There is often a beauty to a personal website, because you get to see someone's quirks. But that's not what this is. I don't do that. But if you found this somehow, that's cool.
To the extent I am defined by how I spend my time and who I am surrounded by, you'll find that I spend a lot of time with founders, builders, researchers, investors, designers, though increasingly trying to befriend some more doctors as I get older (hello!) I also spend time with little humans who remind me every day of the beauty of doing or learning something for the first time. Or running in the presidio, or drinking a matcha latte.
I am endlessly fascinated by the quirks of humans. Why do we all have these silly little tics and change is so hard for us, yet we're oh so adaptive as a species. I love that human intelligence is shaped so differently from artificial intelligence and I think we should embrace that. I am trying hard to avoid the pull towards AI slop.
// ok fine — maybe a few quirks after all.
tsukiji-fish-market
When I was 10 I wrote a book report on Japan and every year I asked my parents to take me to the "Tsukiji fish market so I can eat raw tuna in the wee hours of the morning." And I finally went to Japan on my honeymoon 15 years later, and I can still taste the joy of eating that raw tuna in the wee hours of the morning. Life goal complete.
yerevan-armenia
I am proudly 100% Armenian.
macroeconomics
I love how it makes sense of trillions of micro actions and finds laws that govern how trade, income, currency and human welfare all connect. I love markets. I love market design. I love macroeconomics. I love the hand of the markets. I love how well designed capitalism is.
reading-deeply
Books — I love biographies and short stories.
meditation
In business school in 2014 I was convinced meditation was going to be the next big consumer trend and started a company called Uplift to bring meditation to the masses. It did ultimately become a big trend, but unfortunately Uplift did not!
rap-music
In high school I was a rapper named Lil Physics.
solar-energy
I worked at First Solar in college and fell in love. The most abundant power source in the world!
proverb.txt
"She believed she could, so she did. Also she had great shoes."