[10/2] 2026 Goal Progress
Weekly goal progress update - health, work, and money.
The usual round of writing up progress on the goals I declared. Work was busy this week, and basically nothing else moved.
Health
No training, just stretching
I ended up not doing any training at home this week.
I did stretch a bit. Work was busy and I couldn't find the time.
Sleeping on a regular schedule, and still spacing out all day
On sleep and daily rhythm — regular is about the right word.
I'm not doing anything weird like staying up late, or going to bed and getting up at wildly different times each day, so I think my sleep schedule is in decent shape.
But I space out all day.
And the twitch under my left eye has been going for about two weeks now, so I need to see a doctor.
Seriously, what even is this left-eye twitch.
Quitting smoking
No improvement.
Work
A small release, and it wiped me out
We had a small release this week and it wiped me out.
What I want to do is put into words what exactly wore me down, and then grow the AI employees into a system that reduces that. That's the shape of it, so I want to do it properly.
People should get together, and fairly often
Also, once a project or a mid-sized task wraps, people should get in a room and review how it went.
I really do think people should get together. And fairly often.
Giving feedback and continuing to improve off it — that's something we need to actually be doing.
AI: improving the accuracy of automation
On improving the accuracy of the automation, I'm making gradual progress.
The problem: I can't articulate what wore me down
The problem is the thing I just said — I can't put into words what exactly wore me down.
Money
Still holding what I took profit on last week
Nothing much on investing.
I'm still holding the proceeds from last week's profit-taking and waiting for the right timing.
Beyond that, I haven't had the bandwidth to watch the market, so I haven't done much.
The crypto bot: experimenting with a new strategy
On the crypto auto-trading, I'm running a new strategy, and it's not looking great.
It's still an experiment, so I'm sitting on it for now.
Savings and income
Nothing new on either.
Duolingo at 274 days
Duolingo is the one thing still going — 274 days.
As for moving abroad, I'm not thinking about it right now.
Other
Cigarettes went up ¥20 a pack
My health still isn't great this week, which makes me think it really is the smoking.
And prices went up on October 1st — about ¥20 a pack.
So it's about time I quit for real.
Wrapping up
Next week is another busy one at work, so the plan is to work through it with an actual plan.
And I'm absolutely doing the at-home strength training and the stretching.
Because I definitely don't smoke while I'm doing that. I want to deliberately increase the hours in my day where smoking is physically impossible.
Also, the project-manager-style AI employee I've been building at work is pretty far along on implementation, so next week I want to roll it out properly.