I live in New York San Francisco where I’m building an AI startup.

*The below was last updated in 2024:

things i want to build (or see built)

• a tool that organizes our thoughts
• a web browser that understands what it’s looking at
• hardware that solves the human bandwidth problem
• a marketplace for compute
• a proactive assistant

• many more

things that matter to me

• artificial intelligence
  • de-necessitate AGI by augmenting humans and solving the bandwidth constraint
• clean energy
  • increasing energy usage per capita has enormous downstream benefits
• space
  • colonization, mining, and manufacturing
• longevity
  • tons of promising research held up in academia and regulation
• productivity
  • improve human proactiveness, memory, and organization

favorite reads

short stories

The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant by Nick Bostrom

The Last Question by Isaac Asimov