | Co-created a research vessel to document experiments in living and working off-the-grid powered with solar energy, and helping anyone interested. Have optimized to reduce waste through a somewhat ascetic lifestyle and a plant-based diet, and wrote books about it. Learned about composting and human waste management, hoping to work on improving documentation and replicability of experiments. |
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Success through smallness. |
I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth. A nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.
- Deliberate practice: Focused, consistent and goal-oriented training. It favours quality over quantity. It knows not all practice is created equal.
- Perfect Duty: Perfect duties are duties that are blameworthy if not met, as they are a basic required duty for a human being.
- Maxim: A concise expression of a fundamental moral rule or principle.
- Surrogate Activity: An activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that people set up for themselves merely in order to have some goal to work toward.
- Wabisabi: Acknowledgement that nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and that nothing is perfect.
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