I’m a big fan of to-dos and checklists, and I’ve always wanted to create a list of personal side quests to complete in my lifetime. After seeing Chip Huyen’s list, I couldn’t resist making my own.

  1. ❌ Work for a start up with less than 200 employees
  2. ❌ Watch a Lakers game in LA
  3. ❌ Hike the Alps
  4. ❌ Run a half marathon under 2hrs
  5. ❌ Run a full marathon
  6. ❌ Bench 70kgs * 10 clean reps
  7. ✅ Scuba dive (saw a shipwrek 10m deep)
  8. ❌ Work in silicon valley
  9. ❌ Travel across Europe
  10. ✅ Fire a maching gun
  11. ❌ Watch 100m final at the Olympics live
  12. ❌ Visit all seven continents (1/7)
  13. ❌ Learn to surf
  14. ❌ Get featured in a news article
  15. ✅ Visit a concert (The Local Train, Sanam, Sonu Nigam, Divine, Guru, KK, Javed Ali, Papon)
  16. ❌ Write 100 blogs on my website
  17. ✅ Go on a snow trek (Kuari Pass)
  18. ❌ Visit Ladakh
  19. ✅ Fly in a glider
  20. ❌ Visit an F1 race
  21. ❌ Watch Sumo wrestling in Japan
  22. ❌ Make a LinkedIn post that gets 5000 likes
  23. ❌ Read 1000 books starting 1 Jan 2025. 7/1000. List
  24. ❌ Learn a musical instrument decently well.