list 100

Inspired by Chip Huyen’s List 100, here is the list of ~100 (more or less) things I want to do before I die.

Progress as of Jan 25, 2023.

🚧 Learn French

✅ Live in another country: lived in US for almost 2 years for my master’s

🔜 Start a nonprofit organization

🔜 Write a book

🔜 Be in a movie/commercial

✅ Become the first author of a paper at a top-tier conference: there are a few @CoRL’22 and @ICML’22

🔜 Get published on a major news outlet

🚧 Read 1000 books (a few done so far 🙁)

🔜 Teach a graduate-level course

🔜 Start a company

🔜 Author a patent

✅ Fall in love: in love since January 2014

🔜 Build my own home

🔜 Have a salad from my own garden

🔜 Become a parent

✅ Get married to someone I love: got married in September 2021 😍

🔜 Go on a trip overseas with my whole family

🔜 Take a hot-air balloon ride

🔜 Be in a submarine

🔜 Participate in a triathlon

🔜 Run a marathon

✅ Scuba dive: did it when visiting small islands on southern Iran

🔜 Learn to ski

🔜 Surf in Hawaii

🔜 Become a pilot

✅ Learn to drive a car: got my driving license right at 18 yo

🔜 Get a PhD

🚧 Body transformation

🔜 Attend Pink Floyd’s concert (Muse are also fine!)

🔜 Have a pet horse

🔜 Publish a Python package: did so in Golang: GoFaceRec, but not python yet

🔜 Start a scholarship to support underprivileged kids

✅ Volunteer 1000 hours to help others: helping kids with cancer

🔜 Eat at a 3 Michelin star restaurant

🔜 Host someone from Couchsurfing

🔜 Couchsurf in a foreign country

✅ Hitchhike: the path I hitchhiked

🔜 Sleep in a castle

🔜 Sleep outside on the beach, under the sky

🔜 Go on an African safari

🔜 Camp in a desert

🔜 See auroras

✅ Learn to play a music instrument: started playing guitar at 15 yo

🔜 Experience zero gravity

🔜 Work in a casino

🔜 Do stand-up

🔜 Travel Southeast Asia

🔜 Spend at least a month in Western Africa

🔜 Hike Los Andes

🔜 Visit Machu Picchu, Peru

🔜 Sail around the Caribbean

🔜 Eat sushi in Japan

🔜 Travel around Eastern Europe

🔜 Stay with an Amazonian tribe

✅ Plant a tree and watch it grow: June 2023, planted a bitter orange tree in my in-laws garden

🔜 Visit an Amish community

🔜 Visit Vatican

🔜 Visit London and stay in The Savoy Hotel

🔜 Visit Sicily

🚧 Visit 100 countries: 3% done (USA, Turkey, Armenia)

🔜 Go to either South Pole or North Pole

🔜 Climb Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt

🔜 Climb Great wall, China

🔜 Hike to Everest base camp

🔜 Burning Man, the US

🔜 Carnival in Brazil

🔜 Watch a Broadway show in New York

🔜 Laos’ new year

🔜 Watch bullfight in Spain

🔜 Sit on a jury

🔜 Watch a football game at Stamford Bridge

🔜 Visit Googleplex

🔜 Speak at TEDx or TED

🔜 Meet a prince or princess

✅ See a comet: here is a photo I took with my phone from the NEOWISE comet in Corvallis, OR, USA

🔜 Open my own restaurant

🔜 Watch Monaco’s F1 in person

🔜 Eat pizza in Naples

🔜 Visit Louvre

🔜 Go on a cruise ship

🔜 Learn how to do origami

🔜 See cherry blossoms (Sakura) in Japan

🚧 Mentoring 10 people to start working on AI (see here: get in touch)

🔜 Have my portrait painted

✅ Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month: did so. it was terribly itchy

🔜 Try out vegetarianism for some time

🔜 Watch the Wimbledon’s final

🔜 Terme di Saturnia in Italy

✅ Witness a solar eclipse

✅ Start my own podcast: almost, my friends and I rant about stuff (in Persian)

🔜 Start my own farm

🔜 Go to Mars

and more …