Checklist

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experiences

  • Adopt a husky and live in a cold country for a while
  • Watch the northern lights
  • Visit every continent
  • Live in a different country for at least a year
  • Go on a solo road trip with no fixed plan
  • Scuba dive in a coral reef
  • Sleep under the stars in a desert

career

  • Become a product manager
  • Build a product that people actually want
  • Start a company
  • Invest in a company that changes an industry
  • Give a talk at a major conference
  • Mentor someone who goes on to do great things
  • Work on something used by millions of people

creative

  • Perform a music gig in front of an audience
  • Write a book
  • Learn a musical instrument well enough to play for friends
  • Make a short film
  • Create something that outlasts me
  • Learn calligraphy
  • Write a poem that moves a stranger

knowledge

  • Learn how to code
  • Learn how to swim
  • Become conversational in three languages
  • Read 1000 books
  • Understand quantum physics well enough to explain it simply
  • Study philosophy formally
  • Learn to cook one perfect dish from ten different cuisines

life

  • Fall in love
  • Build a home that feels like a sanctuary
  • Cook a meal that makes someone cry happy tears
  • Run a marathon
  • Develop a meditation practice that sticks
  • Be at peace with who I am
  • Make a friend in a country I've never been to