Things I want to do before I die. Let me know if you have a recommendation. Inspired by Chip Huyen's List 100.

• ❌ Learn Spanish
• ❌ Live in another country
• ❌ Start a nonprofit organization
• ❌ Be in a movie/commercial
• ❌ First author of a paper at a top-tier conference
• ❌ Read 1000 books (~30% done)
• ✅ Teach a graduate-level course
• ✅ Start a company
• ❌ Author a patent
• ❌ Write/be part of a TV show
• ❌ Design and publish a game
• ✅ Fall in love
• ✅ Build a home
• ❌ Have a salad from my garden
• ❌ Become a parent
• ❌ Be a writer on Mountains
• ❌ Trip overseas with my whole family
• ❌ Take a hot-air balloon ride
• ❌ Be in a submarine
• ❌ Swim a mile
• ❌ Run a half marathon
• ❌ Scuba dive
• ❌ Learn to ski
• ❌ Surf in Hawaii
• ❌ Fly an airplane
• ✅ Learn to drive a car
• ❌ Get a PhD (CS, Neuroscience, or Psychology)
• ❌ Body transformation
• ❌ Dance on stage at a concert
• ❌ Create my own programming language
• ❌ Start a scholarship for brave young kids
• ❌ Start a research lab
• ✅ Take a walk in the rain
• ✅ Eat at a Michelin star restaurant (~30% done)
• ❌ Sleep in a castle
• ✅ Sleep outside on the beach, under the sky
• ❌ Go on an African safari
• ✅ Camp in a desert
• ❌ See auroras
• ❌ Learn to salsa
• ❌ Learn to play a music instrument
• ❌ Zero gravity
• ❌ Do stand-up comedy
• ✅ Travel Southeast Asia
• ❌ Hike Los Andes
• ❌ Sail around the Caribbean
• ❌ Eat sushi in Japan
• ❌ Travel around Eastern Europe
• ✅ See Ladakh
• ❌ Stay with an Amazonian tribe
• ❌ Visit Cambodia
• ❌ Visit Tokyo
• ❌ Visit Sicily
• ❌ Visit 50 countries (~40% done)
• ❌ Go to South Pole or North Pole
• ❌ Climb Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
• ❌ Climb Great Wall, China
• ❌ Hike to Everest/Annapurna base camp
• ❌ Reed Dance, Swaziland
• ❌ Burning Man, the US
• ❌ Carnival in Brazil
• ❌ Watch a Broadway show in New York
• ❌ New York New Year
• ✅ Watch bullfight in Spain
• ❌ Speak at TED
• ✅ See a comet
• ❌ Meet Lionel Messi
• ❌ Have my own restaurant
• 🔄 Be awesome
• 🔄 Be kind
• ❌ Raise an animal
• ✅ Bike @150kmph
• ❌ Visit Sengakuji Temple
• ❌ Visit Istanbul
• ❌ Watch El Clásico at Camp Nou
• ❌ Spend a month in Africa
• ❌ Watch Champions League final in stadium
• ❌ Trek to Stampede trail
• ❌ Plant 100 trees (current: 5)
• ❌ Follow the great migration in Africa
• ❌ Spend a week in Amazon Rainforest
• ❌ Catch a reptile
• ❌ Learn morse code
• ❌ Discover a fossil
• ❌ Catch fish on a boat
• ❌ Learn Electrostatics
• ❌ Learn to play keyboard
• ❌ Do 20 handstand pushups
• ❌ Visit Machu Picchu
• ❌ Visit Chichen Itza / Giza
• ❌ Visit Kakadu National Park
• ❌ Go to Imagine Dragons Concert
• ❌ Picture with Lionel Messi
• ✅ Buy Jawa / Benelli / RE / Harley bike
• ✅ Do Bungee
• ❌ Sky-dive

I spend a lot of time thinking about how to live, and occasionally write about it.