Vivek's August / September Newsletter
buildspace - Sensofit | Art/nature walk | A trip to Swanage | UK's largest agritech farm | TKS Activate | Back to school
🥳Meet Me🥳
Hi, my name is Vivek Kommi, I am a 15-year-old from Cambridge, UK. I am crazy about upcoming technologies like Quantum Computing, AI, Nanotech, Robotics, IoT, and much more! And I am super driven by impact so now I am working on projects I’m super passionate about in the realm of obesity treatment and diagnostics. I am building a new biosensor for counting calories 2x more efficiently.
Buildspace - Sensofit
Over these 2 months, I have been working on a personal project I am very passionate about. The buildspace program propelled it and I had the chance to get advice and feedback throughout the process as I built a lot over a short period of time. The whole memo of the program of buildspace is: “Build your idea over six weeks.”
Ok - but what is Sensofit?
It’s an AI personal trainer(with a complementary smart ring) that can track your body composition progress and calorie deficit data gathered by a smart ring that gives you personalized and automated advice to optimize your weight loss journey.
It uses a Sensofit sensor to calculate body composition data and map calorie expenditure 2x more accurately.
Links:
https://sensofit.framer.ai/ —> Project Website
If you are interested, make sure you sign up for the waitlist on the website or contact me, I would love to chat about it!
I managed to make so much - like a working chatbot and an AI fitness generator.
UK’s biggest agri-tech farm
I recently went to one of the largest farms in the UK based in Cambridge which is home to more than 1000 cows and 500 sheep. I was invited by one of my greatest friends in Cambridge and one of my mentors - Kittu Johthi. I was toured around and shown many interesting technologies like a massive anaerobic digester that generates the farm all of its electricity.
TKS Activate
Many of you may know the program I went to for the entirety of last year that completely transformed my life and also one of the very reasons I am writing this newsletter. I am truly grateful to them for changing my mindset and skillset to pave my path to creating an impact in the future. It is an accelerator program for teens so they can solve the world’s biggest problems with emerging technology. I did the first year program and now is time for the next year. It’s where we ACTUALLY make an impact and get a project out there whilst taking into account economic incentives…
Last year was filled with growth, going to the Villars Symposium in Switzerland, creating a moonshot to cure type 2 diabetes, etc…
We have only commenced with 3 sessions so far but I already see the potential in this year. And I am very privileged to have Olympic-level innovator coaches to help me through this - Mikaela Ergas Lennett and Max Newlon.
Art Nature Walk
As it was the holidays I had the free time to be adventurous; go to the beach; and also get to have unique experiences like this one.
Surprisingly very close to where I live is a very scenic 10km walk that Is meant to depict a piece of art. There were many signs of beautiful architecture and underground caves.
A trip to Swanage | Back to school
Obviously, as I go to secondary school - the school year begins. This means according to the UK school system, I have my GSCE’s the single most important set of exams that determine my 6th form college. And to kick off the year - the Geography department encouraged us to go on a Geography trip to Swanage. It was a blast, and very scenic. Though now reflecting - time management with TKS and school will be critical.
The key takeaways/insights from these months:
Connect your child self to other’s child self🐣 - By doing this it makes any boring or regular conversation much more energetic and joyous and most of the time you get the best results out of it and draw the best insights.
It’s not only a solo game🤺 - You may be going through experiences you may think no one ever would experience but you are wrong. by exposing yourself, you are opening yourself up to a world of serendipity where the best-case scenario is immense.
Always iterate🔁 - Farza, the founder of buildspace introduced me to this concept. If you are not engaging people with constant updates you will lose most of them, it’s a simple rule of thumb in business. If you iterate and fail fast, you get feedback quicker and grow 10x