About

Beliefs that I hold strongly:

• Learning is the second most important skill you can develop in life

  • It's a superpower to be able to repeatedly and reliably explore, triangulate, and understand new disciplines

• Gratitude is the most important skill

  • Gratitude isn't something that is passively felt during good times, but something that must be actively exercised during challenging times

• Most disciplines (from the natural sciences to the arts) are burdened by needless complexity

  • The Design, Terminology, and Pedagogy of these disciplines are intentionally made complex in order to make the practitioners appear smarter

• Advertising is evil

  • Modern advertising is subtle, manipulative, and algorithmically optimized to coerce large portions of the population
  • The advertising business model has ruined the modern internet and destroyed people's finances
  • It's called an "advertising campaign" because it is an assault on your mind and your wallet.
  • There are tools to effectively fight against this; no person needs to ever be exposed to digital advertising again.

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Professionally, I'm an organic chemist and software engineer.

Now I mostly just build software, because it's impractical to have a fully stocked wet lab in my house.

I'm interested in proteomics/ enzymology, machine learning, language modeling, hardware, and robotics.

I joined in 2017 to design their GMP manufacturing laboratory and data pipelines. I also launched a couple B2B SaaS products- in 2020 I built Quartet , paving the way for standardized medical cannabis testing data in California. In 2022, I built Palm , a project management platform for condos.