About

For most of my Year 12 peers, February 2026 marked the beginning of their final and most intense academic chapter. For me, it marked the exact time I decided to throw out the conventional Year 12 script and write my own.

Being in the unique and fortunate position of completing enough final exams in Year 11 to secure my tertiary education, I was faced with a hard choice of what to do in 2026. I could have skipped Year 12 and gone straight to university to study a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Melbourne one year earlier than the rest of my peers. I could have decided to complete Year 12 to the best of my academic abilities so I could obtain higher academic credibility and graduate with my cohort.

However, looming on the horizon of 2026 was the rapidly growing cultural phenomenon that is artificial intelligence; with the potential to economically, socially and structurally disrupt society to magnitudes that have never been seen before, I realised how vital it would be to start learning how to use AI. I decided to spend my Year 12 focusing on the real-world applications and intersection between AI and business. What I wasn’t aware of at the time was how much this decision would change my life.

Before 2026, I always thought that I would end up working in the financial sector. My dream was to work as a portfolio manager, helping manage money for my clients and working with the financial markets, which was my passion for a very long time. Only time will tell if I return to the financial sector and I’m certainly not ruling that out because the development of financial literacy during my exploration of the industry was one of the most rewarding skills I have developed.

Now, I have very little doubt in my mind that I will spend the foreseeable future working with AI. AI has amplified my abilities to make tangible impacts on the world and it has that capability for anyone that has access to it. I love working together with AI to identify and solve business problems. The abilities of humankind will not be replaced, but amplified with AI for those that can point it in the right direction, as I have experienced firsthand and I encourage everyone to work with AI to solve problems that were once thought not worth the trouble of solving. My goal over the next few years is to work towards building a global, purpose-driven company on the premise of solving just one problem that can help improve lives, and everything I have been doing since February 2026 has been working towards that goal.