Why Now?

I am flying back to Baltimore after attending the Singularity conference on Exponential Medicine at the beautiful Hotel Del Cornado in San Diego. I am pretty impressed with myself that I am sitting calm and writing instead of bouncing around in the plane like flubber - optimistic about the future, excited about the opportunities, thankful to have met some extraordinary people and developed some life-long relationships with peers in different walks of life. The reason I am able to sit calm is because all this excitement has thrown me into self-reflection mode. What have I done so far, what am I doing now and what lies for me in the future. Note that the use of “I” and “me” is only in the context of making my useful out there in this world of opportunities and enthusiasm.

I’ve been excited and optimistic for a long time now, but never formulated my thoughts, never gave them structure and it was all talking. I am writing now in a hope to achieve a few things -

1. Document my thoughts so that the future me can look back at the present and past me
2. Give myself a direction from my current vantage point by looking at how can I make a difference, even if it is a small one - tangible ones
3. Most importantly, achieve/implement actionable items by following up on what I write, as it is much easier to slip away when you talk.

I don’t have any set of specific topics. They will probably be based on the what I am doing at that specific time. I have been heavily influenced by great role models that I will bring up often.

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