It is the morning of August 26th and will be the beginning of my 30 day experiment to write something each day. It's been my personal goal to practice writing and just excercise a life long skill I've wanted to develop since I was a kid. The inspiration has been the A VC blog that I read.

Writing is a powerful tool that was never emphasized while I was growing up. It's amazing to me how we over index on the hard sciences, but if we don't learn how to communicate it's relevance to everyone else, that discovery is lost. I remember a story my old boss told me. He has an autistic son who was in first grade at the time and was doing math at a fifth grade level. However, his autism made it difficult for him to communicate and empathize with the people around him. This deficiency made him realize the importance of the humanities and social sciences and how those subjects teach us what makes us people. We need empathy to convey why these important scientific discoveries matter to everyone else.