Things I want to do before I die. Please let me know if you have any recommendation.
Progress as of Dec 31, 2022: 39.75/91.

  1. ✓ Learn Spanish
  2. ✓ Live in another country
  3. ✓ Start a nonprofit organization
  4. ✗ See my book being sold at an airport outside Vietnam
  5. ✓ Be in a movie/commercial (I’ve actually done this in 3 countries: Vietnam, India, US)
  6. ✗ Become the first author of a paper at a top-tier conference
  7. ✗ Get published on the New Yorker
  8. ✗ Read 1000 books (~50% done)
  9. ✓ Teach a graduate-level course
  10. ✓ Start a company
  11. ✗ Author a patent
  12. ✗ Write for a TV show that I watch
  13. ✓ Fall in love
  14. ✗ Build my own home
  15. ✗ Have a salad from my own garden
  16. ✗ Become a parent
  17. ✗ Be a writer in Paris
  18. ✗ Get married to someone I love
  19. ✓ Go on a trip overseas with my whole family
  20. ✗ Take a hot-air balloon ride
  21. ✓ Be in a submarine
  22. ✗ Swim a mile
  23. ✗ Run a half marathon
  24. ✗ Scuba dive
  25. ✓ Learn to ski
  26. ✓ Surf in Hawaii
  27. ✓ Fly an airplane
  28. ✓ Learn to drive a car
  29. ✗ Get a PhD (in CS, Neuroscience, or Psychology)
  30. ✗ Body transformation
  31. ✓ Dance on stage at a concert (thanks Flo Rida!)
  32. ✗ Ride a horse in Mongolia
  33. ✓ Publish a Python package
  34. ✗ Create my own programming language
  35. ✗ Start a scholarship to support brave young kids
  36. ✗ Volunteer 1000 hours to help to the elderlies
  37. ✗ Work with a publishing house that focuses on math, science, and engineering books
  38. ✓ Take a walk in the rain
  39. ✓ Eat at a 3 Michelin star restaurant
  40. ✓ Ask a stranger out (he said no)
  41. ✓ Invite a stranger to my home
  42. ✗ Sleep in a castle
  43. ✓ Sleep outside on the beach, under the sky
  44. ✓ Go on an African safari
  45. ✓ Camp in a desert
  46. ✗ See auroras
  47. ✓ Learn to salsa
  48. ✗ Learn to play a music instrument (tried 3x)
  49. ✗ Zero gravity
  50. ✓ Work in a casino
  51. ✓ Do stand-up
  52. ✓ Travel Southeast Asia
  53. ✓ Hitchhike across Africa
  54. ✗ Spend at least a month in Western Africa
  55. ✓ Hike Los Andes
  56. ✓ Visit South Omo valley, Ethiopia
  57. ✗ Sail around the Caribbean
  58. ✗ Drink vodka in Russia
  59. ✗ Eat sushi in Japan
  60. ✗ Travel around Eastern Europe
  61. ✓ See Kashmir
  62. ✗ Visit Mecca
  63. ✓ Do Bible tour: Jerusalem, lake of Galilee, Jordan river, Bethlehem, Nazareth
  64. ✗ Stay with an Amazonian tribe
  65. ✓ Visit an Amish community
  66. ✗ Visit Vatican
  67. ✗ Visit Tehran
  68. ✗ Visit Sicily
  69. ✗ Visit 100 countries (~40% done)
  70. ✗ Go to South Pole or North Pole
  71. ✓ Climb Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
  72. ✗ Climb Great wall, China
  73. ✗ Hike to Everest base camp
  74. ✗ Reed Dance, Swaziland
  75. ✗ Burning Man, the US
  76. ✗ Carnival in Brazil
  77. ✓ Watch a Broadway show in New York
  78. ✓ Pashut Festival, Israel
  79. ✓ Laos’ new year
  80. ✗ Watch bullfight in Spain
  81. ✗ Watch a soccer game at Camp Nou (Old Trafford is fine too)
  82. ✓ Visit Googleplex
  83. ✗ Speak at TED
  84. ✗ Meet the Pope
  85. ✗ Meet a prince
  86. ✗ Meet JK Rowling
  87. ✓ See a comet
  88. ✓ Meet Dalai Lama
  89. ✗ Have my own’s ice cream flavor
  90. ~ Be awesome
  91. ~ Be kind