These are some projects that I’m either working on or planning to work on in the near future, roughly ordered by time. I use the term projects relatively liberally, so this might not be what you would otherwise expect. See Open Questions for more future projects I want to work on or want others to work on.
Now (Read as 2025 Goals List)
- Generally being more technical → last year was the year of learning+curiosity+wonder for me. This year is the year of doing.
- Lots of cool projects in RL, hopefully finding a way to do budding “real” research in some field to confirm that it’s something I’m interested in for the future
- USACO Plat
- Building an organization that can consistently help drive intelligence, curiosity, and agency in the New York area
- Building (hopefully) the best high school hackathon in the US outside of the official Hack Club ones → dream: 48 hours, tons of workshops, sick venue, community built (see Outernet) sometime this year or early next year
- Spinning off of this w/ Buildspace-like summer events, You-Ship-We-Ships, and an extensive grant program for super cool projects
- Raising enough money to make the organization last (we are not doing too hot on money right now)
- Writing
- Cleaning up these notes substantially
- Flesh out a ton of these posts and get them onto the blog
- Misc Learning
- about econ and history (see next section)
- about Game Theory
- more in Quantum Computing
- Get much better at guitar solos
- Generally getting my ideas on social infrastructure to hit the real world (report coming July 2026)
- Reading
Important Past Projects
- Getting to USACO Silver
- Really going deep in deep learning over the last 7 months
- Arena.education
- Karpathy’s Zero to Hero
- Fast.ai’s Practical Deep Learning for Coders
- Getting to the 6th of 9 rock guitar levels on Trinity Rock in ~2.5 years of learning guitar
- Community-Building Stuff
- Helping organize a January 2024 teen hackathon at TeenHacks LI
- Organizing a January 2025 with better vibes, cooler prizes, and more focus on creating a “Road-to-Damascus” moment that sparks sustained ambition to do cool projects (hopefully not even just in STEM)
- Using the same organization to start a number of other things to help with that “sustained ambition” part
- Monthly Hackathons
- Grants for cool projects
- Using the same organization to start a number of other things to help with that “sustained ambition” part
- Organizing a January 2025 with better vibes, cooler prizes, and more focus on creating a “Road-to-Damascus” moment that sparks sustained ambition to do cool projects (hopefully not even just in STEM)
- Re-vamping my coding club entirely
- Helping organize a January 2024 teen hackathon at TeenHacks LI
- Writing
- A blog post on education reform I’m quite proud of → took me quite a bit of research and thinking and re-writing
- Setting up this knowledge garden (not technically difficult but seeding this site with notes took quite a while)
- 40-110 WPM lol
Future
- Learning (if you want to run a study group for any of these, I’d love that)
- Economics: https://guzey.com/education/courses/#economics
- Marginal Revolution University Principles of Micro
- Marginal Revolution University Principles of Macro
- Columbia University Economics of Money and Banking
- University of Michigan Model Thinking
- History: https://guzey.com/education/courses/#history
- Search
- Cybersec
- More in Quantum Computing (have just read Quantum Country)
- Deeper in calculus and linear algebra.
- Rn I only know enough calculus to implement very basic backprop with scalars by hand and enough linear algebra to understand matrix multiplication.
- Economics: https://guzey.com/education/courses/#economics
- Build a relatively detailed prototype of DK to get better at design and frontend development
- Build out some rough prototypes of a Spaced everything app
- Release an EP of small guitar pieces and solos
Updated 1/1/2025.