I like making projects and unusual experiments.
One of my life's greatest joys is working on interesting and creative projects. Here's what I'm up to: give a holler if you're interested in collaborating on any of them!
Actively Working On
Exponent
Help people land their dream tech jobs. Forbes 30 Under 30, 2022.
Ongoing Projects
Interpersonal.com
Resources and tools for improving interpersonal dynamics and communication.
Coming Soon
Notable Projects
Clipper Card Wearable
I melted a clipper card and made it wearable. 2017.
Artistic Projects
- Photographic Recursion: what happens when you take a photo of a photo of a photo…?Medium Editor's Pick
- Me-Shirt: How I made a t-shirt to talk to strangersRead More
Social Projects
- Hummingbird: a friendship matchmaking service for San FranciscansRead More
- Blindfold Party: five insights from the darknessRead More
- Philosophical Potluck: bring a dish that relates to an "ism"Read More
- Crying Party: sitting around and crying with friends, on purposeRead More
Software & Other
- Hacking HQ Trivia: A Python script that auto-Googles HQ Trivia questions.Featured in The Verge, NY Mag, and Hacker News
- International Collegiate Science Journal: First Publication. 2015.Kickstarter | Website | First Publication | Press
Favorite Quotes
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
"It's the wanting to know that makes us matter."
My Interests
Here's a non-exhaustive list of things I'm fascinated by or interested in! If you're particularly interested in any of these topics (and especially if you're interested in the intersection of these topics), please reach out. I'd love to collaborate.
Things I like to analyze
- Film & TV
- Interpersonal Dynamics
- Conversations
Things I like to do and think about
- Surfing
- Meditation
- Teaching
Causes I care about
- Death and Dying
- Aging
- Mixed Race (I am biracial)
- Suicide Prevention
Topics that make me feel alive
- Meaning-making
- Paradoxes
In no particular order.