Inspired by Chip Huyen. Things I want to do before I die soon. Can I do all these right now?

• Live for six months in a small coastal village.
• Run a non-profit that funds animal cognition research.
• [continued...] Use AI/LLMs to decode cat communication.
• Publish a poetry collection/book.
• Craft debut collection on a 1950s typewriter.
• Self learn classical composition.
• Write a science fiction novel.
• Build an evolution simulator (target: SF authors (?I don't know if a good idea) to model idea propagation in alien or future species.
• Become the first author of a paper at a top-tier ML conference
• Teach a graduate-level math course.
• Chat with frontier research labs like Periodic Labs, Vicarious, and Physical Intelligence.
• Start a company
• Try voice artistry for children audiobooks
• Buy my first car and go on a long solo road trip
• Spend autumn in Jeju Island
• Learn to cook Hyderabadi biryani.
• Become a parent.
• Take my entire family on an international trip to Turkey.
• Go on Himalayan treks during winter (snow!!!)
• Return to the same treks in spring, when snow marries GREEN alpine meadows.
• Go snorkeling in the Red Sea.
• Get scuba diving certified.
• Learn to ski.
• Try figure skating.
• Train intensively in Muay Thai for a month in Thailand.
• Train Kung Fu in Shaolin temple.
• Pick up horse riding again and participate in a local event.
• Earn a PhD in astrophysics.
• Publish a Python package
• Start a small independent research lab.
• Take a walk in the rain.
• Live in NYC.
• Have an apartment with a direct sunset view of the Manhattan skyline.
• Open a seaside bookstore.
• Go to a pure white sand beach
• Camp in a desert and stargaze
• Go to Redwood National Park
• Learn to salsa and perform once with a partner on stage.
• Master the keyboard and record a full instrumental EP.
• Train as a professional shooter and compete at a state-level event.
• Visit Machu Picchu
• Go sailing in the Mediterranean.
• Travel across China and definitely to Chongqing.
• Visit Makkah again.
• Visit Golden Temple in Amritsar and serve langar.
• Live in a Scottish village
• Visit Ireland.
• Live in the Faroe Islands on a cliffside cabin.
• Visit Antarctica on a cruise.
• Set up a home theatre
• Redesign an entire house interior
• Produce a song.
• Solve for senior living/ design spaces.
• Learn to play Confession w/ Violin.
• Learn to play the only music that puts me to sleep to (1) and (2)
• Start a podcast with a friend.
• Stream on Twitch
• Vlog travel.
• Build something to track financial health.
• Stay in a bedouin camp at Petra
• Sit under a weeping willow
• Study physics full-time
• Play competitive karuta or start a club for it (outside of Japan).
• Build a roll-off roof observatory
• Learn celestial navigation, ideally through a hands-on course.
• Learn the foundations of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
• Solve a Rubik's cube in under ninety seconds.
• Formalize a small theorem in Lean.
• Solve 100 Project Euler problems.
• Study quantum computing deeply enough to implement Shor's and Grover's algorithms.
• Build a small quantum circuit simulator from scratch.
• Learn sign language well enough to hold basic conversations.
• Read one novel in translation from each continent.
• Host a tiny private salon for art, poetry, and piano.
• Build Reliquary Studio into a living archive of paintings, poems, music, and objects.
• Design jewelry pieces that feel like relics from an alien sea.
• Collaborate with an artist to make my first wearable art object.
• Visit planetariums and observatories, and keep a proper astronomer's notebook.
• See the Milky Way from a dark sky reserve.
• Host a reading circle around one difficult yet enriching book.
• Rescue as many cats as possible.

I look forward to feeling largely incapable and capable of all things large.