List 100

• 1.✓Move from Janpur village to Bahawalpur for better education
• 2.✓Enroll in BS Artificial Intelligence at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
• 3.✓Become Senior Executive Member of the AI Club at IUB
• 4.✓Complete NAVTTC AI / ML training (Prime Minister's Youth Skills Program)
• 5.✓Complete 1,600+ hours in Pak AI Vision / CAI (Silicon Valley track)
• 6.✗Get a PhD in CS, Neuroscience, or AI-adjacent research
• 7.✗Teach a graduate-level AI course at a university
• 8.~Read 100 books on AI, systems, and product (~35% done)
• 9.✓Start a company (ZorceX: AI automation, agents, and product builds)
• 10.✓Ship production RAG and LLM systems for international clients
• 11.✓Work as an AI Engineer on Upwork with global clients
• 12.✓Work as an AI Automation Specialist on Fiverr
• 13.✓Build and deploy a full-stack AI portfolio with Zeeshan Assistant
• 14.✓Master LangChain, LangGraph, and agent orchestration in real projects
• 15.✓Learn production MLOps: FastAPI, observability, and cloud deploy
• 16.✓Mentor students through AI Club workshops and community events
• 17.✗Become first author on a paper at a top-tier AI / ML conference
• 18.✗Author a patent for an AI system or agent workflow
• 19.✗See my technical writing featured in a major AI publication
• 20.✗Publish a book on shipping LLM applications to production
• 21.✗See a ZorceX-built product used by 100,000+ users
• 22.✗Start a research lab focused on production AI and agents
• 23.✗Start a scholarship fund for brave students from rural Punjab
• 24.✗Get involved in a publishing house for math, science, and engineering books
• 25.✗Volunteer 1,000 hours helping elders in my community
• 26.✗Create my own programming language
• 27.~Publish a Python package used by other engineers
• 28.✓Compete in 10+ hackathons (MIT IAP, IBM watsonx, lablab.ai, and more)
• 29.✓Participate in MIT Global AI Hackathons (IAP seminar track)
• 30.✗Win a major international AI hackathon
• 31.✗Speak at TED or a major AI conference
• 32.✗Visit Googleplex and major US AI labs in person
• 33.✗Meet a founder I deeply admire in AI
• 34.✓Write publicly on Medium and Substack about AI engineering
• 35.✗Get published in the New Yorker (or equivalent long-form outlet)
• 36.✗Write for a tech show or documentary I actually watch
• 37.✗Design and publish an indie game
• 38.✗Have my own ice cream flavor (serious life goal)
• 39.✓Fall in love
• 40.✗Build a home (a simple one, but it's mine)
• 41.✗Have a salad from my own garden
• 42.✗Become a parent
• 43.✗Be a writer in Paris for a month
• 44.✓Go on a trip overseas with my whole family
• 45.✗Body transformation: consistent fitness for a full year
• 46.~Be awesome
• 47.~Be kind
• 48.✗Take a hot-air balloon ride
• 49.✗Be in a submarine
• 50.✗Swim a mile in open water
• 51.✗Run a half marathon
• 52.✗Scuba dive in clear water
• 53.✗Learn to ski
• 54.✗Surf in Hawaii
• 55.✗Fly an airplane
• 56.✓Learn to drive a car
• 57.✗Dance on stage at a concert
• 58.✗Ride a horse in Mongolia
• 59.✗Do stand-up comedy once (terrifying)
• 60.✗Work in a casino for a day (curiosity)
• 61.✗Experience zero gravity
• 62.✗Learn to play a music instrument (tried once: retry)
• 63.✗Learn to salsa
• 64.✓Take a walk in the rain without rushing anywhere
• 65.✗Eat at a 3 Michelin star restaurant
• 66.✓Ask a stranger out (they said no: still counts)
• 67.✗Invite a stranger to my home (CouchSurfing style)
• 68.✗Sleep in a castle
• 69.✗Sleep outside on a beach, under the sky
• 70.✗Go on an African safari
• 71.✗Camp in a desert
• 72.✗See auroras in person
• 73.✗See a comet
• 74.✓Explore Punjab and the journey from village to city
• 75.✓See northern Pakistan: mountains, valleys, and culture
• 76.✗Visit Swat, Hunza, and Skardu in one long trip
• 77.✗Travel Southeast Asia overland
• 78.✗Hitchhike across a continent (Africa or Central Asia)
• 79.✗Spend at least a month in West Africa
• 80.✗Hike the Andes
• 81.✗Sail around the Caribbean
• 82.✗Drink tea on a cold morning in Russia
• 83.✗Eat sushi in Japan
• 84.✗Travel around Eastern Europe by train
• 85.✗Visit Kashmir in peace
• 86.✗Do the holy sites tour: Jerusalem, Galilee, Jordan river, Bethlehem, Nazareth
• 87.✗Stay with an Amazonian tribe
• 88.✗Visit Vatican City
• 89.✗Visit Tehran
• 90.✗Visit Sicily
• 91.~Visit 100 countries (~5% done)
• 92.✗Go to the South Pole or North Pole
• 93.✗Climb the Great Wall of China
• 94.✗Hike to Everest base camp
• 95.✗Climb the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
• 96.✗Watch Burning Man in the US
• 97.✗Carnival in Brazil
• 98.✓Watch a Broadway show in New York (or equivalent world-class stage)
• 99.✗Watch bullfight in Spain (maybe just the culture, not the bull)
• 100.✗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.