This is my final post...

I started this blog in 2011 This was not the blog’s original home, nor its identity. This blog started in Medium when a couple of ex-Twitter founders decided that the then web publication industry was too commercial and too corporate for diverse contributors to share their thoughts and reach broader audiences. I started this blog as a way for capturing my thoughts and share my experiences as an ex-pat and a young professional who was making his first steps in Silicon Valley, California.

Throughout the years it has taken a number of turns from serving as my personal platform where I would comment and debate trends in the mobile advertising industry to expressing my views in current affairs, to writing industry-related articles in hopes to be picked up by the “social gods” and land me my next gig, to documenting progress in my new hobbies. The only thing that has stayed constant throughout the years, is its use as a platform for expressing thoughts and perspectives from the point of view of a young individual without any dependents. And this era is about to change.

The only thing that has stayed constant throughout the years, is its use as a platform for expressing thoughts and perspectives from the point of view of a young individual without any dependents.

In a few days from now, and most likely as you read these lines, I’ll become a father to a little girl. My perspective in life will never be the same. My aspirations, personal goals, achievements, and desires will always take second place. I will never have the same challenges again, and the current ones will most likely seem like a fraction of my problems. As I type these words, I have no idea of what those challenges will be like, or even where to look for answers. What I know is that this will most likely be my last blog post in my current capacity, where figuring out how to best optimize my day to make time for my passions, or going through an acquisition at work seemed to be the biggest challenges thus far.

I don’t know what challenges parenthood will throw at me, nor do I know what it’s like raising a child, so I don’t know what kind of thoughts or challenges I’ll be sharing through this platform in the future. I don’t even know how often I’ll have time to myself to properly articulate my thoughts in order to put them on paper, and I certainly don’t know if I’ll be able to afford to miss important moments in her life to exercise my passion for creating stories through photos and videos.

I don’t know what challenges parenthood will throw at me, nor do I know what it’s like raising a child, so I don’t know what kind of thoughts or challenges I’ll be sharing through this platform in the future.

What I do know for certain is that irrespective of the frequency, or the type of thoughts I have, I’ll always be coming back here to share what’s in my head. The style might be different, so will the content, and while this might be the final post in this blog’s current state, it will certainly not be the last. I am very excited and equally petrified, to see what those next thoughts of mine will be. But more importantly, I’m extremely excited for this new, unknown, chapter in my life that is about to begin.

Till next time… in a chapter…