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.
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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