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• Work


• Running 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
  • ○ crypto 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:
    • ○ What's Governance Worth? Ethereum Scaling Tokens Say Billions
    • ○ Large CRV-backed Loans Threaten to Destabilize DeFi
    • ○ Tron Quietly Becomes the Leading Blockchain for Stablecoin Transfers


• 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"


• A few essays from independent writing
  • ○ Productivity Spreadsheet (Aug. 17 2025)
  • ○ Reminder About Language (Aug. 13 2020)


• Context


• 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 in the most important number in the economy.


• 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.
  • ○ The Prize by Daniel Yergin
  • ○ 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
  • ○ 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


• 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

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