⚙ Ambition. The world is full of cool opportunities and experiences. I love finding them— they make for good memories, loving relationships, and impact.
🤓 Levity. I try not to take myself too seriously; life's too short to not be goofy.
🌎 Purpose. I'm getting better at achieving calm and understanding myself each day. The least I can do is to then spend intentional time helping others and the world.

More recently, I've started to isolate my personal mission; here's my current formulation:

To bring happiness and fulfillment to those around me and to those beyond me, as a result of my own actions and also my contributions to something bigger than myself.

In my free time, I love to play games (Catan, Texas Hold'em, and Smash are some of my favorites!), try new recipes 👨🏼‍🍳, and I'm working on reflecting more often.

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👨🏽‍💻 Work

🗣 What I do

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I'm passionate about people, the problems they face, and the products that can solve them. I'm interested in technology, education, and entrepreneurship because of their ability to create scalable, sustainable impact. Here are my working theories on the solutions I want to build in each space:

On education:

Creating educational models, tools, and institutions whose incentives are aligned with learners', and that emphasize and foster independent and empathetic thinking.

On entrepreneurship:

Enabling and empowering people, especially young people, to dream bigger and create better. This entails fostering intentional entrepreneurship, removing structural barriers to entry, and creating the tools to support this effort.

With strong, loosely held opinions and an engineering background, I feel comfortable forming and developing ideas within technical and human constraints (but outside self-imposed ones), especially when surrounded with inspiring teammates.