A social entrepreneur from Myanmar running a social enterprise I founded 13 years ago helping food producers and farmers with technical solutions. I live alone in Yangon and devoting most of my time on the causes I care about. Jazz enthusiast, amateur golfer and TEDx speaker living contentedly with 3 cats in Yangon.

If you are interested in my professional life, my personal website can be found at: https://www.kyawthuhtet.com

Cheers!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to seek perspectives of different human beings from different communities with different groupthink, rituals (call it culture or otherwise) while they have different resources and opportunities endowed.

Interests

• books
• classical music
• sociology
• life
• buddhism
• truth
• myanmar
• jazz music
• justice
• intelligence
• evolutionary biology
• social equity
• complexity
• epistemology
• ontology

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Bob James, Chet Baker, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi, Chris Botti, Bille Joel, Cool and The Gang, The Beatles, Damien Rice; Earth, Wind and Fire are some of them.

Normally I balance my life between Jazz and Classical. When I feel too chaotic, I listen to classicals to give me a bit of order/structure. When I feel too ordered, I listen to Jazz to make me a little fluid and spontaneous. Anything else in between is bonus.

Movies: Any thought-provoking movies and documentaries

Books: I’ll let you have a look at my Kindle let you comment if we happen to meet

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Led a college football team to win back to back championship in Singapore.

Met 3 Nobel Laureates. One of them is POTUS and the other one, perplexed by my existentialist question, is a NASA astrophysicist/cosmologist from James Webb Space Telescope.

Teach, Learn, Share

As an INFJ, I think I have a lot of serious topics to share when I meet with someone I can meaningfully connect.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My experiences of running a social enterprise in one of the least developed countries.

In broader sense, the path how I came to see the (ultimate, not relative) truth, how it sets me free to do more fulfilling things in life other than chasing material wealth. Not surprisingly, I see this trend in many backpacker travelers and I found it really fascinating.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, England, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Scotland, Singapore, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Myanmar, Singapore