These are my OKRs for 2023, which I have set for myself & drafted in January 2023.

By end 2023, I would like

… to have explored creating & using tools at the intersection of Dharma, Design & Digital (Objective 1): linked to the idea of permissionless leverage!

==Key Results for 2023:==
  1. Complete >= 8 mobile or web applications, which draw on Dharma principles as inspiration
  2. Submit 1 app to a design award
  3. Prepare & submit a talk to a conference about my experience at this intersection
==1Q2023 Key Results (by 1 Apr 2023)==
  1. Make 1 mobile app
  2. Complete John Gallaugher Youtube course on SwiftUI
  3. Complete 100 Days of SwiftUI

… to be financially sustainable for my two year sabbatical & be financially independent (Objective 2)

==Key Results for 2023:==
  1. Earned S$60,000 from various gigs & products
  2. Reduced total monthly expenses to $5,000/month (including $2k rental + $2k tax bill monthly)
  3. Fully invested a portfolio of ETFs
  4. Made & sold 5 info products on Gumroad or some other platform
==1Q2023 Key Results (by 1 Apr 2023)==
  1. Track & reduce monthly expenses to $5,000/month
  2. Hunt for projects to deliver S$60,000
  3. Fully invest ETFs
  4. Make & sell 1 info product on Gumroad

… to have given my time & energy to causes I want to give to (Objective 3):

a. Dhamma & Practice

b. Dhamma Community

c. CIID

d. EDB & EDB Society

e. online communities

==Key Results for 2023:==

For 3a: Dhamma & Practice

  1. Complete 3 online Dhamma projects (this overlaps with OKR 1.1)
  2. Visit Ajahn Ganha
  3. Attend 2 retreats

3b: Dhamma Community

  1. Complete 1 Design Thinking training for the Buddhist community

3c: CIID

  1. Complete 1 pop up school and/or IDP industry project in Singapore

3d: EDB & EDB Society

  1. Complete testing a new Database for EDB Soc members
==1Q2023 Key Results (by 1 Apr 2023)==

For 3a: Dhamma & Practice

  1. Complete Buddhism without BS
  2. Schedule visits to Ajahn Ganha
  3. Schedule & buy tickets for 2 retreats

3b: Dhamma Community

  1. Complete 1 Design Thinking training for the Buddhist community

3c: CIID

  1. Go/no-go decision on CIID in Singapore

3d: EDB & EDB Society

  1. Complete Airtable mock-up

… to have expressed my “useless” creativity (Objective 4)

==Key Results for 2023:==
  1. Write daily blog posts (365 drafts)
  2. Publish weekly on blog & social media (52 posts)
  3. Complete 1 draft story of The Family
  4. Practiced 365 daily sketches
==1Q2023 Key Results (by 1 Apr 2023)==
  1. 62 daily blog post drafts
  2. 11 weekly posts
  3. Draft outline of The Family short story
  4. 62 daily sketches

… to have learned more about core computing & computer science topics (Objective 5)

==Key Results for 2023:==
  1. Worked through “Grokking Simplicity book”
  2. Worked through “Practical SQL” book
  3. Read through SICP
  4. Worked through Eric Normand’s Intro to Clojure course
  5. Worked through Jacek Schae’s Reitit course
==1Q2023 Key Results (by 1 Apr 2023)==
  1. Finish reading SICP
  2. Finish reading Grokking Simplicity

… to have automated most of my workflows (Objective 6)

==Key Results for 2023:==
  1. Automate financial tracking tasks at the end of every month: the ideal end state would be that I can download the data, run scripts & get insights straight away in 1 hr
==1Q2023 Key Results (by 1 Apr 2023)==
  1. Automate financial tracking tasks at the end of every month: the ideal end state would be that I can download the data, run scripts & get insights straight away in 1 hr

I’m publishing all this for the sake of transparency, since that is in-line with the [[8 Personal Principles in the Wild for 2023]] that I am aiming to operate by. As I hit the OKRs, I’ll strike them through.