From Office Worker to Author, Musician, and Artist in Less Than Two Years
How sharing your creative side projects can transform your life.
The last year and a half have been a time of big changes for me.
I started into 2018 working full-time as an AI researcher at a startup, focusing on the practical applications of AI to business related problems in domains such as finance and law.
Writing, music, and art were things I enjoyed almost exclusively in a passive capacity. Consuming rather than producing. While I was slightly dabbling in some of these areas, I had no plans or ambitions to take them beyond minor hobbies.
However, through a series of seemingly random coincidences I am now more or less pursuing a combination of these three things as my career(s).
All of this unfolded through the immense power and momentum that accumulates when you share your work liberally with the world. The magic that unfolds when you do this conspires to make all these unlikely and random events happen at an astonishing rate. And once you get the process started, it’s only accelerating from there.
Fully in the spirit of this, I want to use this article to share with you some of my process and story, and what it has lead to. I want to give you a…
