Traveling is an addiction I can't get enough time for these days, especially with work and a couple volunteer projects. Things change rapidly these days, but I do my best to share the interesting updates on my Facebook: facebook.com/zach.mueller

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

While I still do travel a few times a year, I feel it's time for me to pay it forward for all the hospitable people I've met around the world and host other Couchsurfers now that I have an apartment in a great city

Interests

My interests span many areas. In my productive life, I work in finance while I'm teaching myself the skills necessary to move into data science while I volunteer on the side teaching business students SQL at my grad school and assisting a local biology lab in any capacity necessary to expose myself to synthetic biology. When I'm not working on one of those projects, I do my best to hike up mountains, climb at a local bouldering gym, spend time with close friends, take things apart, put them back together, build new things, read a long book, learn something new, and - when I can muster up a week+ off from work - travel somewhere around the world.

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - most of my music listening takes place while I work and I am easily distracted by wanting to sing along to lyrics so I mostly listen to instrumental-only, either classical or more modern (lately I've been playing Zoe Keating on repeat); back when I had a driving commute to work, I would tend towards various forms of Rock though listen to a wide variety (anything from Pink Floyd to Sublime to Owl City to Lorde)
Movies - don't watch too many movies these days
Books - prefer non-fiction with a scientific bent though I also include broader topics when good books catch my eye. Recently finished [Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, Into Thin Air, Steve Jobs (biography by Isaacson)]; Queued up next [Deep Simplicity, Thinking Fast and Slow, Debt: the First 5,000 Years]

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bermuda, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, New Zealand, Samoa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Hong Kong, New Zealand, United States

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