So, I’m back in California for the time being. I spend most of my waking hours applying for jobs, studying for the GREs, or reading. It’s actually been a good time, even though I’m always tired, because I’m learning.

While the market has been taking a beating, I’ve been out of it, thankfully, and using the time to study. It’s very enlightening to read what other people think about stocks, the efficient market hypothesis, and the ways to successfully “beat the street.”

At the same time, though, my mind has been thinking up all sorts of things that I’d like to do. I think I may want to run for political office sometime in the future. Scary huh? I also would like to go into business. I think solar energy generation, waste management and recycling, and public transportation would be very interesting businesses to manage. I’ve also been toying with the idea of starting my own website or publication. I think that, especially in this information age, we have this overload of information, but the level of analysis has not caught up with the information deluge. I started toying with this idea a while ago, but I think it’d be great to have a website or publication where it was commentary and analysis of various happenings in the world. Something like a cross between Maxim, anandtech.com, and CNN with better analysis. A site you could go to get the news, but more importantly, get analysis and intelligent discussion, and LEARN something, and also read reviews of cool products or industry developments.

I guess, the more I learn, the more I get older, the more it seems apparent to me that people don’t think, don’t analyze and question as much as they should. We do too much learning passively, rather than actively processing information ourselves. This really bothers me. Life is empirical. We shouldn’t just be sitting back and watching it pass us by.

I know this hasn’t been a very coherent or organized blog. It’s my 21st birthday. I guess I should be happy, but I’m not. I’m not unhappy, exactly, but I’m not happy like I should be on my birthday. Oh well. Time to start drinking.