And It Was All New

For as long as I've been alive, I've been entrepreneurial. Excited, eager, always wanting to start things. Someone I've known for a long time recently described it as a compulsion. It is. About 12 years ago, I started a non-profit in Mumbai that taught underprivileged children how to code. (Here's that story.) This year, I handed it off completely to the local team. They took the bones of what we built and turned it into an excellent local organization, Tinker Qubits. I have often found myself seized by an idea and then having to act on it. Nearly 20 years ago, I decided to start a DIY travel show of my time in the Middle East I've started a web dev agency, games dev agency, a startup in Indonesia, a migrant worker dinner series, and many more There was also an ice cream shop somewhere in there Honestly not an exhaustive list: I don't remember all of them I'm not motivated by 'make money' (although I should). I'm drawn to the idea that if there is something I care very much about,…