List 100
Inspired from Chip Huyen.
Things I want to do before I Die. https://huyenchip.com/list-100/
Cool things that I need to build:
- Be karpathy like, record videos and get known for those videos (i am already starting that, but not doubling down necessarily on quality)
- Host cool events
Robot fighting entertainment is cool, but that ain’t changing the world.
- 100k subs on youtube
- Becoming the best engineer in the world
- Focused quite broadly on electrical and mechanical in first year. However, really started focusing on robotics in second year.
- Become the best researcher in the world
- Get a girlfriend
- Meet my heroes and work with them (though I don’t know if we would have interesting conversation, because it would be very technical talk, I think I would want to collaborate with them)
- Meet with the YouTubers I Watched
- Andrej Karpathy
- Elon Musk
- Become famous so I can meet my heroes and work with them. Essentially dm them and they will always answer back
- Have a close circle of friends where I admire everyone in that circle
- Be physically fit (six pack)
- Spend a month at a retreat and figure out the meaning of life. Figure out if religion is a myth or not. I don’t understand how so many people can just believe in a religion specifically.
- Intern at Tesla
- Did that, but not on autopilot team
- Work at a quant firm and understand what the wolf of wall street is like (pending done)
- Work at SpaceX
- Live in China for at least 3 months
- Travel the world to compete in cool technology competitions (f1, drone racing, etc.)
- Become a Private Pilot
- i was glider pilot but that doesn’t count
- Work on the Apple Vision Pro
- Become the #1 in the world at something
- Change the world with a breakthrough invention
- Buy a porshe 911
- Hike half-dome in yosemite (done in 2025)
- Learn to drive manual
- Flash v4 for climbing?
- Have $1 million in the bank
- Shoot under 80 for golf
- Currently shooting like 100
- Master a new language
- Get married
- Have kids
- Run a marathon
- I ran a half-marathon twice
- Do crossfit
- Do hyrox
- Run side business that makes 100k
- Become a profitable poker player
Intellectual side quests: 27. Geo build: flags + outlines + capitals + writing systems + Geoguessr 28. Travel build: airports + airlines + currencies + transit maps 29. Memorize Deck of Cards in under 5 minutes - i can do it in 50 mins 30. 1000 digits of pi 31. 2 number digit multiplication super fast