Juan Diego Cárdenas-Cartagena

Juan Diego Cárdenas-Cartagena

Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence

My to-do list

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Let me share with you my to-do list for the next decades. Some activities are charitable, others are laughable, and others are random. We will see how many are completed in the future. Last update: 27. October ‘22.

Keywords — to-do list, goals, personal deveolpemnt.

  • Finish my doctoral dissertation
  • Visit Canada and Germany again
  • Pay my student loans
  • Build a premium chocolate factory
  • Manage a cocoa plantation
  • Travel to El Salar del Uyuni, Bolivia
  • Watch wild penguins and puffins
  • Support children development programs in Medellin, Itagüi, and Betulia
  • Cook a croquembouche
  • Build a tech start-up
  • Pursue studies in philosophy
  • Visit the Mont-Saint-Michel, France
  • Drift a car on a frozen lake
  • Become a certified skydiver
  • Assist to a Rock in Rio
  • Live in Europe
  • Take a picture next to the Eiffel Tower
  • Eat in a Michelin-star restaurant
  • Assist to a Cirque du Soleil show
  • Design an Algo-trading system
  • Participate in a machine learning competition about finance
  • Drive a car at 150 kph and 200 kph
  • Build a gamer pc
  • Assist to a Green Day concert
  • Speak Norwegian and Dutch at a B2 level
  • Appear on national TV
  • Show my work in the newspapers
  • See the Northern lights
  • Travel to the Carnival in Riosucio
  • Celebrate the Day of the Dead in Mexico
  • Visit Disneyland with my mother
  • Learn snowboarding
  • Appear in The Suso’s show
  • Meet Raffaello D’Andrea
  • Place an Eric Joyner’s robots and donuts picture in my house
  • Meet Jordi Cruz
  • Drink tea in the UK
  • Become an elder Lord in Elden Ring
  • Meet Sebastian Thrun
  • Meet Juanes
  • Get married with my crush
  • Read the final chapter of One Piece
  • Assist to a Rammstein concert
  • Learn how to make home-made mozzarella cheese
  • Eat a Sacher cake in Vienna
  • Drive a car in Lofoten
  • Become a parental figure for someone
  • Visit Okinawa
  • Make a trip through Europe by car
  • Become a voice actor
  • Participate in a zombie walk
  • Visit Kathmandu

Some final thoughts

I will do my best to fulfill this list. Also, I will likely add more activities in the future as my personal goals are dynamic. So, stay tuned for further updates.

*Disclaimer: This post represents my personal opinion. I am not responsible for any content on external sites.

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