CURRENT MISSION

Settling the question of place--searching for a city from where to lever the world and live the next decade

ABOUT ME

I'm a happy, ideas guy who wants to make beautiful things, especially on the web. Things that help many many, even a little.

In the Bay Area I may have found exactly the place for me, but I'll know that only after finishing my journey across Japan, Europe and Canada.

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PHILOSOPHY

I want to be the light I long to see in the world.

Courage.
Honesty, truth.
Acceleration.
Hedonism.
Restraint.
Selfimprovement.
Selfknowledge.
Kindness.
Experiment!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Only just heard from a good friend about the great experiences she had all over Japan and became really interested about it. Looking forward to my first experience this April at London!

Interests

Web, webapps, programming, programming languages, computers, information design, interface design, artificial intelligence, algorithms, technology, the singularity, the future

Language, languages, conlangs, nonfiction, sci fi, words, reading, essays, definitions

Philosophy, ethics, economics, law, science, evolution, consciousness, math, physics, psychology, flow

Writing, cycling, blogging, food, footbag, music, photography, cities, making lists, making things, making

• writing
• design
• photography
• ethics
• dining
• technology
• reading
• blogging
• music
• cycling
• economics
• languages
• law
• mathematics
• physics
• psychology
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: I like to sample everything. Some genres: ambient, britpop, electronica, cumbias, trip hop, hip hop, fado, trova, world, jazz, rock, chanson, latin, soundtracks..

Books: nonfiction, hard sf, short stories. Some books: Virginia Postrel's The Future and its Enemies, Jeff Hawkins's On Intelligence, anything by Greg Egan, Paul Graham's essays, Edward Tufte's, Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman, Daniel Friedman's The Machinery of Freedom, Peter Watson's Modern Mind, Daniel Suarez's Daemon..

Some video: TEDTalks, Groundhog day, Oldboy, Magnolia, Requiem for a dream, Kill Bill 1, Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal, Little Miss Sunshine, Amelie, High Fidelity, The 5th Element..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Dropped out of college to pursue web dreams!

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd love to help you however I can and are very generous by nature. Here's one fun thing I'd love to teach: toki pona, a language of 120 words made by Sonja Elen Kisa, a Canadian translator. A couple of thousand people around the world know it and you can learn it a day or two. Why learn it? Because having to speak in the simplest possible terms makes you think about what you really want to say. And because it's fun!

Countries I’ve Visited

Mexico, South Korea, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Mexico, United States

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