Exploring AI Beyond Work: From Personal Projects to Industry Insights

Over the past year, my journey with AI has taken on a new dimension. While I’ve always loved applying AI in my professional life, I’ve recently been experimenting with different tools outside of work—and it has been an eye-opening experience.

• Building for Friends and Family

  • Using platforms like Loveable, I’ve been able to build web pages and simple web apps for friends and family.

  • These projects have required no coding expertise, yet they’ve allowed me to create things I never imagined I could.

  • Each project has deepened my understanding of how AI functions at a practical level.

• Expanding Into AI Agents

  • More recently, I’ve started experimenting with Lindy, where I’ve been building AI agents.

  • This hands-on work has reinforced my shift toward an AI-first mindset, where AI isn’t just a tool but a default starting point for problem solving.

  • The creative freedom of these side projects has sharpened my ability to think about workflows differently—translating directly into ideas for improving clinical operations at work.

• Bridging Personal Learning and Professional Growth

  • These outside-of-work explorations have given me a new appreciation for how AI can simplify complexity, reduce manual effort, and scale solutions.

  • In our intermediate-to-advanced AI network meetings, I’ve had the chance to meet with companies building AI tools with significant potential for the clinical trial space.

  • The conversations often echo my personal experiments: how to take powerful AI capabilities and apply them to real-world workflows in impactful, scalable ways.

Reflections

Exploring AI in my personal life has:

• Expanded my technical curiosity and creative problem-solving.

• Strengthened my ability to connect the dots between emerging tools and real clinical trial needs.

• Reinforced the importance of cultivating an AI-first mindset across both personal and professional domains.

The most exciting part is that these two paths—personal exploration and professional application—are reinforcing each other. Every new tool I test in my free time sparks ideas for improving workflows at work, while every industry conversation pushes me to experiment more outside the office. Together, they are shaping my evolution into someone who doesn’t just use AI but actively creates with it.