List 100
Things I want to do before I die. Please let me know if you have any recommendation.
Progress as of May 24, 2026: 26.50/100.
- Move from Janpur village to Bahawalpur for better education
- Enroll in BS Artificial Intelligence at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
- Become Senior Executive Member of the AI Club at IUB
- Complete NAVTTC AI / ML training (Prime Minister's Youth Skills Program)
- Complete 1,600+ hours in Pak AI Vision / CAI (Silicon Valley track)
- Get a PhD in CS, Neuroscience, or AI-adjacent research
- Teach a graduate-level AI course at a university
- Read 100 books on AI, systems, and product (~35% done)
- Start a company (ZorceX: AI automation, agents, and product builds)
- Ship production RAG and LLM systems for international clients
- Work as an AI Engineer on Upwork with global clients
- Work as an AI Automation Specialist on Fiverr
- Build and deploy a full-stack AI portfolio with Zeeshan Assistant
- Master LangChain, LangGraph, and agent orchestration in real projects
- Learn production MLOps: FastAPI, observability, and cloud deploy
- Mentor students through AI Club workshops and community events
- Become first author on a paper at a top-tier AI / ML conference
- Author a patent for an AI system or agent workflow
- See my technical writing featured in a major AI publication
- Publish a book on shipping LLM applications to production
- See a ZorceX-built product used by 100,000+ users
- Start a research lab focused on production AI and agents
- Start a scholarship fund for brave students from rural Punjab
- Get involved in a publishing house for math, science, and engineering books
- Volunteer 1,000 hours helping elders in my community
- Create my own programming language
- Publish a Python package used by other engineers
- Compete in 10+ hackathons (MIT IAP, IBM watsonx, lablab.ai, and more)
- Participate in MIT Global AI Hackathons (IAP seminar track)
- Win a major international AI hackathon
- Speak at TED or a major AI conference
- Visit Googleplex and major US AI labs in person
- Meet a founder I deeply admire in AI
- Write publicly on Medium and Substack about AI engineering
- Get published in the New Yorker (or equivalent long-form outlet)
- Write for a tech show or documentary I actually watch
- Design and publish an indie game
- Have my own ice cream flavor (serious life goal)
- Fall in love
- Build a home (a simple one, but it's mine)
- Have a salad from my own garden
- Become a parent
- Be a writer in Paris for a month
- Go on a trip overseas with my whole family
- Body transformation: consistent fitness for a full year
- Be awesome
- Be kind
- Take a hot-air balloon ride
- Be in a submarine
- Swim a mile in open water
- Run a half marathon
- Scuba dive in clear water
- Learn to ski
- Surf in Hawaii
- Fly an airplane
- Learn to drive a car
- Dance on stage at a concert
- Ride a horse in Mongolia
- Do stand-up comedy once (terrifying)
- Work in a casino for a day (curiosity)
- Experience zero gravity
- Learn to play a music instrument (tried once: retry)
- Learn to salsa
- Take a walk in the rain without rushing anywhere
- Eat at a 3 Michelin star restaurant
- Ask a stranger out (they said no: still counts)
- Invite a stranger to my home (CouchSurfing style)
- Sleep in a castle
- Sleep outside on a beach, under the sky
- Go on an African safari
- Camp in a desert
- See auroras in person
- See a comet
- Explore Punjab and the journey from village to city
- See northern Pakistan: mountains, valleys, and culture
- Visit Swat, Hunza, and Skardu in one long trip
- Travel Southeast Asia overland
- Hitchhike across a continent (Africa or Central Asia)
- Spend at least a month in West Africa
- Hike the Andes
- Sail around the Caribbean
- Drink tea on a cold morning in Russia
- Eat sushi in Japan
- Travel around Eastern Europe by train
- Visit Kashmir in peace
- Do the holy sites tour: Jerusalem, Galilee, Jordan river, Bethlehem, Nazareth
- Stay with an Amazonian tribe
- Visit Vatican City
- Visit Tehran
- Visit Sicily
- Visit 100 countries (~5% done)
- Go to the South Pole or North Pole
- Climb the Great Wall of China
- Hike to Everest base camp
- Climb the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
- Watch Burning Man in the US
- Carnival in Brazil
- Watch a Broadway show in New York (or equivalent world-class stage)
- Watch bullfight in Spain (maybe just the culture, not the bull)
- Watch a soccer game at Camp Nou (Old Trafford is fine too)
P.S.: I spend a lot of time thinking about how to build AI that ships, and occasionally write about it.