Writing
- Productivity SpreadsheetAug 2025
- Reminder About LanguageAug 2020
- Predictions
- Work
- Ran operations for OurNetwork, 2024-2026
- ○ onchain data research organization
- ○ grew newsletter from 28,000 to 36,000 subscribers
- ○ managed partnerships with $1B+ networks
- ○ developed editorial systems to serve community of 500+ data analysts
- ○ modified Python code to create custom data visualizations (like this one)
- Worked as a reporter for The Defiant, 2021-2023
- ○ media company founded by a Bloomberg alumnus
- ○ produced 750+ articles generating 100,000s of page views
- ○ articles cited in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, William and Mary Law Review, research from ETH Zurich, and more
- ○ interviewed industry leaders like Maria Shen, Nathan Allman, and Fredrik Haga
- ○ Ran livestreams with guests like Anatoly Yakovenko, Alex Krüger, and Ian Rogers
- select articles:
- Worked as a research analyst for TruStory, 2019
- ○ debate platform backed by Coinbase Ventures, Pantera, and True Ventures
- ○ wrote debate content to grow platform engagement
- ○ channeled user feedback into product decisions
- Projects
- Prototyping an AI matching layer for online communities, Graph
- ○ Creates profiles of people's goals, skills, and interests in the context of a subgroup
- ○ Matches people with opportunities based on their interests
- ○ Awarded a BlueDot Rapid Grant, 2026
- Made/making productivity app, Front Burner (explainer)
- ○ A central place to visually manage the shifting priorities that come up in the day-to-day
- ○ Demo running here
- ○ Arrived at Front Burner independently through personal experience, but crosses over with concepts of "structured procrastination" and "second brains"
- About
- Core beliefs
- ○ We rarely need more "content." We need the right information delivered to us with appropriate context such that we know it's what's actually important.
- ○ People tend to choose the hierarchies they identify with based on whether they're winning in that hierarchy.
- ○ The US-10-year rate is the most important number in the economy.
- Has a few hobbies
- ○ basketball: league (highlights: 1,2,3) and pickup
- ○ chess
- Some favorite books + personal takes from them
- Behave by Robert Sapolsky
- People tend to identify with the hierarchies in which they're more dominant. For example, at the staff softball game for a biomedical research organization, the janitor, if skilled, will choose to identify with his skill in the sport, rather than ability to produce insights of scientific value.
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- You can work your whole life on something only to have people dismiss your work in one sentence and never think about it again.
- ○ Deep Work by Cal Newport
- ○ Central Banking 101 by Joseph Wang
- ○ Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
- ○ Understanding Michael Porter by Joan Magretta
- ○ Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
- ○ All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- ○ How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
- ○ Product Management in Practice by Matt LeMay
- ○ A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley
- The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
- Wittgenstein spent years trying to design the perfect house and was still unsatisfied with it. It's better to simply operate in a given field, continually getting better, than to try to enter a field with a masterpiece.
- ○ Doing Good Better by William MacAskill
- ○ The End of the World is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan
- ○ Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham
- ○ Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- ○ Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert
- ○ So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
- ○ When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
- ○ The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman
- ○ Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- ○ Chip War by Chris Miller
- ○ The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil
- ○ The Master Switch by Tim Wu
- ○ The Information by James Gleick
- ○ Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark
- Behave by Robert Sapolsky
- Formal education
- ○ BA in Economics from University of California Santa Cruz, Honors
- ○ Regret declining acceptance to UC San Diego
- select classes:
- ○ International Finance
- ○ Introduction to Programming (Accelerated)
- ○ Securities Markets
- ○ Policy Issues in the International Economy
- ○ Two years of Japanese coursework including study abroad in Tokyo
- ○ Applied Business Calculus
- ○ Economics of E-Commerce
- ○ Economic Rhetoric
- ○ One year of Spanish and one year of French
