harnessing inferential gaps to defeat bounded rationality

co-founder of the simon institute for longterm governance. we help china and the west exchange on ai governance to ensure frontier r&d is understood across geopolitical fault-lines.

we started by strengthening international disaster risk governance before concluding that institutions that aren't ai-first will not have a future. now a team of 10 operating at the intersection of technical governance and intercultural exchange. for an example of what this kind of diplomatic entrepreneurship looks like, see how the history of cern can inform international ai r&d efforts. just that we’re doing it across countries that don’t (yet) believe they have shared goals.

building our village in the city

infrastructure for tinkerers, builders, explorers, thinkers, and artists. a physical space in geneva’s eaux-vives neighborhood—part workshop, part living room, part launchpad.

fractal university, codeathons, weekly open events, castle weekends. the programming keeps evolving but the intent stays the same: create density of interesting people and serendipitously generate scenius.

creating, listening, dancing

i curate and weave tracks together — from acid techno to hip hop and jazz — mostly for myself to enjoy, and sometimes at friends' parties.

artists & music i love

movies & tv

games i like to play

thinking out loud

ideas that won’t leave me alone. i mostly write about them on twitter, and sometimes on substack.

hot takes

opinions i hold with varying degrees of confidence. some are half-baked. all are sincerely meant.

20 books i keep coming back to

corners of the internet i keep returning to

blogs, podcasts, essays, and other things that shaped how i think.

personal lore

some background facts on what might have made me me

photo archive

i have no mental imagery and am trying to get better at taking photos and sharing them. this is 10y on instagram (2014–2024), which i abandoned but exported all my data from.