Bucket Lists - 2024

Each year I put together an annual bucket list of things I would like to do throughout the year. The exercise makes it easier to capture the joy of being a kid again and makes it easier to nurture a sense of curiosity.

2024’s Guiding Why

• Maximize optionality. Live a life where I can focus on family, fitness, and work when and how I want.

Overarching Theme and Focus

• Limit work, maximize health, family, and income
• Provide amazing value for LC Design customers
• Cut the non-essential

What is an ideal day in 2024?

• Getting up early, going for a trail run, working for a few hours and then spending the rest of the day with family.

The List

Food

• Make Limoncello
• Make Moroccan Rghaif
• Make home made pasta
• Make Roman flatbread pizza street food
• Make Detroit style pizza
• Dehydrate oranges and lemons for drinks
• Make Cherry Pie with cherries from farm
• Make a Tagine
• Make authentic ramen
• Make miso soup
• Make wooden espresso board
• Make zatar spice
• Make other middle eastern bakery items
• Make Croissants

Friends & Family

• Take kiddo to flight museum in San Martin
• Take kiddo to Mt Hamilton and Lick Observatory
• Take friends to Bear Valley
• Go on a ski trip with John and Katie
• Attend Sea Otter Classic again
• Move to Oregon
• Finish bike park
• Teach kiddo how to ski [in progress]
• Go for a run with my dad in Point Reyes
• Build a wheelie box
• Learn how to weld
• Make children’s book using AI

Outdoors & Fitness

• Run Mt Diablo
• Complete ultra
• Complete 100 mile run
• Complete another bike race
• Ski down the bowl from the top of the Mt. Reba ridge
• Ski granite area off of Koala access road
• Ski Osborne Ridge
• Go snowmobiling in powder
• Snowmobile to Lake Alpine
• Run 100 miles of the Bay Area Ridge Trail
• Bike the Flow trail in Santa Cruz again
• Bike the Brail trail in Santa Cruz
• Buy a gravel bike
• Take pack raft to Pajaro River and ocean
• Get a flat stomach or six pack - “Once a Runner” fit
• Complete a running or bike race in Santa Barbara

Travel

• Visit San Francisco
• Visit San Luis Obispo
• Visit Pinnacles
• Visit Big Sur
• Visit Calaveras Dome
• Visit Half Moon Bay
• Visit Yosemite
• Visit white deer at mt Madonna
• Visit Monterey and run along coast
• Take a train-based vacation (maybe Bend to Portland)

Giving Back

• Attend a trail work session
• Take on a second mentee
• Commit to open source (I.e supabase or next)

Work

• Attend tech event in SF

Thought

• Read the Bible [in progress]
• Read the Quran [in progress]
• Read the Torah