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Me in 10 seconds

Short term goal: do cool things with cool people

Long term goal: product management on a team that builds AI solutions to important problems

Lifetime goal: make life better for those around me

Me in 1 minute

• Born and raised in Seattle, WA
• Bookstores and orchestra rehearsals were my third spaces growing up
• Went to Columbia because I wanted to be in New York
• Wasn't sure what I wanted in a career when I started college so I did a bunch of random things — in hindsight I've been optimizing along the axes of 'challenge,' 'impact,' and 'people' or something like that but I don't know yet if my current goal of product management is a local or global maximum
• I am pretty sure what I want out of life more broadly though: to live in a city by the water, with lots of sunny days and people I love to enjoy them with

Some things I believe:

• The best teams are like jazz bands
• Compact, dynamic, aware, team over self, shared love of the art
• Writing is thinking
• Making tacit knowledge explicit is soft power in a workplace — things like meeting notes and weekly summaries are a privilege to send, not a chore
• "Hell yeah or no"
• Even doing nothing is better than doing something uninteresting
• Find and maintain momentum
• Bring back analog
• Digital artifacts are losing the attention war — physical objects have presence
• A picture is worth 1,000 words but the clay pot you made in kindergarten is worth 1,000 pictures