Aidan's Bucket List of Life
Career
- Secure a patent for an innovation
- Be on the board of a well-known company
- Win a Red Dot Design Award
- Be a successful mentor to help someone
- Get partnerships with big tech companies
- Exit a company
- Receive investment from tier-1 VC
- Have a nice high-level office at HK
- Work with a respectful boss
- Colleague(s) give me a gift of a “World’s Best Boss” mug
- Manage a team of more than 10 people
- Work at McKinsey
- Meet Satya Nadella
Fame
- Have a Wikipedia page about me
- Have a social media post go viral
- Be interviewed for a podcast
- Be invited to a TV show
- Be written in a news paper
Friends & Family
- Have a new & better relationship with my partner
- Support 10+ friends and get a social media shoutout
- Go to Disney World with people who I care and love
- Have a samoyed
I'm really lucky to have the chance to care for a wonderful dog, but it seems like I'm allergic to dog fur.
- Join high school class reunion
- Join university school class reunion
- Have a vocation with my mom in a foreign country
- Arrange a surprise party for someone I love
- Go on a vacation on a remote island with my best friends
- Watch a sunset on the beach with my partner
Impact
- Start a nonprofit DAO to advance Taiwan’s food culture
During Taipei Blockchain Week 2024, I met a guy from Korea who is doing exactly what I want to do. Their project, called GochujangCoin, uses a meme coin to promote traditional Korean red chili paste—loved that!
- Teach a course at NTU
- Create a scholarship fund
- Give a speech on a foreign nation
- Build a product that has 1 million users
- Make open source project that has 1,000+ stars
- Sponsor a world-class open-source conference in Taiwan
- Open a Taiwanese restaurant featuring braised pork rice
- Talk to a country’s president or prime minister
Met and Talked to Taiwan's ex-VP Chen Chien-Jen at Stanford (but technically he is not president or prime minister lol)
Wealth
- Earn a million via entrepreneurship
- Earn a million via investment
- Have a car
- Have one Audi e-Tron GT
- Have at least 3.14 Bitcoin
- Rent a penthouse in New York
- Stay 1 night at a superyacht
- Invest in a startup
- Start an investment fund
- Become financially independent
- Own a collection of something
- Own an original piece of art
- Have a fully automated smart home
- Buy a vacation home in a foreign country
- Have a 12% body fat
Fun
- Experience zero gravity
- Attend the Olympics
- Visit all 7 continents
- Learn to fly a helicopter
- Attend a world cup final
- Drive supercar
- Try scuba diving
- Drive Range Roger through silk road
- Drive through the US Route 66
- Trade my massage session for a good story
- Join 42Geeks
Experience
- Attend a SpaceX rocket launch
- See the Pyramids of Giza
- See the Hamilton show on Broadway
- Live in HK for a few months
- Live in Chicago for a few weeks
- Live in Toronto for a few weeks
- The round-Taiwan trip via bicycle
- Visit Alpes
- Join WEF
- Watch aurora
Understanding of the World
- Learn a new language and use it in a foreign country
Survived Riyadh with just 'hello', 'thanks', and 'let's go' in Arabic :)
- Attend a religious ceremony different from my own
- Get an advanced degree for a social science-related major
- Understand the culture & history of an Asian country, and live there for a while
During my 3-month stay in Riyadh, I unlocked a unique achievement: transforming Uber drivers into my friends. And I learned a lot culture & history stuff from all of my friends here. I also tried to understand Islam's origins through reading.
- Understand the culture & history of a Europe country, and live there for a while
- Understand the culture & history of a South American country, and live there for a while
- Understand the culture & history of an African country, and live there for a while
- Have a deep conversation with a philosopher
- Have a deep conversation with a historian
- Have a deep conversation with an anthropologist
- Have a deep conversation with a physicist
Since Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, I guess I can say that I’ve had many deep (well, maybe not that deep) and long conversations with my co-founder, Chi-Sheng.
- Have a deep conversation with a mathematician
- Have a deep conversation with a sociologist
- Have a deep conversation with an economist
- Listen to another talk given by Syaru Shirley Lin
Hobby
- Participate in a real car racing game
- Learn how to ski
- Ski in Hokkaido
- Take photos in 5 different Japanese city
- Take photos in 10 Asia countries
- Have Photos on a magazine
- Have my own photography exhibition
- Take 10 portraits of strangers
- Learn new massage skills in a foreign country
- See the galaxy through eyes
- Learn to surf
