Shekhar Natarajan

I'll just echo with what they've said.

You want to keep learning.

You know, it's like I sometimes mourn for parallel timelines that I haven't been able to act upon.

And I'm incredibly privileged.

I've already lived many lives.

I think about my life when I lived in LA, my life now living in Amsterdam, and the life that I haven't had yet, where I'm just like, I just want to spend like three years walking pilgrimages in Japan.

You know, I just read this book about this guy walking Japan.

sculpt things become other things it's marvelous you read five pages and you're like i want to go do this for a couple of years you know and i don't want to like be counting the clock and thinking what age i am and do i have kids yet and you know i'm not married and what does this mean and oh my dad i want to spend more time with my dad you know like i feel constrained now maybe you know it could be that i this is just my wiring and this is just her wiring but i i don't know like i i think that like

if given the opportunity and the inspiration and if people weren't fighting to survive and weren't in the survivalist mindset, I imagine in the future a kind of university campus upbringing for people where it's like the movie Dead Poets Society and people are just going to classes on whatever subject they want because you study whatever you want, you sit in bean bags, you learn, you get excited.

I sort of see that I listen to how things feel

and that's how I decide like what I want and like what I feel is I wanna be in a state where I'm learning and growing and the horizon just keeps expanding and I don't feel the existential constraint of time, entropy, loss and all these things.

I just, you know, talk about frictions.

You know, I see them as like a fist in the stomach, you know.

Let's imagine that you did everything you could do in 200 years and you can live up to 250.

what would you do the next 50 years?

You did everything.

You went all over the world.

You went to Mars, came back.

It's not what it's cracked up to be.

That's not on my list.