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December goals

Goals, goals, goals. Where have you gone?

Since I last wrote about goals, I've started working on a new team and have been working on a ton of new things. I totally missed these goals by miles:

1. Android? I've done some stuff in Java, but definitely not Android.
2. C? Nope, unfortunately.
3. Golang? Sadly, none.

But, I've gotten to do a lot of other things that I thought I'd only dream of doing, including (and not limited to):

1. Running several times a week. Max mileage has been about 6.5 mi in one session at Lake Chabot! This is a BIG BIG BIG thing for me because I've never pushed myself harder than now in running.
2. Learning reverse engineering. I will try to start blogging about it. Probably in another blog.
3. Still reading, slowly going through "The Looming Tower".
4. Contributing to open source with actual code.

:) So, apparently I'm really bad at setting and achieving goals.

In the next month, I plan to:

1. Finish my current book and start reading a new book. Probably "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise".
2. Go on a photo shoot outing with a friend.
3. Hit goals at work.
4. Learn how to shellcode and get to lab 4 in RPI's MBE class.
5. Finish module 1 in PyImagesearch class.

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