Today
- Employee #1 at BreatheEV, building the most seamless vertical EV charging experience ever.
- Supporting small businesses across the valley through the Arizona Microcredit Initiative.
- Founding Helios Ventures, Arizona's first student-run venture fund.
- Furthering artificial intelligence + education through OpenAI's ChatGPT Student Lab.
- Studying economics at Arizona State.
Yesterday
- AI strategy at SAP Signavio. Focused on process intelligence and how agentic AI can identify operational inefficiencies at scale.
- Sold a lot of stuff online as employee #1 at SCORE NN'. E-commerce is tough, but meaningful. My first real foray into startups and the Arizona tech ecosystem.
- Learned a bunch at a neurorobotics lab. Explored going to medical school for a significant amount of time, decided against it.
- Coordinated many blood drives and raised a lot of money in high school. Discovered that mobilizing people around shared goals is harder and more important than most academic work (and also discovered that I enjoyed it more).
- Figured out how to travel extensively for free through various conferences and competitions.
Books
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow [Gabrielle Zevin]
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist [Mohsin Hamid]
- Steve Jobs [Walter Isaacson]
- Wonder [R. J. Palacio]
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, Or How to Build the Future [Blake Masters, Peter Thiel]
- The Scout Mindset [Julia Galef]
Places
- SoHo, Manhattan
- Princeton, New Jersey
- Palo Alto, California
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Barcelona, Spain
Visual Media
- Interstellar [Christopher Nolan]
- Star Wars [George Lucas]
- The Social Network [David Fincher]
- Avatar: The Last Airbender [Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko]
- Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber [Brian Koppelman, David Levien]
- Iron Man [John Favreau]
Songs
- Do The Dance [Sid Sriram]
- Tsunami [Suzuki Saint]
- Cherry Wine [grentperez]
- Headlines [Drake]
- Locked out of Heaven [Bruno Mars]
- Line Without a Hook [Ricky Montgomery]
- Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call [Bleachers]
- La Isla Bonita [Madonna]
Artists
- Bruno Mars
- ABBA
- Coldplay
Coffee
- La Cabra
- Happy Joe Coffee
- Le Market
- Black Rock Coffee
Games
- Secret Hitler
- Catan
- Exploding Kittens
- Texas Hold'em
please send me recommendations.
All views are exclusively my own and do not represent those of any of past or present employers.