Retaining Agency
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My plans for writing for the remainder of 2026
I’m returning from my hiatus in writing on Substack!
This year has been incredibly fulfilling thus far. Despite the dearth of writing on Substack, I’ve had a productive sprint in my work. I’ve setup a website this year where I’m maintainin...
2025 Report
At the start of April this year, I wrote a reflective journaling + grading myself + future facing type public diary in my “report” below. I never followed up with Q2 or Q3, but in comfortable post-hoc rationalization I do think quarterly is...
What happens when a country can't kill its winners
The Nobel Minds roundtable discussion popped up on my Youtube this week. The economists’ contributions this year was related to “creative destruction”, which is a concept about a process in which new innovations destroy/replace old ones. As...
2,026 Predictions for 2026
I wanted to make 2,026 predictions but I got tired after 26 and figured I wouldn’t be able to make that many predictions before the year ends, sorry I really really tried aha
While I was at MIT, I put my entire savings into NVIDIA, which s...
The God who knows why you don't believe
A lot of my early year writing was about my thoughts on Christian faith. My intensity in engaging and progressing on this faded a bit as the year went on, but my interest and interactions have still been there off and on. In my current fami...
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I'm a researcher working on AI Safety! Previously, I worked on threat modeling with Forethought, governance at GovAI, ML research, and cognitive science at MIT.
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