2018 Personal OKRs

Updated with end of year notes.

This year, rather than define a set of resolutions, I’ve decided to use the OKR framework – and to publish my goals as a commitment mechanism.

• Healthy body: run 1000 miles + 2 marathons, lift 75 times, vegetarian until dinner 4 days/week
  🍏 Ran 1,325 miles + 2 marathons! Lifted 37 times, as marathon training crowded it out. Another ~20 activities (e.g. hiking, skiing) made for 5.2 per week. Hit veg goal 73% of weeks and 4.2 days/week on average.
• Healthy mind: read 25 books + 50 Economists (not cover-to-cover!)
  🍏 27 books, 42 Economists
• Happy family: Zero “lose my cool” yelling at the kids by December, double praise:criticism ratio
  🍏 The yelling goal seemed to work: I had 19 yelling instances on the year, with 11 of them in the first 4 months of the year, only 4 in the last 5 months, and 0 in December. Never figured out a good measurement methodology on the praise:criticism.
• Career: Do something useful at Area 120, publish 20 articles
  🔶 Didn’t start a new product, but learned a ton and made some significant contributions to Google, including on blockchain strategy, through advising half a dozen startup teams, and in coaching several project leads. Developed a set of personal policy interests and published a housing platform. Published 16 posts, though I wouldn’t call them all articles as I started posting book reviews to Medium (though many of them are pretty involved).
• Sustainable hobbies: Play piano 200 times + find a teacher, get all photos/videos organized + create a system to keep them so
  🔶 Played piano 135 times. Found & fired a teacher. Got half a dozen photos and video libraries into one archive, but haven’t finished organizing.
• Doing good: Increase charitable donations as a share of income by 75%
  🍏 Doubled it.

Here are the goals for 2019.