Things I Would Like to do

• Create a foundation, program, or process that exposes girls to science at a young age. Everything from soft science to fields in STEM. In fact, this program would ideally reach girls and women of all ages up until high-school. Ideally it would fund extracurricular activities like watching rocket launches, hosting Zoom scientist speaker sessions, science experiments, technology conventions, mechanics, computing, and tours of science and technology companies It would also provide funding and a path to higher education in fields like neuroscience, physics, engineering, biology, economics, and more. 
• In my own personal life experience, It tends to be me who have a proclivity to science, technology, and thinking about thinking. This isn't always the case, but I don't know many girls who want to see the SpaceX launches or like talking about the way the mind works. I can easily point to my childhood and early teen years when I was exposed/heard about science and astronomy. Shows like the Cosmos, Blue Planet, and Dirty Jobs exposed me to the idea of thinking critically and using science and reasoning as tools for decisions. Girls have been historically oppressed and discouraged from these topics. Females have been told that their voice doesn't matter and that only men have important things to say. As a society, we say we want to empower women and give them a voice but what tools are we providing them to facilitate this change? 
• Science, technology, and medicine are by far some of the most important fields today. They mold and shape world we live in today. But these fields are male dominated. We need women with scientific and technological know-how to be on the front lines of companies like Tesla, Google, and
• It doesn't just stop at the professional level. The zietgest and culture matter, too. What do girls believe about the nature of reality? Are our futures predetermined by the alignment of the stars? Or do we educate and provide the tools to so they can make reasonable choices.
• I've listened to the audiobook version of the power of now truly more than I can recall. I sometimes read the book as well and really try to understand line per line. So much of the book and the messages resonate with me. It has helped guide me through some rocky points of my life and always is my guide back to baseline when I am feeling in a rut or sorry for myself. However, I don't agree with everything in it. There is so much truth but the there are pieces in there that approach the supernatural, religious claims, and it falls in the category of 'spiritually' which taints the entire thing. I believe there are truisms in that books that would be backed by scientific evidence. The way it explains the mind and our sometimes compulsive behaviors closely align with some of the things written in modern psychology. For example, Daniel Khaneman first wrote about system 1and system 2. I think system 1 is well understood for the role it plays in our decision making, view of the world, and some of our behaviors. But it has never been explained or studied on the level of the mind. In other words, what does it feel like to be at the mercy of a system 1? This qualitative experience is difficult to measure and record. But in the power of now, it highlights how we have these competing forces of ego, fear, time distortion, anxiety, hedonic treadmill, and that endless hole we are feel deep down inside. I would like to write a book that grabs the most crucial parts of the power of now and marries it to the science or what we know so far about that autonomic part of the brain. 
• Develop a curriculum, institution, or method that anyone can follow to learn foundational knowledge that replaces the current 4-year bachelor's degree. For a while now, it is generally known that most college degrees are worthless in the eyes of our modern job market. Realistically, 80% of people end up joining the workforce in corporate related jobs. Why we continue to label degrees as specialized products like "psychology", "Biology", and "Health Sciences" is beyond me. Why do we continue setting up our young people like this? What is any 22 year old with 2 years of psychology-related classes going to do on the day they receive that certificate? 
• The new degree should be a general degree. A degree that doesn't have a label but indicates one is able to think critically, analyze and solve problems, and learned how to learn. 
• I recently think a lot about venture capital and firms like Peter Thiel's that invest in companies with potentially. Specifically in the tech & science space. Beyond providing money, they sometimes also consult and work with these companies to set them up for success. It is a good mix between being hands on and having specialized knowledge. I love science & tech, but I don't see myself succeeding in a technical role. But I like learning about different fields in science and tech and then thinking about the implications of it. I like business and marketing aspect of it, too. 
• The untapped dating market- we yet to find a good solution to the issue of matching humans. 
• A common theme I observe is people being single or finding incompatible people. Or people in general who are currently single and would like to not be. This is supply and demand of this product, yet we don't have any effective way of connecting the two. No good middleman.
• Apps like Tinder, Hinge, Bumble are stigmatized and often looked down on. It is seen as a move of last resort.
• Write a book or a user manual on being human/the human brain. I often think about the fact that we come into this world with little or no formal guidance on stuff. Yeah you have your parents but isn't that a little biased? Shouldnt we try to standardize this process a bit? Make sure we are taking the best stuff around the world of the knowledge known to humans.