[10/23] 2026 Goal Progress

The usual round of writing up progress on the goals I declared. This week was a week where fatigue piled up.

Health

Couldn't make it to the gym

I was planning to do strength training and go to the sports center, but work was busy and I wasn't feeling great, so I didn't make it.

This week wasn't very healthy. My eye kept twitching, and it feels like fatigue has been piling up.

Sleep was all over the place

My sleep was inconsistent too. Some days I slept only 5 hours, some days 7, some days 9.

This week was chaos around vulnerabilities. The PHP mess, Node.js, actually Python too, and a Google-made file upload library also had a vulnerability. Bun was involved as well, so I had to deal with all of that. I ended up working until the middle of the night about 2 days this week.

Quitting smoking

Progress on quitting smoking isn't great either. But I've been consciously sticking to a habit of only smoking under the kitchen vent fan.

That way, when I'm at my desk and would normally want a smoke, there are no cigarettes there. So I think, okay, I'll smoke once I finish this chunk. Because I want to smoke sooner, I finish work faster, or I hand things off to AI and smoke while I'm waiting. My brain has started thinking that way, which is kind of interesting in its own right.

As a result, I feel like the number has gone down a bit over the last 2 days or so.

Work

Using AI for vulnerability fixes was ridiculously efficient

Using AI for fixing vulnerabilities and verification work was insanely efficient.

Investigating all the dependent libraries by hand is really tough, but AI investigated it in no time. It opened pull requests saying this kind of fix should go in, then after testing and having it review multiple times, if it was OK, I applied it. I was able to resolve this in a few hours over yesterday and the day before, which was great.

Rolling out the task management tool with AI employees

The task management tool with AI employees that I declared last week, I was able to roll out aggressively to internal projects and our main running projects.

I got tons of new issues and feedback, and I've been steadily crushing them one by one. Moving forward steadily while getting the whole organization involved feels good.

The issue is my own character

This is a problem with my own character, but I think it's not good that I end up expecting things from people.

I can't always reply right away when I get a mention myself, yet when I mention someone and don't get a reply for a whole day, I go "huh?" I think part of it is that I've gotten weirdly used to AI. AI replies instantly these days.

With human-to-human communication, I need to be about 3 times more considerate and polite than I think I need to be. That's the issue I see in myself right now.

To begin with, I'm the one doing most of what the company needs to do, in a way that depends on me personally. Making things depend on me and then expecting things from others is something I think isn't good.

I think I need to take a calm look at how I behave and create opportunities to get feedback.

Money

A few tens of thousands of yen away from this year's goal

It was a small amount, but one US stock order got filled and I was able to lock in the profit.

I reinvested that freed-up capital and have narrowed things down to about 3 stocks now.

Triggered by Meta's earnings announcement yesterday, AI-related stocks dropped hard. I'd like to buy more if I can get them cheap, but I don't have spare cash, so I'm waiting and watching for now.

I want to sell everything cleanly and lock in all the profits within the year.

The goal I set at the start of this year is now just a few tens of thousands of yen away. One more filled order or so and I'll hit it.

Crypto bot going live in November

For the crypto auto-trading bot, I'm currently testing a new strategy. The plan is to try it with real money around November.

I'm pretty confident about this strategy.

Saving, income, and overseas

I haven't really been saving. No particular change in income either.

Duolingo streak is at 195 days. I've been consciously doing shadowing, where the app's characters speak English and I repeat after them. I can't do all of seeing, reading, speaking, and listening, but I consciously do 3 out of those 4 in a short time. And by short, I really mean 5 or 10 minutes.

I'm not thinking about moving abroad right now.

But as a challenge, there's a company I really like, and I'm building something right now that might catch their eye. If they see it and say "how about it?", that'd be lucky. That's the pretty conservative offense I've got running behind the scenes.

What stood out this week

Family is what matters

Fatigue really piled up this week, and I was working while taking breaks. When I deliberately faced time without work, I thought that, after all, what matters is family.

Say I won the lottery and had 10 billion yen, not that such a lottery exists. Even with more money than I could ever use, if I just spent it lazily every day, I get the sense it would all basically just be killing time.

Efficiency doesn't change how long you're tied up

Work is busy, so I'm usually not idle. I'm still working hard on automation so that I can have free time, but no matter how much you automate or optimize, the time you're tied up doesn't change. There's data on that globally, and someone from DeNA said it too.

The plan was to optimize, increase disposable time, and put it all into new businesses. But in the end, I go ahead and do tasks that could wait until tomorrow. And then there's no time left for the new business.

My organization is amazing

What's interesting, though, is that I feel like our company actually is creating disposable time through efficiency.

And everyone has a strong sense of responsibility, with a lot of people with high ethics, so nobody slacks off without saying anything.

Even when they think there's nothing to do on their assigned project, they grow internal utility tools, brush up tools that every engineer in the company uses, or build workflows that run security checks regularly. Lots of people find problems themselves, create their own work, and deliver things that contribute. I think this organization is amazing.

The ones who remain are those with an FDE mindset

For passive people, right now it's probably hard to get caught going "lucky, no tasks coming in, I'll slack off." But I think eventually they'll stop being given work.

The person delegating has the higher resolution. They raise the resolution, throw it straight to AI, review it a bit, and push it through. There's effort in that, but once even that gets optimized, there's nothing left to delegate.

When that happens, the people delegating are in a position to take responsibility, and because their resolution is high, they can evaluate properly, so those people remain. Whether PM, sales, accounting, or engineer, code gets involved somewhere along the way.

In the end, it's about having a business perspective and figuring out how to solve the problems customers and users want solved through the product, making users happy. And thinking up the optimal solution yourself, tied in with money, like revenue. Then the UI/UX and technical design to make it happen, and the performance, security, and vulnerability measures to deliver it stably. Someone with those perspectives is what you'd call an FDE. In product development, I feel like only people with FDE-like qualities will remain.

The first step toward that is finding problems yourself and taking action. Companies with people who suppress or restrict that are going to decline, I think.

It was a week full of realizations like that. My organization is a ridiculously comfortable place to be.

Wrapping up

Next week: actually move my body, stretch, and put in the effort to make that a habit.

On top of that, building systems to deliver internal projects in a safer state as the defense, and task management that uses AI to the fullest as the offense. I have those planned and I absolutely want to execute them.