The Mission
Why am I doing any of this?
A few years back, I began thinking about value and impact. I began to ask, ‘what is the most impactful thing that I can do?’
Now this is a deeply personal question, as it will be a different thing for each of us. Some of my initial thoughts were around addressing a core problem that the world was facing. However, the more I thought about it and explored it, addressing problems only goes so far. After all, we live in a world that has done an excellent job of addressing problems, only to have a new set of problems emerge. It seems quite clear that when you solve a big problem, ten more will come in its place, and perhaps this is the price of progress.
So, I went deeper. The core problems that we face individually and collectively are a part of life, a part that will always be there in one shape, form, or another. This is because there is no perfect solution to life. The challenges are, in effect, a blessing and not a curse. So my mission became clear.
The mission isn’t to solve any problems, but to solve man’s problem with problems.
In other words, to help people become more self-aware and reflective so that they may live a happy life even in the midst of chaos.
And isn’t this the true test?
Being happy only when everything is perfect is like being a slave to external conditions. As soon as the conditions change, so will you.
The true test is like being in the ‘eye of the storm’ and knowing that no matter what chaos comes your way, you will have the equanimity and the presence of mind to address it without it even touching your inner state.
And from this line of thinking, The Mission was born.
What is the Mission?
The mission is to help people increase their self-awareness and reflectivity and to leverage the power of AI and technology to organize this process.
Ultimately, the Mission is to use AI to help you live a happier life, no matter what chaos brings to your door.
Stefan Speaks Substack
The purpose of this Substack is to both help achieve the mission and document the process of interjecting AI into it. Along the way, I will share with you the details of how the sausage is made.
To make it easy, we organized this Subtack as follows:
Philosophy & Mindfulness: Here I will focus on the actual content that helps one find purpose and how to live a life of deep meaning. This section will be deeply philosophical, but in a very hands-on, practical manner that can be applied to one’s life.
AI & Chatbots: This section will focus on AI and my experiments implementing philosophy, psychology, and mindfulness within our AI projects for the purposes of fulfilling the mission.
Metaverse & Web3: This section will document experiments in the Metaverse and we try to make our projects more like lived experiences.
Master Series: This section will have tutorials that go into depth on how we made it. Including tools, templates, courses, etc. This is for paid subscribers who want to support this mission and dive deeper.
Chat: This is where the community of people who are supporting the mission connects, asks questions, and drives the future content of the Deep Dives. This is for paid subscribers who support this mission.
Join the Journey
To this end, I will focus on creating projects and experiments using AI and other tech to help people who use the tech grow, and I will share the results here.
I look forward to this journey and connecting with you along the way.
Cheers
Stefan