How I will work for community
In late 2019, I jumped into Artificial Intelligence field, which was a great turn for me. At that time, I found out that only a few people worked in AI and AI hasn’t played an essential role in IT industry.
I believed that AI would be one of the most essential or most wanted technologies in near future.
After 10 months of researching in computer vision which is a major branch of AI, I wanted to help people who want to learn AI but do not know where to start. Thus, I started joining volunteer works. I shared what I have learnt and educated people how AI is going to change the world. My first step was for university students who were enthusiastic about AI.
In the beginning of 2020, I started working as an AI solution architect in a major cloud provider. Even I had a tight work schedule, I was always ready to work for community. In Myanmar’s AI industry, I found a place for me to contribute. In March, I cooperated with a Myanmar Community Group and joined as a core member. That was a great experience for me. My time slots were full of work and community matters. Although I was so tired, I couldn’t say “No”.
That was my priority at that time and I thought that was my true happiness because I believed I was born for these responsibilities. I thought that was the meaning of my life.
In September, I began to sense negative feelings, the emotions that were not welcomed. These all started because I accepted every request, every favor as my responsibilities. Other people’s plans, other people’s goals became mine. I didn’t notice that I have already slipped off my own path and walked on others’ paths. I wasn’t happy anymore.
Although I thought I was born for that, I lost my meaning of life. I lost myself and I lost my way slowly.
Since that time, the person who really loved to talk, changed into a silent one. The person who really liked to stay around people, started running away from the people. I couldn’t sleep well and I had same nightmares over and over again. Fortunately, someone woke me up of my nightmares.
Let me share my thoughts about working for community and my beliefs about what community should do.
Adding value to people should be the primary purpose of a community. I want to make an impact starting from a small network and then country and then for all living people. My first year, 2020, was targeted to expand the AI community and ignite the interests of the people. During that time, I met different people who had the same vision for this community. Some really invested the time and effort to society. Some worked as half community and half social business. Some considered community as completely social business. Today, there exists many communities of AI. That is a great change for our country. Hopefully, that would be helpful for this community.
Community groups with clear missions and visions will stand longer than those without.
The more you live in the society, the more you see what would happen. Whatever, for me, one year has passed working for community. That was a good start but that wasn’t the thing that I really wanted.
So, in 2021, I have decided to change my desired plans which will really lead me to my vision. For this year, I will be doing my own desired way for adding value to a small network. Results and outcomes are the main focus of 2021. I may stay low profile, I may rarely show up in public. However, that doesn’t mean I leave, that doesn’t mean I take a break. That means I found a better way to make impacts that I have always desired. There are many ways to make a better world. From this day, I will do it in my own way.
