Just found a file called BucketList.txt from 2011, and I've done 3/5 things on it and feel that the other two are well within my capability if I wanted to but I'm not sure I actually *do*. ◻do a TED talk ◻publish a book ☑release a CD ☑found a company ☑go to burning man
Revisiting a 2011 bucket list
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TED seems like an arbitrary side quest to me now. It might happen incidentally in the course of me doing other interesting things and meeting interesting people, but if it doesn't that feels fine. Could at some point be instrumentally useful for pointing attention at something.
It seems fairly likely I'll write book-length things over the next decade, but I'm likely to make them be primarily online, so they can be: - less linear in structure - easily deep-referenced eg here on twitter - edited as I learn new things! 👇
I released a CD in 2012. That's actually related to how I came across BucketList.txt... I was looking to see if I still had the Reason audio files if I wanted to remix/remaster the tracks. maleidoscope.bandcamp.com/album/the-mind…
I founded a company in 2013: complice.co, a goal-oriented productivity app. It's bootstrapped & still just me, which is just the way I like it. I get to spend my time doing what I want, not responsible to employees nor VCs. It helps other people do meaningful things!
And I've been to Burning Man 4 out of the last 5 years! Not going this year because the last couple years were really stressful putting on a theme camp with messy social dynamics and it's time for a break. In future? Maybe. Kinda sick of dust so maybe regional burns.
Anyway, cool ☑. I guess I need a new bucketlist.txt Here's a few ideas of things that feel like they're implicitly on there already: ◻go indoor skydiving ◻see the aurora borealis ◻relatedly, experience a 24h day by being way north near summer solstice
These things don't feel particularly important. Everything that's important feels way too nuanced, improvisational, and interpersonally-connected to try to pin down to a few-word summary or to say "this is what *I* want to do"