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.

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.

learning in public

i primarily write to think better. most of the time, i don’t push to publish. but i’m going to spend more time polishing up my cold takes in the coming years.

making up for aphantasia

i don't have visual imagination or memory 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. i will attempt to add onto this about once a quarter.

a reading redux

20 books i find relatively underdiscussed

personal lore

some background facts on what might have made me me

focus on what you want to see more of

blogs, podcasts, essays, products, and corners of the internet that shaped me or that i simply enjoy.

soap box

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

cold takes

concepts i keep coming back to. things i repeat in conversations until people tell me to stop.