Ask HN: What are your long-term goals?

TL;DR: I don't have long-term goals. I am setting short-term goals (at most a decade) and then re-evaluate my life purposes and begin again.

I don't really have goals longer that one decade from now. I don't really know what I want to have by the age of 80(im currently 29) so I am not concentrating there. I do know a few things I would like though and those are money and to still be working with interesting things that I love doing (programming, business running, hobbies, family, friends). So what I do is I set short-term goals that are making me work towards those life purposes. I am aware though that these purposes may change so I wouldn't like to work for two decades on making money and then suddenly realize that money was not what I really wanted.

So I set a goal 10 years ago and was stating that I wanted by the age of 30 to be a highly-paid (to fulfil my need for money) software engineer (to fulfill my need to do something that I love doing). I am very happy with my progress so far and I am still waiting for the time that I would make piece with myself and sit down to set the next goal which will also be short-term, something like "build a buisness by the age of 35 and marry your girl".

Reduce health care spending in the US by 50% without decreasing quality of life or life expectancy. Started a company that is trying to achieve those goals.

To establish freedom and justice in the information age.

Particularly, to end the American prison system and the policies of drug prohibition.

The main goal: Make more art. Specifically, the kind I call "art you have to plug in" -- kinetic art sculptures that include light, motion, and interactivity. I work towards achieving it by having my own company with a workshop full of the tools (3D printers, CNC mills, soldering stations, etc.) needed to make the art. The company uses those same tools to make products that solve problems for other companies. A portion of profits goes into funding the art projects. The technical skills needed to make the for-profit products are the same ones needed to make the art.

To follow the Ten Commandments, to be a productive and a creative person and to contribute positively to society.