10: Oishe Farhan - Visualizing Meditation With Technology

That Thing I Did For A Year

This week's episode we have Oishe Farhan (ECE) sharing his experience combining his interests in neurotechnology and mindfulness in a year working at InteraXon, creators of the Muse brainwave sensing headband.

Notes

0:21 - Going to high school at TOPS and how he ended up studying ECE, discovering neurotechnology through first years at UofT and starting a club for it!

7:40 - Deepening involvement in the NeuroTech club through second and third year, doing somewhat related work Montreal

9:00 - The start of the story of his PEY, not originally planning to do anything for more than just the summer

12:30 - Meeting the Muse CTO at a talk and finding a job just before he would've gone back to school; what Muse is

18:35 - Research buzz around meditation coinciding with working on it

27:14 - His personal experience getting more into meditation, comparing it to Sherlock Holmes investigation

33:01 - Day-to-day type of work, some of the open ended demo projects he got to make, including one that featured at the G7!!

41:05 - New perspectives, related to pacing, on coming back to school, different courses he's taking now

52:39 - The urge to travel, especially during university, and how meditation satisfies that for him

Links

Wait But Why article about Neuralink