CURRENT MISSION

embrace the blooming francophile within

ABOUT ME

I work at Makani Power, an airborn wind turbine startup in Alameda, CA. I play saxophone and guitar and when I'm not going to music shows, dancing, or eating delicious foods with my girlfriend and close friends, I'm probably either sleeping, riding my bike, or paragliding.

PHILOSOPHY

Everyone who lives dies, yet not everyone who dies has lived. We take these risks not to escape life but to prevent life from escaping us. - unk

There is a path from me to you that
I am constantly looking for. - Rumi

you never fail to make me smile. - kk

A fool can learn from his own experiences; the wise learn from the experience of others. - Democritus, 460-370 B.C.

The next one will be better than all the previous. - Kaila

Where your mind leads, your heart will follow. You are safe. You are strong. - Ash

It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love. - Charles de Foucauld

O my god I could orgasm! - Anya, commenting on the beauty of the river

I don't care what we do, I just want to be with you - fatty

On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the presence is overwhelming. That concrete whizzing by five inches below your foot is the real thing, the same stuff you walk on, it's right there, so blurred you can't focus on it, yet you can put your foot down and touch it anytime, and the whole thing, the whole experience, is never removed from immediate consciousness. - Pirsig

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on 'good' rather than 'time' and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes. - Pirsig

A copy of Thoreau's Walden... I try always to pick a book that is way over his head and read it as a basis for questions and answers, rather than without interruption. - Pirsig

If you conceived the past and future to be all contained in the present, why, that was groovy, the present was what you lived for. And if your motorcycle was working, why worry about it? - Pirsig

Sometimes a chicken is just an eggs way of getting another egg. - Samuel Butler, thanks Sapolksy

In every relationship you need to feel safe, wanted, and loved. - Bill

The definition of intimacy is being able to say anything to the other person without expectation of a response. - Bill

You can leave it, you can fix it, or you can do nothing. Most do nothing. - Bill

It's the What, the Who, and the Where of your happiness. Pick two. - John Avilla

Nothing worth anything is easy. - Kyle Huth

You shouldn't eat it if it is bigger than your head! - Kyle Huth

We're creating memories gies, we're creating memories! - Kyle Willis

The source of all your power is Gone! - Brian Ellingwood, reflecting on my missing beard.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Tomorrow is no place to place your better days - Dave Matthews

Getting people to like you is only the other side of liking them. - Normal Vincent Peale

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

t matters too much to take short cuts. I'm only gonna have one chance to get it
right.

I'm evolving! I love you. The sky is blue, my room is red.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

none so far. I am excited to meet you all!

Interests

culture, music, food, happiness, love, cycling, dancing, paragliding.

• culture
• books
• beauty
• dancing
• dining
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• paragliding
• engineering
• mathematics
• physics

Music, Movies, and Books

Les Miserable, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, Anathem, Repaso, Hemmingway's work, Michael Pollen's work.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Thermalled wingtip to wingtip with my dad and an eagle in colombia.

Teach, Learn, Share

I teach music, physics, mathematics, engineering, and sometimes how to kite a paraglider.

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