Dreams

List of things I would like to do, learn and achieve in life

It is write up of things I would like to do, learn and achieve in my life. I know that it won’t be possible to realize all of them, but I think there is a value in stating explicitly the dreams we have. When I discussed throughout my life about hypothetical science-fiction scenario of significantly prolonged life (or “immortality”), I couldn’t understand why some people claimed that 200-300 old years life would be boring. There is so much to do, so much to see! Well, nonetheless, there are things I would like to do in this short life. Some of them could be more graspable to me, some are aspirational for underdetermined future, but I won’t be making any classification for this list. I will be updating it with new dreams and hopefully crossing the realized ones too. Order is more or less accidental, but if there are some groups of dreams I could order them in the order I want to achieve them.

This note is inspired by similar by rishikeshs.

  1. Travel across all cardinal directions of India (and Northeast).
  2. Learn to play a musical instrument.
  3. Compose music piece.
  4. Create fragment shader art.
  5. Publish science fiction short story in professional magazine.
  6. Write poetry, something old school with rhythm, rhyme, metrum, not free verse.
  7. Write a book, most likely science fiction as well.
  8. Learn Malayalam.
  9. Learn Tamil.
  10. Learn Hindi.
  11. Make small indie game, if possible narrative with literary qualities.
  12. Create proper full stack project, with backend and database.
  13. Learn Lean proof assistant and write non-trivial proof in it.
  14. Create numerical exoplanet simulation model - climate and geophysical model, but could go in more speculative directions.
  15. Create worldbuilding speculative evolution project, the best would be aligning it with above project.
  16. Learn any handcraft - I would like to learn creating some artifacts with my hands.
  17. Contribute significantly to at least 5 Wikipedia articles.
  18. Make a podcast.