I wanted to leave this answer blank, but I think you should know the real reason behind it. Let me start my story from my childhood.

Me and my family lived in a rented house with one small room and a kitchen. We had a black-and-white TV with an antenna on the roof. My tuition teacher was the house owner herself, and she taught all the children, including me, on the rooftop.

When I didn’t know the answer in a test, I would ask my tuition teacher, “May I go to the toilet?” When she allowed it, I quickly went to my room, opened the book, wrote the answer on my hand, and came back. I also used to fly kites and had a bunch of small, colorful kittens that often disturbed the class. I was always the one who got scolded.

My school took us to a naval dockyard where I saw helicopters and ships, and naval commanders explained how life rafts work. That day, I thought that when I grow up, I will join the navy. My school also had frequent health checkups by doctors, which inspired me to become a doctor. When the school took us to the zoo, I wanted to become an animal caretaker. When we visited museums and saw old aircraft, my mind changed again and I wanted to become a pilot. My dreams kept changing like this. But today, I am nothing.

As time passed, I was studying in a navy school located in a defense area. As you know, I was a little weak in studies and always sat on the last bench, but I was not naughty. One day, our science madam asked us a question and said that tomorrow we should tell the full form of a chemical that starts with “AR.”

During the break time, I got an idea. We all had mini Oxford dictionaries. I knew that words in a dictionary are arranged in alphabetical order, so I searched and found the word “Arsenic.” I told my friend about it. When the madam came to check whether everyone had finished their lunch box inspection, we both told her the answer. She was shocked at how we came up with the correct answer. But still, we didn’t get any claps.

One day again, the same science teacher was explaining about magnets and their properties, including repulsion, how magnets are different from metals, and how to identify magnets using the textbook. But in my head, I was not understanding anything about science.

I told my best friend that if we take a magnet and bring it close to the window rod, it will stick. We already know the window rod is metal, so the other object in our hand must be the magnet, because only magnets have the property to attach. We found the easiest method to identify a magnet. We told this idea to the madam. She was shocked, stopped the class, and left the classroom.

I used to play a lot of video games during my childhood because it was fun. I was caught many times by school staff because the game shop was very close to my school. Even I didn’t know why I played so much or why I was so attached to games. Maybe it was the colorful TV, something new to watch, or meeting other friends.

But today, I understand one thing. In video games, you get appreciation like “You win,” “You are great,” or “You unlocked a level.”

When I went late to school, I was punished. Even when I told the truth that the local bus didn’t come, our PT sir wouldn’t believe me and would give me a hard slap. Because I lived in an area with one of the biggest bus complex centers, no one believed my reason.

But even when I knew I wouldn’t win the school running race, I still participated, at least knowing that I tried. I still miss my school days.

My school computer teacher never really taught us and would just play Harry Potter movies every time. One of my friends was an expert in MS-DOS because he attended a private institute, so only he was allowed to use the PCs. I also went to an internet cafe to learn MS-DOS and picked up a little. One day, instead of playing games, I opened MS-DOS and typed some commands to impress the sir, but he told me to shut it down and never open it again. If he had acknowledged my interest, I believe I would be a better coder today.

During my college days, I spent many months going only to internet cafes. All I did was download as much software as possible and save it on my pen drive, so I could install it later on my home PC because I didn’t have internet at home at that time.

As months and years passed, I spent every day playing video games at the shop, wearing the same dress. Even my gaming friends joked that it was my “duty dress” and asked why I spent so much on games instead of buying new clothes. I knew that if I spent money on clothes, I wouldn’t be able to play games for the next few days.

I was scolded by everyone, family, uncles, aunts, school, and college, for playing video games, but I never stopped. Video games became a part of me. Only in games could I be a hero or a villain, take on different characters, explore new adventures, and see new scenes. There was always something new to explore, and that is what I loved the most.

My father would take me to relatives’ houses, and I already knew they would ask the question, “What are you doing in life?” My father would hint to me that if they asked, I should say something good. I prayed every second that they wouldn’t ask this question and that once their chit-chat was over, we would go home.

But they did ask. I usually said that I was currently not doing anything. After that, you already know what happens. The uncles and aunts would give a long lecture. I was forced to listen, and there was nothing I could do, and there was nothing wrong with that.

I still remember the days when my father once took me to an Agriculture Research Center. We attended a full program for one month. I noticed one thing, the scientists were living normal lives, doing their duties properly and educating farmers at their best. All the students and farmers received free full meals made from their farm, and the food was very tasty.

But I couldn’t see any major improvement in myself in terms of learning. As a student, I felt a little upset but also excited because everything was new to me. In my mind, I thought these were normal scientists, and that felt boring to me. I also didn’t see any mad or evil scientist who would like disrupt everything in their space, someone I could talk to and ask different crazy questions. I wanted to see that kind of scientist, but there was no luck.

Currently, my home looks like a garage, but it is clean. When my relatives visit our house, they ask why we don’t clear and sell the garbage. I point to things and explain that the very rusted scooter wheel was bought with my father’s first salary many years ago. I also show them a box that contains my childhood teeth. Today, I understand that we should never forget where we come from, our roots, and our old struggle days.

One day, I rented a bike service in the morning for some work outside. The person looked at my new clothes and asked what job I was doing. I told him I didn’t have a job. Then he asked how I was managing my life considering my age. I told him I usually get a little pocket money from my home. I also told him not to judge me by my new clothes. I wear the same clothes for six or seven years, like a duty dress, though he didn’t know that. I told him to live with what we currently have instead of focusing on what others are wearing or owning. Happiness cannot be found there. We must create it in our mind with what we have in the present.

Even today, after depositing cash in a bank, it still takes time for the passbook to update. KYC still requires physical photographs and Xerox copies. When you visit an ATM, you are never sure if it will dispense cash or be empty. In a so-called high-tech world, banks still say “server down,” and their net banking systems look old and difficult to use. Even with so much money, these basic problems remain unsolved.

When I see people offering food to the hungry, it is a good thing, but it usually works only for a day or two. I thought about doing this as well, but I realized it is not sustainable. A better approach is to teach, educate, and create work opportunities so people can earn their own daily meals. Real change comes from putting the right energy and time in the right place.

Even today, I observe that even if we invent and give the world the latest and best technology, most people are not ready to adopt it quickly. Every day, I see many new AI companies popping up on the internet, yet we still depend on the same AI platforms. There is no AI powerful enough to create everything or work in every situation, and we know AI is still evolving. A single platform that solves global problems has still not been created.

I hear people saying AI can do this and AI can do that, but it is still weak compared to human intelligence. So I think, why not create an AI that can play any video game? Only in video games are there always new situations, different outcomes every time, and endless challenges. From this, AI can gather unlimited problem-solving data. I believe this kind of AI can beat and disrupt other AI systems.

I still hear people saying that a child has a high IQ and gets invited to big research institutes because there are limited seats, while other students are not selected even if their ideas could create a greater impact. Innovation should never be limited to a few seats. It should be open to all students who want to show their skills, because no one ever knows, maybe the last bench student is the one.

For now, it may be okay that children with high IQs get limited space in high-tech labs to play and innovate. But for the students who are not selected for these programs, they are not limited to one small lab. The world itself is their playground, with endless opportunities behind every door.

Even today, I hear so much noise from vehicle engines and people’s chit-chat that I can’t concentrate. So I choose to work at night and sleep during the day. It feels like I am surrounded by simple people who do 9 to 5 jobs in traditional ways, and that is good for them.

But I always wanted to wander toward something new. Still, life feels black and white. Executing my ideas feels difficult when we can’t even see new things around us. All I ever dreamed of was a silent, big space where I could peacefully innovate and create something that actually solves my problems and others problems too.

Once, I calculated how long a person can live. The simple answer was 100 years, but in today’s world, many people don’t even cross 60. Then I calculated life in months, and I got scared. It felt like there were so few months. We all feel how one month passes like nothing, as if we sleep for three or four times and a month is gone.

From that time, I started working more, and I couldn’t sleep properly. We have so few months to live, and yet I still hadn’t achieved anything in my life. It felt as if we needed a time-travel machine to go to the future and bring advanced technology back to this century. I think we already have a kind of time machine. It is our dreams. When we sleep, dreams can create anything we want, but in the morning, we forget everything when we open our eyes. There is no device to record them.

As days and months passed, nowadays I feel like a glitched version of myself, and I don’t know why. All I want to do is build, not just innovate, but fully disrupt with innovation. Now all I want is to be a disruptor until my last breath.

We all know that when we take our last breath, we cannot take a single penny with us, so thinking only about money doesn’t make sense. Even if we have billions of dollars, they are useless if we don’t live long enough to see new innovations. Then the question is, what would you really do with it?

With limited resources and no team, it feels a bit scary. I might struggle, and that’s okay. This leaves me with only one way, my way. I don’t know if I will succeed or ever become a unicorn one day.

But I believe it is better to be a supporting person in life, so that no one else’s dream is left behind, while we still have time to see new technology and innovations before our last breath, rather than focusing only on building a unicorn company.

(OR) I plant the first stone.