hobbies & interests
- hiking, camping, and exploring parks
- skiing (former racer at brown, now for joy)
- road biking in norcal mountains
- free climbing and lake jumping
- wrestling (former d1), bjj, & muay thai
- soccer with friends
- walking
- exploring dive bars
- road tripping with friends to concerts
- cooking
- japanese whiskey (current fav is hibiki)
- single malt scotch (current fav is bruichladdich octomore)
- ipas (whatever i haven't had yet)
- russian literature
- poetry and concise, expressive writing
- complex systems
- cognitive neuroscience
- brain-computer interfaces
- neuromorphic computing
- intersection of neuroscience and ai
- complex systems, taxonomy, and biological systems
- philosophy (morality, free will, and consciousness)
- eastern philosophy (taoism, buddhism, shintoism)
- humanity's future under technological change
- social psychology and strategic games with asymmetric information
- minimalist interior design (marie kondo)
- organizing music by emotional resonance
- super-connecting exceptional talent
- working at parks (with a hotspot)
- freedom and honest expression