In contrast to 2014-2015 list of goals, I make it public from the very beginning, only 8 items on the list (out of 29) have restricted access ;) The goals are finalized. As for design, I'll improve it later.
- Sleep 7.5-8.5 hours on average (with variance < 2.5) [0/1]
- Run 150 kilometers outdoors in total [0/150]
- Juggling: keep 4 tennis balls in the air for 1 minute [0/1]
- French
- Complete all exercises from each of the 7 weeks of "Cours de français langue étrangère A2" by Alliance française de Paris [0/7]
- Write 30 entries on Lang-8 (>= 200 words each) [0/30]
- Pass DELF B1 [0/1]
- Guitar
- Yousician
- Unlock all 10 levels on each of the three educational paths (starting value - 5/1/4) [5/10], [1/10], [4/10]
- Collect 30 golden stars for missions (starting value - 9) [0/21]
- Collect 50 silver stars for missions (starting value - 11, including 9 golden ones) [0/39]
- Learn to play and sing 5 songs (including 1 in French and 1 in English) [0/5]
- Chess
- Enhance opening repertoire (details not disclosed) [0/1]
- Solve 5 tasks a day on Chesstempo 300 times throughout the year [0/300]
- Work through [0/2]
- Jeremy Silman "How to Reassess Your Chess" (partly read in autumn 2016)
- Jonathan Hawkins "Amateur to IM: Proven Ideas and Training Methods" (partly read in summer 2015)
- Reach 2100 rating on Chesstempo (cur rtg = 1914.5, max rtg = 1974.5) [0/1]
- Reach 2400 Glicko-2 in blitz on Lichess (cur rtg = 2100, max rtg = 2328) [0/1]
- Reach 2200 Elo in standard chess (cur rtg = 2071) [0/1]
- Reach 2200 Elo in blitz chess (cur rtg = ?) [0/1]
- Reach 2000 Elo in rapid chess (cur rtg = 1881) [0/1]
- Correct all tournament games mistakes playing vs AI (details not disclosed) [?/?]
- Reading
- Fiction. Read [0/11]
- Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" in Russian (in progress as of January 1, 2017)
- Christopher Paolini "Eragon" in Russian
- Vyacheslav Rybakov "Fireplace on a Tower" in Russian
- Kurt Vonnegut "Breakfast of Champions" OR "Mother Night" in Russian
- Gabriel Katz "Le Puits des Mémoires" in French
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Citadelle" in Russian
- Arthur Conan Doyle "The Lost World" in English
- Arturo Pérez-Reverte "The Flanders Panel" in Russian
- Dan Brown "Origin" in English (to be published on September 26, 2017)
- Hermann Hesse "Steppenwolf" in Russian
- Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald "The Wizard's Apprentice" - Books VII and VIII in English (buy paperback versions)
- Non-fiction. Read/Listen to (all in English) [0/9]
- Andrew S. Grove - High Output Management
- Brian Tracy - Eat That Frog!
- J. Hank Rainwater - Herding Cats: a Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers
- Robert Cialdini - Influence: The Science and Practice (partly listened to a year ago)
- William Zinsser - On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (partly read a year ago)
- Stephen King - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
- Tom DeMarko - The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management
- Melvyn Bragg - The Adventure of English 500 AD to 2000: The Biography of a Language
- Ha-Joon Chang - Economics: The User's Guide
