No Knowledge is a Waste
Something you learned years ago, which you never thought could be useful in your life, might be the very reason you are where you are today. Believe it or not, no knowledge can be deemed wasteful.
There will be times when you feel that a particular subject being taught has no relevance to your life. You might be right, but I wager you’d only be right as long as you haven’t found a use for that knowledge.
The application of knowledge is considered wisdom. To be wise, you first need to be informed. More importantly, what you learn now may serve as a foundation for understanding subjects you encounter in the future. Your grasp of current topics might be influenced by what you’ve learned in the past.
As they say, you can only connect the dots looking backward, so don’t dismiss what you’re learning now. Even if you struggle with current topics, don’t regard them as entirely useless. Once you’ve been introduced to a concept, do your best to absorb as much as possible. Exposure to information (knowledge) shapes your worldview and significantly influences how you live your life.
Remember, just because something seems irrelevant to you now doesn’t mean it will always be so.
Dr. Ehoneah Obed (Pharmacist, Software Engineer, Health Informatician, Founder)
My work focuses on identity engineering, which is the deliberate process of designing and updating who you are, personally and professionally.
Most people experience identity as something fixed or accidental. It is shaped by parents, early success or failure, education, and society’s definition of what a “good life” looks like. They adapt to it rather than questioning it. What most people do not realize is that identity is not just something you discover. It is something you can actively engineer.
Personal identity engineering is about gaining control over how your beliefs, values, and self-concept are formed and reinforced.
Professional identity engineering is about translating that internal identity into skills, work, leverage, and visible contribution in the world.
When people feel stuck, it is rarely because they lack motivation or talent. It is because they are trying to change outcomes while leaving the underlying identity system untouched. Careers stall. Confidence collapses. Direction feels unclear. The system keeps producing the same results.
I learned this by rebuilding myself multiple times.
I trained as a pharmacist for six years. While working in hospitals, I began learning to code alongside my job. That led to building real software, selling products, transitioning into software engineering, completing a master’s degree in health informatics at the University of Toronto, and now building startups and systems full time. Each transition followed the same pattern. My identity did not change because I thought differently. It changed because I took specific actions that produced new evidence, and that evidence forced a new story about who I was capable of being.
That is the core mechanism behind identity engineering.
Identity updates when you intentionally generate evidence that contradicts your old self-image, then compound that evidence until the old identity can no longer run the system.
This blog is where I document that process. I write about how to design identity experiments that are small, controlled, and reversible. How to build proof-of-work that changes both how you see yourself and how the world responds to you. How to move forward without waiting for clarity, confidence, or permission.
This is not motivation and it is not coaching. It is systems thinking applied to human change.
I also write The Ledger, a weekly record of systems and experiments for building a life you own.
And I built the Identity Audit, a diagnostic tool that helps you understand your current identity state before you attempt to change it.
I am not presenting a finished theory. I am engineering this in real time, using my own life as the test environment. If you want more agency over who you are becoming, both personally and professionally, you are in the right place.
