Impossible List
First Online: 2022-04-16
Last Updated: 2026-06-03
Introduction
Big Open Goals
- Get the Leetcode hat
- Reach 1/2/3/4
- Win a Pull Up or Push Up Contest
- Do a 1h of practise a day for a year
- Get to see myself genuinely lean (GW 69kg)
- Reproduce the image of my goal physique
Academic Goals
- Finish my Bachelors Thesis (15.12.2022, DOI)
- Finish my Bachelors Degree (08.03.2023)
- Finish my Masters Thesis (09.09.2025, DOI)
- Finish my Masters Degree (23.4.2026)
- Finish my LL.M.
- Supervise my first thesis (26.05.2026 TODO ADD DOI AS SOON AS PUBLSIHED)
- Publish my First Paper (14.12.2024)
- Publish my first primary authorship
- Do a univerity lecture (04.04.2024)
- Do an advanced one (07.04.2026)
- Do one on hardcore HPC
Life Long Learning Goals
- Books (or -likes) I want to read
- Some formal crypto book, probably Serious Cryptography
- SICP
- Some compiler/interpreter book, probably Crafting Interpreters
- Become a Data Protection Officer
- TODO Might add some Nvidia DLI, GATech (Systems Track), or Algorithms stuff later...
- Visit cool summer schools (they change a lot, so I'll add them ad-hoc!)
- Machine Learning Specialization
- Deep Learning Specialization
Programming Goals
- Publish my first real life project (06.03.2023, it's Ankiding!)
- Publish my first library (14.08.2022, see
nchainz)- Publish my first useful library
- Give my first programming talk (09.02.2022)
- Now give it in real life (26.04.2022)
- Win my first Hackathon (25.05.2019, Spacehack!)
- Watch all cppcon back2basics at a given time
- Open Source Contributions:
- Linux Kernel
- Stuff I want to build
- A Counter Strike hack
- A website with a real backend
- Do a 80 hour programming week, inspired by Nick Winter
Competitve Programming related Goals
- Get the Leetcode hat
- Compete at a competitive programming contest (12.11.2022)
- Compete at 10 contests
- Codeforces Ratings
- Specialist
- Expert
- Candidate Master
- Have all Advent Of Codes completed (at one point in time)
- Finish 2015
- Finish 2016
- Finish 2017
- Finish 2018
- Finish 2019
- Finish 2020
- Finish 2021
- Finish 2022
- Finish 2023
- Finish 2024
- Finish 2025
- Finish one advent of code live when it happens
- Do 100 Leetcode questions (29.05.2026)
- Have a 7 days leetcode streak (07.01.2025)
- Have a full month badge
- Complete USACO Guide
- Neetcode
- Complete Algorithms and Data Structures for Beginners
- Complete Advanced Algorithms
- Complete Neetcode 150
- Complete the CSES Problem Set
- Complete all exercises in Cracking the Coding Interview
Fitness and Health
Cardio
- Run a 5k in under 30min
- Run a 5k in under 25min (09.09.2022, Sparkassenlauf, 23:01)
- Run a 10k in under 1h (15.01.2023, in 54:55 on a treadmill) (05.05.2024 official)
- Run a 20k in under 2h (04.05.2025, 1:55:15)
- Run a 5k in under 20min
- Complete a timed half marathon (15.07.2022, 03:03:51)
- Complete a timed full marathon
- Run at a formal event (09.09.2022)
- Complete the Goggins 4x4x48
Strength
- Reach 1/2/3/4
- OHP
- 0.5 plate (17.03.2024)
- 0.75 plate
- Bench
- 1.5 plate
- Squat
- Get atg squat without helper
- 1 plate (31.01.2026)
- 1.5 plate (04.02.2026)
- 2 plate
- DL
- 2 plate (18.03.2024)
- 3 plate Deadlift
- Other
- 1 Muscle Up
- 50 push ups in a row
- 10 Pull Ups in a row (20.07.2025)
- 20 Pull Ups in a row
- Complete The Sally challenge
- Win a Pull Up or Push Up Contest
Skills
- Learn Rope Skipping (22.10.2023)
- Learn the handstand
Aesthetics
- Get to see myself genuinely lean (GW 69kg)
- Get visible Abs
- Reproduce the image of my goal physique
Fasting
- Do a 24h fast (23.03.2023)
- Do a 48h fast (21.10.2025)
- Do a 72h fast
- Do a 5 day fast
- Do 7 day streak of 16-8 fasting
- Do 30 day streak of 16-8 fasting
- Do a 7 day streak of OMAD
- Do a 14 day streak of OMAD
Streak
- 100 days of no smoking (11.04.2023)
- 365 days of no smoking (01.01.2024)
- 100 days of no soda (15.12.2023)
- 100 days of no caffeine (15.12.2023)
- Use the YNAB method for a year
- Do a 1h of practise a day for a year
Other goals
- Publish my first Youtube Video (Master Theorem Visually Explained, 18.09.2022)
- Get completely rid of my lisp
- Get up to date with One Piece
Removed Goals
These are goals that I genuinely am not interested in anymore. For each of them, I also provided a description.
- Do a PhD: I am not interested anymore in doing very small impact research (i.e. with high output velocity) just for the sake of having a
Dr., although I don't even want to stay in research. My reasoning on whether to do a PhD is very nuanced tbh, thus I wouldn't even fully rule it out; but it would require a very cool topic, which I currently don't see happening.