With the understanding of these domains, I could identify distinct domains in which I was bettering myself, and I was able to justify the time expenditure of engaging in the things I enjoyed. Furthermore, having categorize my interests, I was able to reduce the mental scatteredness that comes with moving forward in so many directions at once. In this vein, I took a step further and organized this domains into a spatial map I not-so-creatively call my "domain wheel" (again, see the photo). I lean on the visuospatial realm to organize my thoughts, so this spatial organization tool proved invaluable in further reducing my mental noise. It allowed me to externally track my progress in various projects and helped me let go of my thoughts.  Essentially, I was more present in reality and less caught up with mentally keeping track of everything I did and wanted to do.

All of these adaptations to less unstructured time helped to justify, consolidate, and organize my quest for breadth and variety. But for the most part, each of my interests still existed in silos with their products distributed through separate channels. The videos I created in operating a small multimedia marketing business went to several different clients. The research projects I completed were presented at different conferences. The photos I captured went to 500px and Instagram. The podcast that I co-created out of a passion for emerging technologies was hosted on Soundcloud, iTunes, and Google Play. What I quickly realized was that this multitude of outlets spread my efforts across many channels, reducing my growth in each one. Furthermore, the administrative burden of keeping track of all these channels stole a great deal of time away from actually creating and engaging in my passions. Of course I could’ve just stopped distributing the things I created. But like all human beings, I had a desire to share my thoughts, creations, and passions with other human beings. We've evolved as highly social creatures, after all. The solution came after a great deal of thought. Rather than having a multitude of outlets, one or two for each interest, I'd instead create a single, catch-all distribution channel to share the films, photos, stories, thoughts, articles, builds, adventures, etc. that resulted from engaging in my interests with anyone who might find these things stimulating, engaging, or entertaining. And rather than displaying my content in a format determined by some company, say a YouTube channel or Instagram feed, I could customize this distribution channel to fit what I thought best. My efforts would all be coordinated behind the growth of a single entity rather than 5 or 10, with the additional benefit of less mental scatteredness. And thus, this website was born. 

As my career in medicine has continually demanded more and more time, I've had to pare my life down to those interests which are truly essentially - those activities that I simply must do or else risk becoming understimulated and frustrated. For me, those core interests are storytelling and exploration. I still engage my love of technology and business in various work-related endeavors, and my interest in human performance through my own mental and physical fitness, but these interests in storytelling and exploration require intentional practice outside of what is required by my career. Thus, the products of these interests are the things you'll see most prominently featured throughout my site moving into the future, sometimes in a merger of two as I capture films, and now photographic narratives (which you can read all about here) of my various adventures. I hope you enjoy taking a look around!