A Day in the Life of Jeehae Park, Ph.D.

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My Bucket List for Writing

This is my bucket list for writing as the very first “Hello World” post. If anyone of you reading this resonate with any of the items, please reach out. Perhaps we can fill that bucket together.

  1. I would like to publish a book. (or three)
  2. I would like to record all the memorable moments and human experiences that cannot be captured by photo or video
  3. I would like to do a deep dive in soul searching. Who am I? It can be intensely philosophical and/or practical such as personal branding
  4. I want to write stories for my kids to find out later. I don’t think I know much about my own parents and their history. I know that it will be difficult for my own kiddo too for various reasons.
  5. I want to keep record of happy moments – something you might want to remember on your last days.
  6. I want to be helpful to folks who walks along the path later than I do. Or even the peers who live in the same time/world. We don’t share much about the experiences and wisdom as much in the modern world – sharing is scary in the world of social media, cancel culture, national/international shaming, and the world of AI. But over and over again, I found that sharing is the first step for connecting with other human and more often than expected, I have meaningful human experience out of those.
  7. I am an avid podcast listener. Sometimes though, I feel like I am done listening to other people’s stories. I feel the need to focus on my stories sometimes.
  8. I am really good at not hesitating to act when I identify that a thing needs to be done with obviousness. I am not too bad at collecting info and think through and drawing conclusion. What I lack is after all that, I don’t sit back and reflect. That’s where my loop of growth is broken. I am hoping to fill the gap by writing more.
  9. After having a kid, I feel a bit like that my life is drifting (in a lovely direction). I love the family life with a young kid and quite frankly barely keeping up with all that needs to be done. But I know that if I do not deliberately focus on what matters to me and work towards it, I will be swamped and just be carried away.
  10. My father was a great story teller. I am not a bad story teller either. I love good stories and interesting stories. I come across them often and sometimes don’t have enough people around to share. I care about sources a lot. I want to write some digest with source attached and publish.
  11. I am a bit jealous about university professors that they have a lab webpage. I kind of want to have something like that to consolidate my resources. I’ll be happy to give adhoc lectures time to time as opportunity permits.
  12. I want to cultivate success for myself and my community. No one can achieve greatness by themselves. I would like to build a community. I would like to help connect people to the people they need to get connected. Working in academia for 15 years, living in Boston for 14 years and working in Pharma/Biotech industry for 6 years, I have lot of pearls and crystals but they needs to be assembly in a right way. I am hoping that writing will help me get me there.
  13. I gave birth to my child when I was 42 years old. I am a bit mad about how people don’t really understand why people don’t “want” to have children in the modern world. As an adult, I feel responsibility to make this world a better place for the future generation including my own child. So that she doesn’t have to go through this madness of how humans reproduce in the 2020s’ I don’t know what I can do. But I want to find a way by writing about it.
  14. I am genuinely curious about how other people live. One of my favorite podcast was “Work” that tracks day to day life of people having various jobs. I am curious about how my friends actually live in their day to day. I can perhaps interview people. And I can also write about myself – although no one has asked.
  15. I want to write interesting stories in interesting ways. I want to write important things in engaging manner. I want all of my writing to have the meat, a juicy one. (Sorry my vegetarian friends for the analogy). I don’t want to write whole bunch of nothing that just beats around the bush. I don’t want to write anything that AI could have written. There has to be something genuine and personal.
  16. I’m mindful of risk of putting my writings out there. For decades I have been worried about my words being misunderstood. I also worry about making mistakes too. But I think benefit is greater than the risk. And I will do my best to manage the risks.
  17. I look forward to a fuller and richer life through writing!