Autodidactic. I cannot stop learning, and I love youtube and other similar tools for exactly that. One of the main reasons I am at MIT right now is because I went down a rabbit hole of learning about functional programming, category theory, and system design generally during my time building out products at my startup. I was always eager to figure out how we could do things better, and my philosophical perspective always had me pursuing underlying ideas. I was experimenting with meeting schedules, trying to understand what made was the optimal way to run a team, a company, build a product. I was never just a builder, I needed to always dig deeper. But that hasn’t been unique only to tech and category theory. It’s also with art, I’ve always wanted to understand music and film. I began teaching myself guitar a few years ago, picked up back up on the piano, and even got a banjo to start learning after visiting Ireland. I have been growing my knowledge of music theory. Even with more hobbyist interests like film, I’ve wanted to dig deeper: I love this movie, what are this director’s favorite movies? What are the different methodologies and schools of cinematography and composition? etc etc. It’s this craving for learning that convinced me I should dive into learning full-time again and go back to school.