What I’m Doing Now
Updated October 20th, 2024, from Washington, DC.
Fall is here
- Writing The Jailbroken Guide to UIUC, genuinely excited about it. It'll be like anything ever created. I'm posting updates on LinkedIn
- I don't know what this thing will be. Other than, it will be exciting. I certainly get so excited when I work on it.
- Currently working on AviVox, a tool to allow you to create community-run X/Twitter accounts. Learn more here
- The UIUC Talkshow published two great episodes. One with Illinois Football coach and another one with a nuclear physicist.
- Currently thinking about doing the talkshow full-time and trying to figure out a way to sustain ourselves while doing so.
- If you're in DC or know anyone interesting there, let me know.
- The goal, right now and always, is simple: I have an innate ability to create and inspire new paths that weren't there before in myself and other people. Every project, essay, and video follows that vision. How can I continue doing that while creating an interesting business? That's the top question in my mind right now.
Fun
- Finished reading Bolivar by Marie Arana. Inspired me to read it after I met her (UIUC Talkshow interview with her coming up). Although I grew up learning about Bolivar, I never really took it upon myself to research and understand how everything went down. Learned so much and gave me so much inspiration. Will we need another Simon Bolivar in Venezuela? We will. One of the ideas I'm most excited about is how we need to combine South America into one country. This was Bolivar's Dream -- "La Gran Colombia." But jealousy and the dark side of human nature did not allow it to happen. But think about it like this: If South America came together (excluding Brazil but hey join if you want), it would be one of the biggest countries today, it could create greater prosperity, and improve the lives of its population. More thoughts on this later.
- Still listening to Shantaram and reading War & Peace. War & Peace is such a great book, holy smokes!!!
- Visited Chicago for a week or so. Loved it, had incredibly inspiring conversations, woke up everyday at 4:40 AM to work out, ran 6 miles every day, and wrote a few essays such as Letter to A Friend and I wrote another one about Bolivar's Lover. For some reason, I get back to Chicago and a crazy amount of work happens within short amounts of time. Weird! The same thing happened during college.
Quote I'm thinking about
“We often think that by removing all the difficulties
of our life we shall more quickly reach our aim, but on the contrary, my
dear sir, it is only in the midst of worldly cares “that we can attain our
three chief aims: (1) Self-knowledge—for man can only know himself
by comparison, (2) Self-perfecting, which can only be attained by
conflict, and (3) The attainment “of the chief virtue—love of death.
Only the vicissitudes of life can show us its vanity and develop our
innate love of death or of rebirth to a new life.”
War and Peace
Ciao
Ciao, ciao, ciao!
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