i grew up moving. bolivia, dubai, singapore, and now college station. an international, nomadic upbringing gave me an early intuition for working with people who think differently than i do, which i've found is most people.

i read a lot. realist fiction mostly — dostoevsky, steinbeck, jens peter jacobsen. not because it's useful but because it trains a different kind of attention you don't really get in such a technical degree. it's (almost) equally taxing mentally; the deeper you get, the more lost you become, but you're all the better for it in the end.

it's also shockingly easy to get buried in the technicalities. you lose sight of the fact that we are learning to build things for people and society. i try to stay mindful of that.

industry titans Morris Chang and jensen huang built companies around the conviction that performance hardware would matter everywhere and they were right. the next generation of hardware will reach further into every industry than most people currently expect. i want to be at the frontlines of what computing becomes.

jensen huang says that "you should choose the suffering that you love". what's harder than reading a book that got great reviews, only to realize it's overhyped? or staring at your cursor blinking on an empty doc before writing? publicly externalizing my thoughts on things i find interesting makes it harder to pretend i understand something i don't.

but yeah— welcome.