In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
Me, to date:
2023-now
BoxGroup
Investor
Early stage investor mainly covering AI but love talking to founders of anything!
2022-2023
Netflix
ML Engineer
Spent most of my time writing Clojure working on an orchestrator for all experiments run on the recommendation system.
2017-2022
Yale
Student
Studied mostly computer science and comparative literature. I like computers processing language just as humans processing language. I also somehow ended up captain of the men's polo team (yes, the kind on horses).
2016-2017
Finland
Loafer
Spent a year in the happiest country on Earth cross-country skiing, eating reindeer, and learning Elvish.
1998-2016
Maine
Young Man
Coming of age, mostly. You should try it -- it's exhausting.