Themes
A journey through the taglines of my life
Last updated on Aug 5, 2024
I've always loved the idea of having "themes" to represent a period of one's life. A sentence or paragraph that encapsulates the directions and philosophical underpinning of a given period. The shorter the better.
This page is a collection of the evolving themes that have shaped my personal and professional work over time. Each tagline represents a distinct period in my journey, reflecting my focus and aspirations of that moment.
"The fantastic future that awaits"
May 2024
I adopted this theme around the same time I started to work fulltime on Eidon AI. This has been recurrent in the discussions with the team about the future of AI and, at large, the future of humanity: The future is what we make of it. It will be whatever we wanted to be.
This is not at a personal level. This is not about I want to own X or make Y or live in Z. This is about us all as humans. How humanity will look like in 1,000 years, 2,000, 100,000 or more is up to us. For me, that future is fantastic. And it is what I am working for at Eidon AI.
"Deep, sincere, first-principle thinking. Succinct, original, independent writing"
Jan 2024
I have not been as consistent of a writer as I would like. My writing has gone through ebbs and flows, often inversely proportional to how much I am reading at any point in time. As they say "when you are overthinking, write; when you are underthinking, read". But anytime I go back to a writing phase, I try to take this theme as my guiding principle.
If I am to produce something worth reading - if I am to be let into someone else's mind - then my thinking must be deep, sincere, and principled. Only then will valubale writing come out the other end.
"As if it were the last thing I do in life"
Apr 2023
During my annual re-read of meditations in 2023, I was fundamentally shaken by Meditations 2.5. It forced me to reflect on the million distractions I was succumbing to on a daily basis in both professional and personal life. Going through life as a slave to distraction and impulses. Shortly after, that quote was tattooed in my arm.
This continues to be a daily reminder, strategically placed on my forearm, of the beauty that comes from doing things with devotion and concentration.