Work Worth My Time

A person should find work they both enjoy and do well, then give it their time.

I watched an interview with Sridhar Ramaswamy. He said he was capable of doing research, but was never passionate about research itself. (“I was okay doing research, but I was never passionate about doing research.”)

That sentence felt exact. I can do research, and I have done it reasonably well. Yet whether I feel a deep passion for research itself has always been unclear. What I can do and what I want to spend my life doing are not necessarily the same.

Writing this blog has recently shown me where time never feels wasted: understanding why companies move, how technology becomes valuable, and where people and money flow. Every answer creates another question. Hours pass without feeling misspent. I enjoy this work, and perhaps I may be good at it.

Ramaswamy also began in research, but did not remain there. He built software and expanded his domain by understanding how it shaped products and businesses. He did not abandon technology. He followed it to the point where it became value in the real world.

Research remains my most important foundation. But it may not be the end in itself. I am more drawn to understanding where technology, companies, people, and money meet—and to building something new within that structure.

Whether my title is researcher, executive, or founder is not important. What matters is finding work that makes time stand still, then giving it enough of my ability and my life.

I do not want to stop at studying technology. I want to reach the point where technology moves reality.