i’m motivated by preserving life, progressing humanity, and learning as much as i can about the universe.
from that flows a desire to build a scene where people question how the world works, take truth seriously, and push at the edges of what we know.
i studied philosophy, pre-med, and data science. dabbled in medical + ai research, data engineering, research field-building, university-building, and scene-building.
open science, oss, open knowledge, open everything
inspo list:
- people: richard feynman, steve wozniak, linus torvalds, alan kay, brett victor, niels bohr, ralph waldo emerson, etc.
- places + scenes: royal society, royal institution, homebrew computer club, xerox parc, institute for advanced study, santa fe institute, bell labs
books that left an imprint on me:
- hunger — knut hamsun
- final exam — pauline chen
- nausea — sartre
- against the grain — james c. scott
- the life you can save — peter singer
- the undercover economist — tim harford
- turing’s cathedral — george dyson
writers i admire:
nabokov, hamsun, sartre (fiction only), proust, annie dillard, fitzgerald, camus, baudelaire, sumana roy, patti smith
most curious about:
computation. both the technical path—from abacus to silicon—and the people + periods that made leaps possible. i think it’s one of the most beautiful testaments to human ingenuity. i’m endlessly fascinated by what we’ve built—and what we haven’t yet.