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?