30 by 30

The aim of this post is to list 30 things which I would want to do before I turn 30 (I turned 21 yesterday). Got inspired by this and this. So, here goes my list (in no particular order):

• Learn to play Electric Guitar and start my own Rock band
• Write a novel on my philosophy of life (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance style)
• Start a startup incubator (Ycombinator style)
• Start my own (successful) startup
• Go to the moon (I know it sounds crazy!)
• Earn Rs 100 crore (I know this sounds naive!)
• Read thoroughly The Road to Reality
• Publish a paper in Science or Nature
• Reduce India’s poverty by at least 10%
• Produce something creatively viral
• Travel backpacking across Western Europe
• Make a truly creative Artificial Intelligence program that can learn and perhaps pass the Turing Test
• Make a short-and-slick movie that earns more than what it takes to produce it
• Sponsor my parents’ word trip (I really really would want to do this)
• Learn a foreign language (preferably Spanish)
• Live for a year or so in Silicon Valley (doing an MBA/MS at Stanford perhaps?)
• Read entire Calvin and Hobbess collection
• Do Skydiving and Bungee Jumping
• Spend a year or so at MIT AI Lab
• Buy a (small) country (it is not impossible)
• Read all the popular books on Philosophy, Psychology, AI, Sociology, and Cosmology
• (My secret wish) Spend sometime somewhere without spending a penny from my own pocket
• Produce a truly breath taking theory (in the leagues of Theory of Evolution, Relativity and Gravity
• Travel to at least 30 different countries
• Being featured in a good business magazine
• Being admired by businessmen, scientists and students
• Learn to draw better cartoons
• Read and understand the history of philosophy
• Read and learn about world’s religions and mythology
• Make a 40 by 40 list

Hopefully, some of the things will come alive for me. So, life, here I come!

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