I am a builder and researcher based in New York City. I work on AI Engineering at Polymarket.
I previously did Strategy + Operations at Nous Research and did investment research at Distributed Global, a $2B digital assets fund. In college, I studied classical music, neuroscience, and computers, and built Vanderbilt Blockchain from the ground up. I am highly curious, highly competitive, and love art.
First newsletter for AI Agents; a direct-to-agent newsletter of curated skills, packages, and features to allow personal agents to passively level up hands-free.
An RL environment based on Word Hunt, which trains a model to find valid sequences under spatial/combinatorial constraints.
Books and films are some of my favorite things in the world.
These are stories I carry with me. The greats have an * for emphasis.
Currently Reading: Dark Age by Pierce Brown
| Name | Author |
|---|---|
| Blindsight | Peter Watts |
| Devil Takes The Hindmost | Edward Chancellor |
Doing Good Better  | Will McAskill |
Dune  | Frank Herbert |
| East of Eden | John Steinbeck |
| Einstein’s Dreams | Alan Lightman |
| Elon Musk | Walter Isaacson |
| Iron Gold Trilogy* | Pierce Brown |
| Lonesome Dove* | Larry McMurty |
| Never Let Me Go* | Kazuo Ishiguro |
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest  | Ken Kesey |
| Read, Write, Own | Chris Dixon |
Red Rising Trilogy*  | Pierce Brown |
| Sacred Knowledge | William A. Richards |
| Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari |
| Shoe Dog | Phil Knight |
| The Celestine Prophecy | James Redfield |
| The Fountainhead* | Ayn Rand |
The Hard Thing About Hard Things  | Ben Horowitz |
| The Name of the Wind* | Patrick Rothfuss |
| The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| The Wise Man’s Fear | Patrick Rothfuss |
| Thinking in Bets | Annie Duke |
| Why We Sleep | Matthew Walker |
| Name | Year |
|---|---|
Challengers  | 2024 |
Django Unchained*  | 2012 |
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham  | 2001 |
Logan  | 2017 |
Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)  | 2001 |
Mid90s  | 2018 |
Mind Game  | 2004 |
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood  | 2019 |
Project X  | 2012 |
School Of Rock  | 2003 |
Straight Outta Compton  | 2015 |
Superbad  | 2007 |
The Dark Knight*  | 2008 |
The Hateful Eight (Extended)  | 2015 |
The Karate Kid  | 1984 |
The Lego Movie*  | 2014 |
The Pianist*  | 2002 |
Udaan  | 2010 |
I love all kinds of museums. These are my favorites from those I've visited so far.
| Name | Location |
|---|---|
| EPIC (The Irish Emigration Museum) | Dublin |
| Frist Art Museum | Nashville |
| Moco Museum | Amsterdam |
| Picasso Museum | Barcelona |
| STRAAT (Street Art) Museum | Amsterdam |
| Tate Modern | London |
| The British Museum | London |
| The Guggenheim | New York |
| The National WWII Museum | New Orleans |
| Vatican Museums | Vatican City |
I'm an avid fan of stand-up comedy. These are my favorite comics and their best specials.
| Name of Special | Comic |
|---|---|
| I Got This | Sam Morrill |
| Live from Austin | Shane Gillis |
| Live in Sacramento | Geoffrey Asmus |
| Ooh La La | Phil Hanley |
| Out To Lunch | Mark Normand |
| This Year’s Material | Joe List |
Fantastic productions of an underappreciated art form.
| Name | Composer | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Hamilton | Lin-Manuel Miranda | 2015 |
| The Lion King | Elton John & Tim Rice | 1997 |
| The Book of Mormon | Trey Parker, Matt Stone & Robert Lopez | 2011 |
Exceptionally cogent presentations/posts on interesting topics under 30min; gems of knowledge on the internet.
| Resource | Topic |
|---|---|
| The Opportunity for Specialized Stablecoin Fintechs | Fintech |
| Why do humans like jazz? (Evolution of music, entropy, and physics of neurons) | Music, Evolution, Neuroscience |
| Tokens are broken: a conversation about structural problems in token markets | Internet Financial System |
| Status-as-a-Service | Social Networks |
| But how does bitcoin actually work? | Bitcoin |
| Notes on Space GPUs | AI Scaling, Energy |
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Spend an hour and learn one good magic trick. The ROI is massive.
Must have as a young Texan.
In 2009 I traded this piggy bank for 100 BTC. Haven't sold a penny.
Around the world, around the wor-uld, around the world, around the wor-uld...
The hand icons on the top of my page are the Master Hand from Super Smash Bros franchise. Double click on them!
Gave up karate to get serious about video games. Former top ranked Pokemon Showdown and SMITE player.