Recent Leaps

I'm blogging now and this my first post! My recent leaps (no particular order). Its scary and thrilling to take leaps.

1) Learning Chinese. I enrolled 2 weeks ago and will see it through. I have been putting this off for over 5 years! Time flies....Thinking back on all the reasons I kept it low on list of priorities since wanting to start learning mandarin seriously 5 years ago! On one hand, its a bad feeling to think how excellent my mandarin would already be had I actually started 5 years ago. On the other hand, the Beijing Olympics are 3 years away and that's plenty of time to become conversant.

2) Starting a Company. Two weeks ago together with two friends, I left my full time job to start a company of our own. I'm giving up a nice paycheck and devoting myself full time to something that is unproven and speculative. As one of my professors said, "starting a company is an irrational decision, and you may fall flat on your face, but you must take the leap of faith".

3) Podcasting and Blogging. 20 years from now my kids will be able to Google me and listen in on my thoughts circa 2005. Think about if you could listen to your parent's thoughts before you were born? My podcast is "my experiences learning Chinese".