
hii i'm albert
i like thinking hard and moving fast
(i also like walking on rocks; and semicolons)
I’m currently very interested in brain-machine interfaces. There’s some magic stuff happening up in those crania, and I’d like to see what we can do with a little engineering.
More generally, I like to figure out how things work. My second most prized possesion in kindergarten was the hit picture book The Way Things Work (the first was my stuffed bear, who I was convinced was a dog). This lives on in reflective conversations, close reading (of media, but also of the designed environment and emergent phenomena), and wandering behind the scenes.
Trailer of my life:
- Spawned in Michigan, lived in 4 states/attended 8 schools by age 12
- Elementary school “recess” had pickaxes and power tools
- High school friend group spent COVID coding on voice call together
- Now indiscriminately studying STEM at Caltech (techn. CS/Neuro (CNS))
Things that consistently leave me in awe:
- the sparsity of our lives (we’re just tiny threads through spacetime, woven together)
- elevation, especially mountains and cliffs, especially over the ocean
- city (or better yet, airport taxiway) lights, simultaneously enchanting and repelling
- the stars
Beliefs/axioms:
- The subjective experience is— a miracle! And we can mold it:
- The fractal of experience contains infinite wonder.
- The world (and thus, the experience) is malleable via technology.
- Community/trust is key.
- We’re all just people trying to get along and explore the world.
- We’re mostly on the same team—team “make the world better”.
- Quality. Scale is an engineering problem.
- Mindset matters. I am practicing
- Optimism and imagination (physics provides realism),
- Intentionality / focus / discipline / alignment,
- Reduced mental inertia,
- Fear is the mind killer.
- Live a pure/light life.
- Stepping back, and keeping my eyes on the prize
It seems like there’s a lot of fun stuff to do; and we can do it.
It's gonna be fkin great—I can't wait :))See some thoughts, projects, pictures, friends, or other stuff,
or say hi @exr0n.com.
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or say hi @exr0n.com.
(better yet, discord me @Exr0n)