San Francisco.
I'm building Parallel. The web is the most important source of information humanity has, and AI is now its second user. We're building for that second user: new infrastructure, new interfaces, new incentives.
I started my career at McKinsey in San Francisco: payments, growth strategy for marketplace tech, and research at the McKinsey Global Institute (including reports on the Bio Revolution and on AI safety). Later I joined Chime, where I led strategy for our bank partnerships, ran our savings product, and evaluated whether Chime should become a licensed bank.
Earlier still: interning at SeatGeek as a teenager, working at a no-code startup that didn't make it.
I'm also a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, where I think and write about progress.
I've always had a habit of projects:
More recently I've been working on The Paradox of Progress, a personal research project that may always be a work in progress. "The Leaning Tower of Progress" ran in The Hedgehog Review; "The Compression Paradox" and the essays on the web's second user followed. Everything else is on the writing page.