And I might start reading a Go book. Any suggestions for a 7k-8k?

I dunno, sounds pretty good. Though I wonder about limiting yourself to "serious games". If playing "seriously" makes you filter yourself, they might not help you get very far.

But if that's not a problem for you, sounds good!

I don't know if time is limiting the amount of games you can play but 12 is a little on the low side imo.

Attack and Defense and Tesuji are in my opinion the only two textbooks you need on your way to Shodan ; )

I don't know if time is limiting the amount of games you can play but 12 is a little on the low side imo. Playing games is such a good way to get better (If they are serious, and you learn from them by reviewing ofc), that it takes precedence over things like go books and lectures. If you read go books and listen to lectures, you may know an awful lot about theory, but it won't help if that theory can't be applied in practice. That's the significance of playing games.

It helps you practice, and the more practice you get, the faster you will improve.

First, you acquire some piece of theoretical knowledge from a lecture or a chapter from a go book, then you play games to help integrate this knowledge into your game. If I read a good book on go theory, like an opening book, I can't think of how slowly I would improve if I didn't take a time out from reading in between the different concepts presented in the book, to play games in order to solidify the theoretical knowledge I gained.

It's a little bit like a cup of tea. You prepare the tea and pour it into a cup, the tea is the knowledge and preparation means reading a chapter of a book or watching a lecture or something. But if you don't drink the tea (playing games), the tea will just go cold and be of no use to you whatsoever.

(Note, you can also gain some piece of theoretical knowledge from just playing, which means just playing and reviewing, is better than ONLY reading theoretical go books or ONLY watching lectures.)

Thinking about it in the above manner will probably help you improve faster.

If you can spare the time, this is the way to go. (I think).

12 serious games a week on the low side? I can't manage more than 3 or 4, since I don't have so many uninterrupted time chunks. For me a serious game lasts at the very least 30 minutes, and can go up to 1h30 with a review later. Even with 45 minutes (30 minute game + 15 minute review) would make 12 games take 9 hours a week, which is not a small amount of time to devote to Go.

Well, this actually isn't a limit. I'd be playing more if I played 12 serious games a week. My biggest problem has been not playing often enough, and that's one of the things I'd like to fix. So I figure 12 serious games a week will equal 48 a month. I'm not saying I can't go over that total, but I definitely don't want it to be less.

Most of the time, you're better off with 2-3 10-20 minute games than 1 30 minute game + review.

Numsgil, 10000 go problems from 10k to dan sounds absolutely ridiculous. If you need that many, you're not doing it right. You need to mix it up with playing games too. So far I've solved about 2000 go problems, some being opening, endgame and middlegame problems from the graded go problems set... and I'm 1kyu on KGS. So you see ... solving 10000 go problems to get to dan level seems a little ridiculous to me