[📝] Today Was #173: Restarting Reading After a Long Time

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A day when I restarted reading after a long time and recovered the breathing rhythm of thought.

• Original: http://blog.naver.com/hyeogikarp/223979441377
• Naver published at: 2025/08/22 13:12 KST
• Original category: Today’s proof

Original

🗓️ Date: 2025.8.21 Thu

Goals: 0/0

To-dos: 2/2

Habits: 4/4

Bets: 0

🔂-🎯 Goal Management Routine System

Lifetime Goals

• [Life RPG]

• 🎯 Reach more than 1 million monthly active users (MAU)

Goals for 2025

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• 🎯 Draft the Life RPG plan

• 🎯 Think through platform-related business and revenue models

• 🎯 Consider a B2B pivot

• 🎯 Market research: planning document, included apps, business and revenue models, … (+ AI)

• 🎯 Validate core hypotheses: collect materials on the effectiveness of gamification

• 🎯 Survey

• 🎯 Organize hypothesis-related materials in Notion Workspace

• 🎯 Temporary roadmap (not final): develop at least five built-in apps (modules) for the Life RPG platform

• ✅ 2025.08

  iD Note

• A gamification app that stores academy/PT lesson records and lets users gain experience and level up through attendance checks, homework, and more

• 🎯 2025.09

  Oharu (Today Was)

• A daily-life gamification app with an internal social feature for setting today’s goals and sharing completion status with friends

• 🎯 2025.10

  Pianolic

• A music gamification app for managing piano practice records and collecting practiced pieces and albums

• 🎯 2025.11

  Running Party

• A running gamification app that tracks running records and offers running matching with nearby users

• 🎯 2025.12

  Auto Vibe

• An education gamification app that gathers tips and lessons on automation tools and vibe coding and suggests learning guidelines for each user’s goal

• 🎯 2026.01

  Open the Life Store

• Officially open the Life Store, the platform’s core. Users can buy app access rights in the store, and developers can register new apps.

• 🎯 2026.02

  Apply for the Preliminary Startup Package

• Apply for the government-supported Preliminary Startup Package to validate business potential and secure support for platform growth and stable operation.

• [Reading]

• 🎯 Models - Mark Manson

• 🎯 Fail Fast, Fail Often - John Krumboltz · Ryan Babineaux

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 14.5 kg (89.5 kg -> 75 kg)

August Goals

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• Oharu (Today Was)

• 🎯 Write PRD

• [Reading]

• 🎯 Models - Mark Manson

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 4.5 kg (89.5 kg -> 85.0 kg)

Goals for the Third Week of August

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• Oharu (Today Was)

• 🎯 Write PRD (a daily-life gamification app with an internal social feature for setting today’s goals and sharing completion status with friends)

• [Reading]

• 🎯 Models - Mark Manson: 337/337

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 2.5 kg (89.5 kg -> 87.0 kg)

Today’s Goals (⚠️ Required)

• ✅ Models: 263/337

• ✅ Fail Fast, Fail Often: 43/373

🔂-📌 To-do Management Routine System

Today’s To-dos (⚠️ Required)

• None

🔂-♾️ Habit Management Routine System

Today’s Habits

• ✅ Strength: At least one strength I discovered in myself today

• I recognize the importance of reading and practice it somehow, even through reading groups.

• ✅ Gratitude: At least one thing I was grateful for today

• Grateful to the reading group members who shared meaningful conversation, even though the time was short.

• ✅ Exercise: at least 10 minutes of cardio/strength training

• ✅ Routine: Check today’s goals / to-dos / habits

🔂-💸 Bet Management Routine System

Ongoing Bets (⚠️ Required)

• Yo-yo recovery and 50,000 won recovery challenge (🏆 Reward: +50,000 won)

• By 9.1: 89.5 kg -> 85.0 kg

• 8.18: 89.5Kg

• 8.19: 88.6Kg

• 8.20: 87.3Kg

• 8.21: 87.5Kg

🤔 Brief Reflection

I restarted reading after a really long time.

In particular, I am rereading ‘Models,’ which I had already been reading, from the beginning of the bookmarked chapter, and it feels fresh.

As it connected with a series of recent experiences, I realized many new things, even though this was definitely the material I had read most recently.

As expected, humans are creatures of forgetting.

So reading widely and rereading multiple times must be important…

Today’s trigger for reading was attending a reading group social gathering on Munto.

These days, attending various gatherings on Munto seems to be helping me a lot in many ways.

As expected, people change by meeting people.

Going forward, I will probably attend many gatherings centered on reading groups whenever possible.

And maybe it would be okay for me to host a gathering myself.