What are your long-term goals?

Since this forum is focused on long-term goals, I'd like to ask you: what are you guys long term goals, the ones that are related to either this whole year or to a longer timestamp (5 years? 10 years?), and how do you plan to get in that place?

To start with mine, I have the following plans for myself:

One year goals

• Ge over 80% grades in all of my classes
• Write the research project for my thesis and have it approved
• Read 6 books
• Have an accumulated amount of 100 workouts this year
• Post 12 blogs on my Substack
• Save 20% of my salary
• Learn how to use VIm motions (and possibly the Neovim editor too)

Good luck with your goals and glad to hear you're trying to be more vim proficient!

My roughly formatted goals for 2025 and onwards:

• Move next to the ocean for 3 months
• Get good enough to surf shoulder-high or lower waves in most conditions
• Get my music channel over 50 (non-friends) subscribers
• Research savings/investing and diversify

My thesis relates to creating a plugin for Moodle, a Virtual Learning Environment, to run SQL commands inside homework activities assigned by the databases professor. it will go through the reason for creating this plugin, how I created it, and, if possible, which gains did it give to students about relational databases.

What about yours, Kate? What is your masters about, and what do you plan to write for your thesis?

Juicy topic, I definitely enjoyed seeing what others are aspiring to in the coming year!!

A couple of my intentions are already spelled out among other goals in this here site. But if I am going to fill out a Top 5 Yearly Goals (feels like an achievable threshold?), I'd go with:

1. Visit family at least monthly (visit scheduled for this coming weekend ✅ Racking up dem coinz)
2. Finish a song every two months. If I stick to it, my band would have an EP's worth of material by end of year. And it's fun to continuously learn.
3. Stay loyal to distribution, ie reaching out to people who could benefit from Alloy products. Specifically, I aspire to average a bizdev email per business day. Even tho I don't send an email every day, there are some days where I send 5, so I think this goal is achievable.
4. Finish the Amplenote Task Stats / Victory Value system by end of year (it counts if Jordan agrees to tackle it, since he's most likely to finish v1). Been saying I want to work on it for 2+ years, and having a quantified sense for most valuable tasks will open lots of doors, not least backtracking to understand the circumstances when I added the idea that ended up being highest value
5. At least one blog post per month. Since I have three blogs to maintain, this should be a modest goal. Already posted 3-4 in January so far. But a Nate Silver mantra is always be blogging if you want to succeed at what you're doing, so I don't want there to be any months where I didn't blog something. Best case, 3x per month.

Props to anyone who remembers to show up in 2026 and report on how well they kept to their initial goals. 💪

Hope to see some others document their 2025 goals here. Great topic idea, Matheus.

Matheus, sounds really interesting, and helpful to students. Moodle looks great. My degree is online actually and I have been so impressed by all the new teaching tools (been awhile since I've been in school). I learn things a lot faster with more modern methods. I am studying bioinformatics and there isn't a thesis - just a research paper at the end. I haven't settled on what it will be about though.

I see. You should do think about something to write about then. I recommend something you're already into, so it gets easier to research.