I'm an AI engineer interested in building tools that help folks make better decisions. I love reading the history of modern thought, especially the genealogy of ideas we take for granted. I backcountry ski, trad climb, and bike tour. Right now, I'm on a sabbatical doing all three!
Personal Projects
- Sprig: Aggregates and intelligently categorizes spending for better budgeting.
- BookClawb: Conversationally quizzes about books from a Goodreads shelf.
- Mosaic: Assembles personal data into a dashboard for weekly introspection.
- SavvySuds: Recommends beer using trading behavior from users of The Beer Exchange.
Favorite Books
- Triumph of the City by Edward L. Glaeser: Cities are an ingenuity engine but we have to design incentives that enable them to flourish, not wither
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang: Runaway intelligence, linguistics, theology, neurology - these short stories are the very best of science fiction
- AI Engineering by Chip Huyen: You can't trust your fancy AI system without thoughtful evaluations
- The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop: A shared dream of human-computer symbiosis rallied teams of brilliant misfits to invent the networked computer
- Conquerors by Roger Crowley: Tales of bravery and ignorance from the Age of Exploration
- Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel: You can't understand modern China without learning about Deng
- Hero of Two Worlds by Mike Duncan: Lafayette is proof that you can be both great and good
- Why the West Rules--for Now by Ian Morris: A surprisingly quantitative history of the rise and fall of civilizations
Getting Outside
