Here is a non-exhaustive, unordered list of the things I want to do before I die.
Progress as of March 2025: 9 out of 26.
- ✔ Climb Half Dome (done in June 2022)
- ✘ Climb Mount Whitney
- ✘ Climb Kilimanjaro
- ✘ Visit Peru and hike to Machu Pichu
- ✘ Visit Tanzania and do a photo safari
- ✘ Visit Australia with my boys
- ✔ Finish the Buddhist training at my local temple (done in 2018)
- ✘ Participate at a weekend Buddhist retreat, I should start with a morning first
- ✘ Practice meditation 3 times a week
- ✔ Start loving to run (I guess I reached this point now)
- ✔ Run an official half marathon, I made it on 11/06/2022, I want to do better in the future
- ✘ Run a marathon, I registered for San Francisco 2025, it’s coming up!
- ✔ Run 10k under 1 hour (my PR as of 9/18/2022 is 59:59, my PR improved so much in 2023 down to 45:20)
- ✘ Learn about Machine Learning and the math behind it
- ✘ Maintain the blog regularly
- ✘ Start to like to wake up early
- ✔ Read at least 20 books per year (done in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023), I set the goal to 70 books in a year in 2022, I barely did it in 2022, I raised the bar to 80 books in 2023 and I did 88! I read 83 books in 2024. I lowered the bar for 2025 to 40 books, as I want to invest more time on podcast to learn more on AI.
- ✘ See Auroras
- ✘ Visit Tibet or Bhutan
- ✘ Photograph an owl (burrowing owl does not count)
- ✔ Weight less than 80 kg, goal achieved for the first time in years, but I want to continue on the way
- ✔ Expand the house with a 2nd floor, done in early 2024!
- ✘ Be thankful
- ✘ Be empathic
- ✘ Be kind
- ✔ Be happy!