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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5 Responses to “30 by 30”

  1. Abhilash Ravishankar
    4. June 2008 at 22:42

    First off, belated birthday wishes!
    And secondly, awesome list and wish you all the luck, mate!

  2. Gaurav Mishra
    5. June 2008 at 09:57

    @Paras: Interesting list. So, is everybody really making a 30 by 30 list? I have seen Abhilash’s and yours so far. Maybe, I should do a compilation. :-)

  3. chirag sharma
    6. June 2008 at 12:53

    Interesting huh … :)

  4. Vivek Sonny Abraham
    13. June 2008 at 20:15

    You might want to adjust your Rs. 100 crore for inflation, the way it is going..:P

  5. Shubhendu Trivedi
    22. June 2008 at 18:07

    Ha Ha Interesting. I hope there won’t be a copyright issue if i publish a similar list ;) though it might be less lofty!

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