At the beginning of this year, I decided that 2022 was going to be my year of 100 ventures.
Earlier today I was sorting through some notebooks and found a list I’d made of 100 possible ventures. I thought it might be fun to share it here. A few of them have actually now happened, several are ongoing or still appeal, many of them sound like a lot of effort and I have no plans to attempt them. A couple of them I don’t even know what they mean.
Why share the list? Mostly just a whim. Also this newsletter is born out of the same energy as the 100 ventures idea, so in a way it feels like an appropriate home for it.
Without further ado
2022 - 100 ventures
cards to help with decision making
architecture cards (vernacular features?)
new home
new job
paid newsletter
quantum computing with qiskit
join quantum NLP discord
explore a cuisine
live in some different weird places
walk all night
visit Ireland
go to the Atlas mountains
a short interview series with interesting indie researchers
be involved in a theatre production
rent a London houseboat for a month
review open tools for microbiology
start a polymath project for the octopus thing [I meant this]
experiment with ML for power networks
apply to London startup fellowship
review supply chain data tools
mod a game
review tools for thought [?primitives]
go to a gay bar
join [a creative tech network]
get great tea facilities
submit a paper to an ML/AI conference
make a mosaic
explore music in depth for a day
apply to deepmind
language modelling for that medieval book [I meant this]
why is sunlight different?
buy an original artwork
commission a collaborative artwork
an exhibition
be on a skyscraper
visit Hana house
read Christopher Alexander
do something with WebGL
make a game
design a building
3D rendering of Frank Lloyd Wright house
review 3D graphic creation tools
make a map
go to Manchester & Dundee
go to Mozilla festival
own a sofa
visit Tate modern
sell something on a street
gather material for a book
live in a shared household
go on an archaeological dig
microbiology sketch journal
review of mathematics funding
repair a house
build an fpga chip
develop a new personal style
travel trans-Siberian railway
go on a long boat trip
read a bunch about the victorians
review arts and crafts movement
wild camping
review history of corporations
try kickboxing
sleep in a hostel
walk 100 miles
formally coded legal system in lean
review AI for maths research
submit to summer exhibition
have a library
review open bespoke manufacturing [?]
executive summaries for work not money [?]
see a monsoon
find out about new sun observations
play computer games for 12 hours
find an abandoned building
go to a maths conference
go to some random conferences
start issuing grants for unsolved problems (emergence in category theory)
^ make a list of fundamental missing blocks
^ is this a DAO?
post: how to change the course of science [?}
start a wiki for maths research
AI text thing to understand direction of different fields (patching together partial narratives)
try Alexander technique class
experiment with ways to use cards for thinking
manufacturing collective in deserted city centre shop
live in manchester
memorise a poem
financial method to detect people in need [?]
write a play
read plays
review Brecht
visit a monastery
start a fire
experiment with candles, incense
go storm chasing
live in an american commune
start a company
bake a cake
be unemployed
The list is followed by the line “what kind of critique leads to better government?” for no reason I can discern.