On my plane ride from studying abroad in Shanghai back to UCLA for graduation, I got carried away wondering what would be a life I’d be proud of living - so here’s my resulting bucket list. I try to keep this updated from periodically. If you want to try doing any of the items on this list with me, let me know!

Life

  • Qualify for Boston Marathon or break a 2:56 marathon
  • Complete a 100-mi ultra-marathon
  • Complete an iron man triathlon
  • Get married (April 2023) and raise 2 happy kids
  • Buy my parents a house
  • Perform in Saturday Night Live
  • Open a cocktail bar or host a well-known cocktail series
  • Own a knitted cap Cryptopunk
  • Create my own streetwear influenced running clothes for fun
  • Skydive (Summer’13)
  • Run a marathon (June 13, 2015+)
  • Complete an olympic triathlon (September 25, 2017+)
  • Buy a house (Oakland in 2016)
  • Become a morning person
  • Learn to snowboard and carve! (January 2018!)

Cities

  • Live internationally for a year in Hong Kong, Shanghai, or Singapore
  • Settle down in …?
  • Los Angeles (2010 – 2013)
  • Shanghai (2013 – 2014)
  • Seattle (2014 – 2016)
  • Oakland (2016 – 2020)
  • Travel for work (2017 - 2018)
  • New York (2020 – 2024)
  • San Francisco (2024 – Present)

Travel

  • Experience the night views of: SF, LA, NY, Chicago, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Beijing, Toronto, Tokyo, Bangkok, Seoul, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo
  • Party in: LA, SF, NY, Vegas, Shanghai, Tokyo, HK, Amsterdam, Rio, Miami, Ibiza, and Bangkok
  • Trek in Banff, Jasper, Patagonia, and Everest Basecamp
  • Participate in Yacht Week before 40
  • Attend a summer Olympic track meet, basketball game, and table tennis match!
  • Jungle safari in South Africa and trekking in Cape Town
  • See the Greek Acropolis and fake perform an act in a theater
  • See the Northern Lights from Alaska or Norway
  • Have a butterbeer in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
  • Run up and down the Great Wall (Summer’14)
  • See the Coliseum and Pantheon (went to Rome with my brother in 2016!)
  • Try going on dates internationally (Shanghai 2014 + Taipei 2018)
  • Blow a month’s paycheck on streetwear and see anime things in Tokyo (Oct’18)
  • Yell at the top of my lungs at Machu Picchu (Aug’19)
  • Live in the Amazon rainforest (Aug’19)
  • Cute picnic near the Eiffel Tower and act mature at the Louvre (Aug’22)

Education and Career

  • Become fluent in Mandarin (conversationally), Spanish, and French
  • Be comfortable with SQL (2014), front-end (Typescript in 2023), and back-end engineering.
  • Read 30 (2013), 50 (2014), and 100 books in a year
  • Try founding a company (2023)
  • Reach 1M+ revenue in a company I founded
  • Experience an IPO or acquisition for a company I founded
  • Build a city in some avenue (startup, politics, government)
  • Maintain a legit Substack and meme account
  • Work in Analytics (2014)
  • Work in BizOps (2016)
  • Work in Product (2018)
  • Work in an early-stage co finding product market fit (2020)
  • Attend UCLA and Stanford (no desire for b-school anymore)
  • Experience an IPO (December 21st, 2020; Go Opendoor!)