me

github

web, finance

things i like

alphabetical

• academics who dedicate time and effort towards educating the public ¹
• analogies ²
• asian food
• bill evans
• books
• coffee (preferrably cold brew or drip)
• comics (calvin and hobbes, the manhattan projects, one piece)
• computers
• conversations that start with “I have a theory that…“
• cs
• dbz
• digital art (cyberpunk, fantasy, mindscapes, sci-fi)
• dreams and the subconscious
• economics
• emergence
• ephemerality
• examples
• films sci-fi (blade runner 2049, dune, inception, the matrix)
• glenn gould
• god ³
• guerilla ontology and cognitive dissonance
• have one on me
• hearing people speak their native language after only knowing their english-speaking side
• incomprehensibility
• indeterminability
• internet
• journaling
• lecture notes that are freely available online
• libgen
• life
• math
• multisubculturalism
• myths
• obsession
• oneness
• overcoming
• neuro
• philosophy
• physics
• product
• programming
• quotes
• reconciliation
• redemption
• religion ³
• seasonality
• self-awareness
• sci-hub
• space
• surrealist stories that are real
• startups
• symbols
• team sports ⁴
• textbooks
• unmerited grace
• vim
• vocal harmonies
• walkable cities (hk, london, nyc, paris, singapore, tokyo, toronto)
• wikipedia

work and study

reverse chronological

• web at a financial tech company
• taking a break from startups
• took some more classes in math and cs for “fun” (i.e. abstract algebra, combinatorics, algorithms, numerical analysis)
• more startups (marketplace)
• startups (social)
• private equity (every industry except tech, gambling, and addictive substances)
• management consulting (pe, banking, mining, energy)
• got accepted into medical school
• research intern in neurology lab
• mcat tutor
• undergrad: studied a bit of everything (biology, chemistry, physics, math, cs, econ) but focused on the brain
• desserts chef and milkshake-maker at a diner (last job as a teenager)
• book binding (second job as a teenager)
• killed mosquitos (first job as a teenager)