I think and write about technology and society. Sometimes I build things too. Things I’m currently pondering:

• How can institutions navigate between stifling bureaucracy and collectivist anarchy?
• How can one create scaffolding between spiritual practice, gestalt therapies, and adjacent modalities?
• What do emerging technologies herald for humanity and the planet?

I graduated in 2022 from MIT with a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in computer science. I’ve also dabbled in economics and philosophy. You can find my complete thesis here, and the thesis-based paper I submitted to AIES here.

In the past, I’ve been a data research analyst at the wonderful Center for Security and Emerging Technology, a researcher for the Metagovernance Project, a policy intern at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and a researcher at the MIT Computational Cognitive Science group.

Intellectual influences of mine include Elinor Ostrom, Nadia Aspourahova, and David Chapman. I am deeply grateful to them and their mutuals for inspiring me and shaping my worldview.

For updates on my writing and projects, join my mailing list. My substack catalogues my wanderlust / adventures around earth. You can also find me on Twitter.

Things I love (and which you should try if you haven’t):

• The soundtrack of Orfeu Negro
• William Butler Yeats (in general)
• Words Without Music
• 蔥油餅加蛋
• Oscar Peterson’s cover of Triste (especially the first ten seconds)
• Riding down a gently sloping hill, hands off the handlebars
• Templehof airfield