User blog comment:Edwin Shade/My Googological Goals For The Year Of 2018/@comment-28606698-20180101205322/@comment-30754445-20180103120323

"Also, it seems like you don't understand xE^ (because your 1st goal says "Understand Saibian's E notation". xE^ gets really complicated after #^^^# (which corresponds to gamma0), and 13 of the incomplete regiment are past #^^^#. So I'd say this goal is very unrealistic"

Why?

The biggest hurdle here is to understand the ordinals is question. Once you're "fluent" with numbers up to φ(1,0,0,0) (=S3), and once somebody points out to you that xE^-notation is simply ordinal notation in disguise, learning it shouldn't be too difficult.

Besides, Edwin already has "understand E-notation" as a goal. If he does this one first and commits to it,, then he'll be ready to start helping with the regiments within a month or two.

Of-course, all the goals on the list here require a serious commitment. If he continues wasting 90% of his time here on reaching some meaningless editing quota and hacking the wikia badge system, he's going to be very disappointed with his progress on actual googology when 2019 arrives...