My mind. Enhanced.

It's been a thrilling seven days thus far. I spent my last weekend in a startup competition at UBC. I networked, pitched, and worked my way through the startup process. I met an awesome group of people and possible co-founders for a new venture. Only time will tell. Hint:  Google's Project Tango is where the future of the smartphone market is going. Monday kicked off the TED 2014 - The Next Chapter convention at Canada Place. It's freaking wild. From the interactive sculpture, to the speakers list, to all my favorite tech-icons of Silicon Valley and Boston, MA (Ray Kurzweil, Hugh Herr, Andrew McAfee, Sergey Brin, and the list goes on and on) all huddled around the city of Vancouver, my mind has gone through a dizzying array of fanboyiness excitement. Kurzweil spoke today and many people listened. The idea is out there now. It's mainstream. My twitter feed went nuts; people are now very aware of the Technological Singularity and are blown away by its core p

What's on my mind? A lot of stuff. But if you're curious to know the specifics, here are a few things that take up about 90% of my brain power at the moment (the remainder 10% is useless dribble like celebrity gossip and cartoony things): Electrical Engineering or more specifically branches of electrical engineering. I wrote a post about this a few months ago, and within the past year I've been focused on Math, Physics, Robotics, and Computer Science to help accomplish my goal of becoming an engineer. Auditing some MOOC courses on edX, Coursera, and YouTube (MIT, Stanford, Yale lectures) I've built, and continue to build,  a core set of engineering knowledge. My end goal is to establish an expertise in the coming age of the Internet of Things (IoT) . IoT . You've heard of the term, right? The idea that over the next decade we will see more and more "things" (like cars , thermostats , shoes , etc) connected to the internet via sensors and advanced micr