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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Czech, English, Slovak; learning German
  • 29, Male
  • Member since 2015
  • Software Engineer
  • Electrical Engineering
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

I'm
- calm
- quiet
- introverted

I like
- people
- food
- books
- sports
- joy

Weird things I do
- I go to sleep quite early
- Study on Friday evening
- Eat only plant-based foods

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet people, expand my comfort zone, sleep at couches and offer mine.

Interests

I just simplified my life into tags.

  • vegan
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • science
  • dance
  • rationality
  • effective altruism

Music, Movies, and Books

Books
- Rationality: From AI to Zombies, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- How to Measure Anything, by Douglas Hubbard
- The Replacing Guilt Series by Nate Soares
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- The Elephant in the Brain, by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
- Behave, by Robert Sapolsky
- Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, by Richard Feynman

Podcasts
- Making Sense
- The 80,000 Hours
- Conversations with Tyler
- Rationally Speaking

Blogs
- SlateStarCodex
- Less Wrong Forum
- Effective Altruism Forum

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Went more than 1 000km on a bike trip from Prague to Baltic Sea and back with my father.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach
- different meditation techniques
- yoga and movement exercises
- rationality techniques

I want to learn
- swimming techniques
- acro yoga
- data science and machine learning

I can share
- my interest in finding things out
- love for exercise
- authentic relating games

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook great plant-based food.
Share my knowledge of rationality tools.
Be maximally open and share whatever you are interested in.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Malta, Poland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Macedonia, Slovakia

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