Welcome to what I hope will become a chalkboard-esque forum to express myself in areas of interest. I anticipate this will hover around Neuroscience and artificial intelligence, but I also am an avid visual art and music consumer with aspirations to create, so perhaps these interests will become content here as well. Also, In the coming years I will become entrenched in the genre of humanity that is graduate school so I anticipate that I, like many others, will have sentiments to express regarding that venture.
This blog is a hopeful new beginning. I am not by nature a publicly demonstrative person, and as such I find the modern landscape of social media to be a foreign platform for self expression. Though I greatly enjoy connecting with friends and family through social media, I am not generally a “post-er” of content. Aside from simply not reflexively capturing moments to post, I justify this with feelings that the content I could provide is superfluous. I do not think this is because I have a high bar for what is a meaningful contribution, I just want to avoid presuming that what I contribute is significant enough for others to view. I am willing to accept this is rooted in insecurity and reinforced through laziness, but regardless, for these reasons I feel this blog is the ideal platform for me to attempt to express myself to a broader audience. I like that the content here will not be pushed to anyone unless they choose. I like that even if there are no readers, it at the very least will provide an impetus and structure for expressing myself more formally than just my personal thoughts and conversations with those close to me.
I feel as though I am at an inflection point in my life that I want to take advantage of. Up until this moment, much of my time was spent positioning myself to work in a field that I find inspiring. I feel I am on the right career track now, and I have time that I want to use to explore adjacent interests that I have collected. This blog is a stumbling first step towards this aim.
Having established that loose framework of “why”, welcome to this personal experiment!
Danny Burnham 