Career

People I admire

  • Elon Musk
    • He is very smart, hard working, ambitious
  • Patrick Collison
    • Smart; flexible in terms of what Stripe can capitalise on; well-read and trying to solve problems
  • Carl Sagan
    • Inspiring awe in people for the universe. Reveal the world to people like me.

Problems

  • Renewable Energy
  • Nuclear fusion
  • Sustainable consumption and growth
  • Housing
  • Standard of living for a lot of the world
  • Plastic pollution
  • Food wastage and general inefficiencies in product wastage
  • existential questions
  • Nuclear war

Ideas

  • Year out
  • Mini VC
    • Would in theory attempt to tackle all the above problems
  • Some form of “start-up”
  • Go back to college
  • Switch up careers somehow

What I would like to be in my wildest dreams

  • Look to the stars, monitor them, learn the fundamental building blocks of the universe.
    • It feels selfish
    • Isolation from people who are solving hard problems
    • Not necessarily improving humanity as a whole, or trying to

Notes

  • At some point I want to learn the language of maths and how to use it to describe the universe (Physics)
  • I also want to read as much as I can about those who came before me
  • Both of these seem like a privilege as well as being really interesting. They also look at a higher level of humanity problems though. For instance, existential risks.
  • I feel some social obligation to do things that help people but ultimately I don’t really want to do, that I don’t really find interesting problems. How do I reconcile this?
    • Its not optimal?
  • Questions that are important to me? Ambition and ethics
    • Is this solving an important problem?
    • Does this help people?
  • How do I go about picking somewhere to study Physics
  • Computation could unlock or help unlock a lot of things
  • I think tackling climate change. Energy.