Interests

• Subset of topics:
  • How to engineer a general intelligence (that can engineer physical systems)
  • Efficiency (from CUDA kernels, to human organizations)
  • Alignment (humans, superintelligence(s), economy)
  • Memetics (computing eigenvectors)
  • The shape of markets (where are they inefficient?)
  • Cognitive biases
  • Self experimentation (esp. extremes: fasting, gluttony, cold, heat...)
  • The limits (or lack thereof) of high agency (robustness to init condition)
  • Lives of great men and women
• Books I read since September 2023 (last update May 2025)
  • Playing to Win (Alan G. Lafley)
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Ben Horowitz)
  • The Startup CTO's Handbook (Zach Goldberg)
  • The Making of a Manager (Julie Zhuo)
  • High Output Management (Andy Grove)
  • The Ultra-scale Playbook (HuggingFace)
  • The NVIDIA Way (Tae Kim)
  • Antifragile (Nassim Taleb)
  • Make: The Bootstrapper's Handbook (Pieter Levels)
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
  • Pragmatic Capitalism: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Money and Finance (Cullen Roche)
  • How The World Really Works (Vaclav Smil)
  • How Innovation Works (Matt Ridley)
  • Never Split The Difference (Chris Voss)
  • Meditations (Marcus Aurelius, Hays translation)
  • Benjamin Franklin (Walter Isaacson)
  • Einstein (Walter Isaacson)
  • Design of Everyday Things (Don Norman)
  • Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)
  • Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer And Venture Capitalist (Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson)
  • Doing Good Better (William MacAskill)
  • The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future (Sebastian Mallaby)
  • Poor Charlie's Almanack (Charles T. Munger)
  • What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People (Joe Navarro)
  • Angel (Jason Calacanis)
  • Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson)
  • 1984 (George Orwell)
  • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Phil Knight)
• Countries/cultures I visited/explored (36-38 total, lived in 6; last update April 2025)
  • Albania
  • Armenia
  • Austria
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Brazil (worked & lived here)
  • Bulgaria
  • Cambodia
  • China
  • Croatia
  • Czech Republic
  • Egypt
  • France
  • Georgia
  • Germany (worked & lived here)
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Macedonia
  • Monaco
  • Montenegro (worked & lived here)
  • Netherlands
  • Portugal
  • Russia
  • San Marino
  • Scotland
  • Serbia (motherland)
  • Slovakia
  • South Korea
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
  • Thailand
  • United Kingdom (worked & lived here)
  • United States (I work & live here)
  • Vatican
  • Viet Nam
  • Wales
• Misc
  • handstand, calisthenics more broadly and powerlifting
  • human languages
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