{"id":23141870,"url":"https://github.com/winter-code/goals","last_synced_at":"2026-01-19T10:33:19.875Z","repository":{"id":101913995,"uuid":"304541292","full_name":"winter-code/Goals","owner":"winter-code","description":"Have just started and some of them have been accomplished; but changes are happening everyday and I am excited to cover all of these someday! 🚀 Yayy.","archived":false,"fork":false,"pushed_at":"2021-02-13T15:46:06.000Z","size":8,"stargazers_count":1,"open_issues_count":0,"forks_count":2,"subscribers_count":1,"default_branch":"main","last_synced_at":"2025-04-04T11:37:52.145Z","etag":null,"topics":["goals","growth","motivation"],"latest_commit_sha":null,"homepage":"","language":null,"has_issues":true,"has_wiki":null,"has_pages":null,"mirror_url":null,"source_name":null,"license":null,"status":null,"scm":"git","pull_requests_enabled":true,"icon_url":"https://github.com/winter-code.png","metadata":{"files":{"readme":"README.md","changelog":null,"contributing":null,"funding":null,"license":null,"code_of_conduct":null,"threat_model":null,"audit":null,"citation":null,"codeowners":null,"security":null,"support":null,"governance":null,"roadmap":null,"authors":null,"dei":null,"publiccode":null,"codemeta":null}},"created_at":"2020-10-16T06:38:47.000Z","updated_at":"2021-08-02T11:23:40.000Z","dependencies_parsed_at":null,"dependency_job_id":"cd5fe407-6314-4d48-9d74-2d4edcf0757f","html_url":"https://github.com/winter-code/Goals","commit_stats":null,"previous_names":[],"tags_count":0,"template":false,"template_full_name":null,"purl":"pkg:github/winter-code/Goals","repository_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/winter-code%2FGoals","tags_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/winter-code%2FGoals/tags","releases_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/winter-code%2FGoals/releases","manifests_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/winter-code%2FGoals/manifests","owner_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/owners/winter-code","download_url":"https://codeload.github.com/winter-code/Goals/tar.gz/refs/heads/main","sbom_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/winter-code%2FGoals/sbom","scorecard":null,"host":{"name":"GitHub","url":"https://github.com","kind":"github","repositories_count":286080680,"owners_count":28565559,"icon_url":"https://github.com/github.png","version":null,"created_at":"2022-05-30T11:31:42.601Z","updated_at":"2026-01-19T08:53:44.001Z","status":"ssl_error","status_checked_at":"2026-01-19T08:52:40.245Z","response_time":67,"last_error":"SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 peeraddr=140.82.121.6:443 state=error: unexpected eof while reading","robots_txt_status":"success","robots_txt_updated_at":"2025-07-24T06:49:26.215Z","robots_txt_url":"https://github.com/robots.txt","online":false,"can_crawl_api":true,"host_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub","repositories_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories","repository_names_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repository_names","owners_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/owners"}},"keywords":["goals","growth","motivation"],"created_at":"2024-12-17T14:14:36.664Z","updated_at":"2026-01-19T10:33:19.870Z","avatar_url":"https://github.com/winter-code.png","language":null,"readme":"# Goals\n\n## Technical Goals - [2/16]\n\n- [ ] become an expert in a domain/technology/language (databases, machine learning, Python)\n\n- [ ] get to a point where you can drop into new situations or technologies and quickly start making a big impact\n\n- [ ] do research-y work / something that’s never been done before\n\n- [ ] satisfy your intellectual curiosity about something\n\n- [ ] get comfortable with really big codebases\n\n- [ ] work on a system that has X scale/complexity (millions of requests per second, etc)\n\n- [ ] scale a project way past its original design goals\n\n- [ ] do work that saves the company a large amount of money\n\n- [ ] be an incident commander for an incident and run the postmortem\n\n- [x] make an contribution to an open source project\n\n- [x] get better at some skill (testing / debugging / a programming language / machine learning)\n\n- [ ] become a core maintainer for an important OSS project\n\n- [ ] build an important system from scratch\n\n- [ ] be involved with a product/project from start to end (over several years)\n\n- [ ] understand how complex systems fail (and how to make them not fail)\n\n- [ ] be able to build prototypes quickly for new ideas\n\n- [ ] Become better OS, Complier and Security.\n\n## Job Goals - [6/20]\n\n- [x] get your first job\n\n- [x] pass a programming interview\n\n- [ ] get your “dream job” (if you have one)\n\n- [x] work at a prestigious company\n\n- [x] work at a very small company\n\n- [ ] work at a company for a really long time (to see how things play out over time)\n\n- [x] work at a company who values you a lot\n\n- [ ] work at lots of different companies (to get lots of different perspectives)\n\n- [ ] get a raise\n\n- [ ] become a manager\n\n- [ ] get to a specific title (“architect”, “senior engineer”, “CTO”, “developer evangelist”, “principal engineer”)\n\n- [ ] Get better as an interviewee\n\n- [ ] Get better as an interviewer\n\n- [ ] work at a nonprofit / company where you believe in the mission\n\n- [x] work on a product that your family / friends would recognize\n\n- [x] work in many different fields\n\n- [x] work in a specific field you care about (education, security, women-empowerment)\n\n- [ ] get paid to work on a specific project (eg the linux kernel)\n\n- [ ] as an academic, have stable funding to work towards your research interests\n\n- [ ] become a baker / work on something else entirely :)\n\n## Entrepreneurship Goals - [1/5]\n\n- [ ] start freelancing\n\n- [ ] start a consulting company\n\n- [ ] make your first sale of software you wrote\n\n- [ ] get VC funding / start a startup\n\n- [ ] get to X milestone with a company you started\n\n## Product Goals - [2/7]\n\n- [ ] do your work in a specific way that you care about (eg make websites that are accessible)\n\n- [x] build tools for people who you work with directly (this can be so fun!!)\n\n- [ ] make a big difference to a system you care about (eg “internet security”)\n\n- [ ] do work that helps solve an important problem (climate change, etc)\n\n- [x] work in a team/project whose product affects more than a million people\n\n- [x] work on a product that people love\n\n- [ ] build developer tools\n\n## People/Leadership Goals - [5/7]\n\n- [x] help new people on your team get started\n\n- [ ] help someone get a job/opportunity that they wouldn’t have had otherwise\n\n- [ ] mentor someone and see them get better over time\n\n- [ ] “be a blessing to others you wished someone else was to you”\n\n- [ ] be a union organizer / promote fairness at work\n\n- [ ] build a more inclusive team\n\n- [ ] build a community that matters to people (via a meetup group or otherwise)\n\n## Communication / Community Goals - [1/9]\n\n- [ ] write a technical book\n\n- [x] Learn to say \"NO\" to people, things, places, requests etc.\n\n- [ ] give a talk (meetup, conference talk, keynote)\n\n- [ ] give a talk at a really prestigious conference / in front of people you respect\n\n- [ ] give a workshop on something you know really well\n\n- [ ] start a conference\n\n- [ ] write a popular blog / an article that gets upvoted a lot\n\n- [ ] teach a class (eg at a high school / college)\n\n- [ ] change the way folks in the industry think about something (eg blameless postmortems, fairness in machine learning)\n\n- [ ] Avoid Open Source work Burnout\n\n## Work Environment Goals - [3/8]\n\n- [x] get flexible hours\n\n- [x] work remotely\n\n- [ ] get your own office\n\n- [ ] work in a place where you feel accepted/included\n\n- [ ] work with people who share your values (this involves knowing what your values are! :) - Fairness, Joy, Learning, Determination)\n\n- [x] work with people who are very experienced / skilled\n\n- [x] have good health insurance / benefits\n\n- [ ] make X amount of money\n","funding_links":[],"categories":[],"sub_categories":[],"project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fwinter-code%2Fgoals","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fwinter-code%2Fgoals","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fwinter-code%2Fgoals/lists"}