Bucket List
Things I'll Do Before I'm Done
10 down, 15 to go
Build
career & content, 6 of 9 done
Get 12,000+ organic LinkedIn followers
done, Jun 2026
Didn't chase followers. My open-source contributions and this portfolio site did the talking.
Get 300+ followers on GitHub
done, Mar 2026
Open-sourced tools I built for myself. Useful code finds its audience.
Get a remote job
done, Jan 2025
A full-time remote role. Same standards as an office, without the commute.
First open-source contribution
done, Dec 2024
Contributed a feature to a popular open-source library. First PR merged, started driving traffic to my GitHub.
Remote work with an international client
done, Sep 2024
A software engineer in San Francisco found me online and started outsourcing work. That first Wise payment in USD turned into an ongoing collaboration.
Build my first application
done, Sep 2023
A notes app with localStorage. Terrible code, but when it worked without a page reload, something clicked.
Write 10 technical deep-dives
Not SEO listicles. Real deep-dives on RSC internals, database indexing, building a bundler from scratch.
Hit 1K stars on a GitHub repo
By building something so useful that a thousand strangers vouch for it.
Ship a product that earns on its own
A SaaS, a tool, anything. Proof that I can create value independent of my time.
Grind
health & personal, 4 of 10 done
Create portfolio website
done, Aug 2024
This site. Every pixel is intentional, every interaction earned its place. The project that ties everything else together.
Go pure vegetarian
done, 2021
No meat, no eggs. No exceptions, no 'just this once.' Years in and don't miss it.
Quit sugar, coffee, and packaged foods
done, 2019
All at once, no cheat days. The hardest part was the first two weeks.
100 pushups in 200 seconds
done!
No breaks, no excuses. Just chest to floor, 100 times, under 3 minutes 20 seconds.
Run a 10K under 60 minutes
Currently can't run 3K without wanting to quit. Sub-60 is the goal. Finishing is the real goal.
Reach a $1 million corpus
Not about the number. About the freedom it buys — the ability to say no to work that doesn't matter.
Read 12 books in a year
Not speed-reading. Actually finishing them. Highlighting, thinking, rereading the good parts.
Learn to swim
Grew up without a pool. It's time. Not just floating — actual laps, actual breathing technique.
Learn a martial art
Boxing, jiu-jitsu, muay thai — something that teaches discipline through getting hit.
Meditate for 30 consecutive days
Longest streak: 11 days. The irony of being too busy to sit still for 10 minutes is not lost on me.
Wander
travel & adventure, 0 of 6 done
Skydiving
My legs shake on balconies. 13,000 feet of freefall. The fear is the point.
Solo travel to another country
No itinerary, no safety net. A place where I don't speak the language. Getting lost on purpose.
See Edinburgh
Old Town closes, a castle on the hill, Arthur's Seat at sunrise. A city that looks like it was built for stories.
Queenstown, New Zealand
Mountains dropping straight into the lake. Hike by day, stars by night — and maybe a bungee jump to prove a point.
Tomorrowland
Boom, Belgium. The main stage at night, a few hundred thousand strangers, and music loud enough to feel in your chest.
Scuba diving
Breathing underwater. Seeing a world that's been there the whole time, just below the surface.
