Reclaiming my boyhood

What happens when you hand the steering wheel to the boy in the man?

"Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.” Richard P. Feynman, a famous boy.

• Start a blog (2014)
• Do computer science research (2018)
• Go on a road trip (2019)
• Start a bucket “boyhood” list (2020)
• Learn to ride a bicycle (2020)
• Build a computer (2020)
• Learn to cut my own hair (2020)
• Contribute to Open Source (2020)
  • Karabiner Elements

Build things

• Build a keyboard
• Build a software product
  • Build a mobile app
• Build your own coin
• Build a VR app
• Build a video game
• Build a hardware product
• Read canonical books
  • The Origin of Species
• Study Feynman’s lectures on Physics
• Learn to fly a plane
• MC something
• Do machine learning research
• Sell something
• Raise a dog
• Learn Chinese
• Work a sales job
• Work a service job (or uber)
• Teach a class
• Paint something
• Learn to ice skate
• Learn to skii (well)
• Learn to snowboard
  • Do a snowboarding season in japan (maybe)
• Make a YouTube video
  • Start a YouTube channel
• Start a podcast
• Work in quantitative finance
• Play in the World Series of Poker (WSOP)
• Take acting classes
• Have lucid dreams
• Study/Live in China
• Publish a short story
• Publish sci-fi
• Perform a guitar solo
• Busk
• Work on a data for good project
• Learn to make Chinese food

When it becomes a goal to do all this, you’ve missed the point.