Seven years ago, I received a diagnosis: a degenerative condition, progressive and incurable. The doctor gave me five years before losing basic functions—walking, speaking, eating independently.
I did the math. My clock was set to run out by my mid-thirties.
So, I started building. Fast. Not chasing success or prestige, but driven by urgency. I launched a company, scaled it internationally, and collected accolades along the way. This wasn’t career-building—it was a race against time.
Then something unexpected happened.
The deadline arrived, but I remained.
Not unchanged—now in a wheelchair, speech slowed, each action costing more energy—but undeniably still here. Facing something I’d never considered: what comes next?
When the ending you’ve prepared for doesn’t arrive as anticipated, everything is rewritten.
I stepped away from my company. I pursued a new venture that seemed perfect on paper. By my standards, it failed—not financially, but in impact. We had built a casino, not something truly meaningful.
Now, here I am. Prestige mode activated. Resetting to level one.
Not because I failed, but because genuine growth demands resets. You keep your meta-learning but start fresh. Every new chapter is inherently zero-shot.
Zero-shot learning in machine learning is doing something entirely new, without prior examples. It means drawing from generalized experiences to navigate situations you’ve never encountered before.
That’s exactly what being human feels like today.
We’re entering an era without an existing playbook. AI is reshaping our rules quicker than we can adapt. While the models learn from historical data, humans must engage in continuous zero-shot learning—navigating uncertainty, figuring out the new rules of life and work in real-time.
It’s not just an AI challenge. It’s our existential reality.
Every meaningful moment in life is zero-shot. There’s no precedent for your precise circumstance. You must synthesize everything you’ve learned and move forward anyway.
I don’t yet know what work looks like for me.
The old founder playbook—raise funds, generate hype, scale aggressively—no longer fits. My physical constraints rule out the traditional hustle. Yet, I remain convinced another way exists. A method suited to my new reality.
I just haven’t discovered it yet.
This blog is that discovery process.
It’s not a manual, a motivational speech, or a story of triumph over adversity.
It’s simply me—acknowledging uncertainty, writing my way forward, navigating without training data.
Zero-shot.
Let’s see where it leads.