after school story : 20 years later

2005 to 2026 : It's a round number of years to think about how my post-college career has been executed.

Strategy, supporting goal A.

My view before 2001 was that commerce is full of stupid greedy people, and science and academia in general are basically controlled indirectly by this, so I needed to study commerce in order to familiarise myself with it, to understand its impact on academia.

Strategy, supporting goal B.

From 2001 to 2005, the plan was to fully ignore commercial subjects until graduation, in order to minimise early commercial theory and maximise practical commercial focus later. After a few mind-bending years on non-commercial subjects, I thought it would take 20 years for me to stress-test my college studies, so I would need to keep myself occupied with something else anyway, while testing the practicalities of my non-commercial models.

Debrief.

Now it is both, over 20 years since I consolidated my views on metaphysics, and almost 20 years since I began my practical study of commerce. I think it is timely to reduce my focus on Malaysian studies in 2027, though 2026 has it as a higher remedial priority.

Outlook.

I retain an open mind about where each year will take me. After all, I am privileged to be in my third effective lifetime, and I look forward to discovering where luck will take me, before I finally sleep forever.