Project NEA

I am currently "working" with a group of 20 or so and growing, young professionals, new graduates and students.

The idea is this:

If you imagine a professional life as a long journey. You will come to a crossroad many times and each time you have a decision to make, sometimes insignificant and more often than not, very important.

Along the time line, you can visualize a decision tree. As you can tell, there are numerous combinations of paths one can take. And given the one way nature of time, you can only take one. Think still that, the earlier the node, the more significant of its long term effect. An easy example would be your life will look a lot more similar like your college classmates than a baby born in the same hospital.

That's where my idea comes in. I hope I could help young people at the beginning or early in their careers with important decisions, which I hope will cast a long and favorable shadow over their professional lives or even lives in general.

The inspiration comes from my high school math teacher. A simple and seemingly innocent steer changed my life completely, for which I am forever grateful and indebted. There were many other such examples in my life. I believe that there is no better way to pay back such indebtedness than living the example and passing on the torch to the next generations.