An only works on problems that affect billions of people, ideas that bend the arc. He is not good at it, but it’s what excites him.
✱ An is currently working on + writing at Chrona.nyc –– an AI interface lab to magnify the human spirit.
✱ Stupid Thoughts my personal blog! Built so you can explore my brain :)
✱ The Mars Rover at the Jet Propulsion Lab––Member of the Ops Lab, NASA’s experimental technology lab.
✱ The Farm to unite the most powerful + succesful young builders in the world. Exited founders, foreign dignitaries, influential forces of nature under the age of 26.
✱ Logseq to give everyone in the world tools to think, know, and learn more about their world. Funded by Nat Friedman, Patrick Collison, Tobi Lutke, a16z, Craft, USV + more, serving hundreds of thousands of academics, enginers, and beautiful humans.
In the future, he wants to do a few things:
✱ Build big shit
✱ Become untouchable, inevitable
✱ Set a new bar for craft and beauty
✱ Build AGI + BCIs to allow humans to fully utilize it
✱ Create a new cultural narrative of Hustle x Capitalism x Romance. Do important work, but also enjoy the ride. Life is a game. Life is a romance. Have some fun.
He maximizes 2 things in life: fun and impact.
TLDR of Life Recently...
built a few companies, traveled the world for a year, moved to NYCCurrently working on...
✱ Exploring AI to find which place on the frontier to play. Looking to learn a lot and create more positive impact on the world than any single person before me.
✱ The Farm to make a home for the most successful young people (exited founders, foreign dignitaries, influential forces of nature under 26) and enable them to go bigger and have some fun
✱ advising Stability AI to democratize the future of AI
✱ My Blog! to help people live romantically, do more good, dream bigger, get there faster, and live a life they dreamed of. (subscribe here)
✱ Random Businesses because they’re fun! some:
- a 7 figure amazon store
- an app to plan your day according to you goals that is beautiful + playful
- a podcast about life’s hacks and cheat codes
✱ Learning Lots of Random Games (click to explore)
Muay Thai, AI, writing online, sales, developing taste, being generous, board sports, BCIs
One of my favorite lessons:
People don’t know shit.
Live your own life.
His past includes:
✱ engineering + designing rover software at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (Mars 2020 mission)
✱ founding a 10 person company called Logseq, raising $4.1m from a16z, Craft, USV, Matrix, Patrick Collison, Tobi Lutke + more, and helping hundreds of thousands of academics, engineers and beautiful humans think better.
✱ traveling the world for 16 months (favorites: Iceland, Tokyo, Bali and Mexico City <3)
✱ starting a paid community called Verci to enable more young people to “drop out” and chase dreams they actually care about
✱ starting a 100 person non profit in high school to equalize access to opportunity by giving thousands of low income students free tutoring
✱ studying computer science + neuroscience + design + economics @ Northeastern... but dropped out :/
✱ trying his very best to maintain sanity, clear skin, and his childlike view of the world... he turns 24 years 👴🏻 OLD this year that old fart
His future includes:
making elon musk look like a child.
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