CURRENT MISSION

founding Qualtonomy.com

ABOUT ME

I'm 28 and live and work in Seattle, WA, USA.

Life's simply incredible and I love traveling, challenging myself, doing good in the world, and exploring anything that catches my fancy, whatever it may be.

I absolutely love the west coast of the US, Seattle is a wonderful home for now, and I'm in the middle of founding a startup, www.qualtonomy.com, to help people plan their health care incase in the future they can't make decisions for themselves.

I've also recently been living in Brazil (a total of 6 months over the past 2 years) - mainly in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

PHILOSOPHY

Treat others how you want to be treated. Cherish life and vigorously charge forward by exploring a variety of interests. It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. Success comes before work only in the dictionary. Be generous.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have a couch and an airbed waiting for anyone to use in Seattle, WA, USA. I also travel the world as much as possible and am just getting started with the whole CS thing.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None so far, but looking forward! Maybe Rio de Janeiro Brazil will be my first!

Interests

startups, health care, Brazil, China, culture, politics, technology, long boarding, surfing, Arab Spring, world events, history, economics, social entrepreneurship, world leaders, innovators, journalism, philosophy, language, great non-fiction, riveting and wise movies, ideas that have positive impacts

• culture
• politics
• technology
• movies
• traveling
• surfing
• economics
• entrepreneurship
• history
• journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: The Who, Rush, Soundgarden, SomaFM
Movies: Diving Bell and The Butterfly, Inside Job, Secretariat
Books: loved Cutting for Stone; right now I'm reading The Social Animal by David Brooks

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Survived working in São Paulo, Brazil, for 5 months.

Teach, Learn, Share

Social technology
Technology
Startups
Entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurship
Health Care
Brazil
South America
China
Asia
Boats
Nature
Surfing

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