Emad's Bucket List 🌍

Hello, dear readers!

AI Whiteboard 💡 is and will always be free. I believe in sharing knowledge freely and openly. But if you've found value in my posts and want to give back, I invite you to take a look at my Bucket List below. This list is a collection of dreams, goals, and aspirations that I have. If you have any insights, connections, or resources that could help me accomplish these items, I'd be immensely grateful.

Let's embark on this journey together!

Professional

• Build something amazing that outlasts me with a small team I love working with

• Become one of top leaders in the AI space

• Write a professional book

• Give a TED Talk

• Get interviewed by Lex Friedman

• Become a thought leader in Tech/Business space (1M followers on Twitter)

• Become a board member of a public company

• Work for a Top Tier Tech company

• Work at a aerospace company and build real things

• Start own ventured backed business (raise $1M+)

Travel & Adventures

• Climb Yosemite with my kids

• Hike the JMT

• Hike Mt. Kilimanjaro

• Go to the base camp of K2

• Visit the great barrier reef

• Take sailing trip on a catamaran

• Attend an F1 race in person and meet some of the drivers

• Fly to Space

• Watch a big rocket launch

• Snowboard in Colorado

• Do a family whitewater rafting trip in the Colorado river

• Visit the Great Wall of China

• See the Northern Lights in Iceland

• Hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu

• Go on a safari in Africa

• Rim to Rim Hike the Grand Canyon

• Sail in the Mediterranean

• Go running in Bangkok

• Visit Petra in Jordan and swim in the dead sea

• Hang gliding in Rio

• Swim with a whale

• Watch the Space Shuttle Launch

• Watch the Concord take off and land

• Watch the Blue Angels

• Fly in a helicopter over Hawaii

• Go Bungee Jumping

• Go Sky Diving

• Cliff jumping

• Hike Mt. Washington

• Hike to the bottom of Grand Canyon and back

• Watch a solar eclipse

Physical Health

• Play beach volleyball at least once a week and get my B rating

• Learn cruise sailing

• Attend a yoga retreat

• Attend a surfing retreat

• Achieve and maintain ideal weight for 1+ year

• Stay alive and healthy to hike with my grandkids

• Run a marathon.

• Habit of Crossfit 4+ times a week

• Win a beach volleyball tournament

Material

• Buy my wife’s dream house

• Buy my parents a comfortable home

• Save enough money for kids' education

• Upgrade our beach house

• Own a beach house

Creative

• Write a best selling book

• Do one comedy set in front of an audience

• Sell one of my art photos

• Start a blog or newsletter

• Take a photography class

Financial

• Achieve financial independence by 50

• Save a certain amount of money

• Become an angel investors in a unicorn startup

Intellectual

• One jigsaw puzzle a month

• Live outside of the US for two years

• Listen to at least 1 book a month

• Get a Masters degree in Engineering

• Get a Masters degree in Business

• One coding project a year no matter what

Mental Health

• Practice mindfulness or meditation at least twice a day

• One hike per month

• Practice gratitude daily

• Attend therapy or counseling at least once a year

• Take family for hajj trip

Relationship

• One date night with Zarish every two weeks

• One Zarish and I trip every year

• Upgrade Zarish’s wedding ring

• Strengthen my relationship with my sister

• Build a strong network of friends

• Reconnect with two old friends every year

• Plan a parents and sister family reunion once a year

• Spend one retreat a year with close friends

• Build deep relationships with my forum-mates

• Throw a life celebration party on a boat for friends and family

• Find my soulmate

• Get married

• Start a family

Giving

• Mentor one new startup a year

• Generate income for 1000+ people

• Teach a university course on entrepreneurship

• Take my mother to Spain

• Donate blood once a year (lasted donated: 2019)

• Start a charity or non-profit in my late brother’s name