A word on education and career

First of all, after 6 years of learning and applying Economics, I hope one day I could be in the right position to build a new economy as I've always been and will be an economist at heart.

After graduating MPAID and coming back home, I've thought about working for China's Central Bank or build on the national strategy of digital currencies.

However, my biggest strength is in building systems, and what my education taught me is not some fancy engineering architecture or economic models, but the capabilities to adopt the tools on hand to build.

And I don't think my talents would be where it should be best used if I work for the CB on monetary policies.

As an HKS grad we'd always ask ourselves what's our why, and despite the many things I've always wanted to do and try, my why is making people's lives better and building a place where people could flourish collectively and expand for better experiences, and technology is the key to my strategy.

What I'm best at for my past career - applying both economics and computer science in building decentralized systems, is self taught. And throughout my life what I'm best at is self taught. This is true for natural sciences and systematic disciplines like engineering. But economics is the discipline to navigate a huge machine and the currency system that moves the globe, and is subject to changes constantly, which I have no clue how to cut into. And the MPAID, with its heavylifting for the brain and ever-intricate models to map the real world, really opened up my mind about the dynamics of global economy.

The skills from MPAID will be the most important tool for me to ultimately achieve my why. But we also need to look at where the world is at. Doing it prematurely = blueprint. The roadmap to it is policies.

Now I need to fully turn into my engineer version and apply what I've always been best at. I am pursuing medicine full time and aiming for a phD in medical technology and science. I'm very optimistic about the future any way and I know that sooner than later I'll be back to that economist version and turn the blueprints I've designed into reality.