Setting new year goals, for me, is not about achieving everything. It is about having a north star for my day to day, pointing at what I actually want and cutting down the distractions.

Here are mine for this year.

Improve the HTML parsing: Nami

Carrying on from last year. I am building a browser from scratch in Rust (or trying to), and it has been a real challenge. This year I want to keep working through HTML parsing following the spec, and polish a few things.

Nami

3000 minutes of meditation

I made it in 2024 and I want to keep it this year. I have meditated since 2020 using Headspace, and I want to deepen the practice with more of the intensive courses in the app. Mindfulness is incredible.

Publish regularly on Nomadz

My focus this year is not subscriber count, it is consistency. In 2023 I created my community for backpacking digital nomads. Plenty of people joined the Discord for free, I recorded two long classes and posted some free material.

Nomadz

Librium MVP

Last year I got some of the book scripts further along. I hope to push it far enough to launch the MVP this year: my reading social network.

25 books

I hit it last year, but only just. Keeping the same target.

A trip to Japan

My Japanese moved forward too. I read Hiragana well now, and it is time to practise in the land of the rising sun. I am really looking forward to this one.

Jump from a helicopter

I reached Category B in skydiving in 2024. Travelling makes it hard to find drop zones that take beginners, but bit by bit I completed the 50 jumps and the required exam. Now I can do things like jump from a helicopter and mount a camera on my helmet.

Learn tracking, sit fly and back fly

And of course I want to keep progressing in the sport and fly better by learning other techniques.

Gold in LoL (secret)

It costs nothing to dream, and I take this little game quite seriously.

Tomorrowland 2025

In 2024 this was a goal achieved. Now it is a tradition: go to that incredible festival in Belgium every year.

Let's see how many of these I get.

I hope you land yours too. Happy 2025.

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