⚙️ My life goal is to take as much suffering as possible and invert it. I do this by expanding what humans, machines, and narratives do together.Follow me for the neurotech. Stay for the dimensions of the story!———Longer version:👓 I run visual simulations and thought experiments in my imagination: a natural gift that allows me to bring solutions into the real world.In childhood, I had many ideas! My dream was to be a scientist and write books about my inventions.This is how I had fun:🔋 Tinkered with electronics 🐶 Trained my dog🤝 Volunteered📚 Read voraciously✍️ Wrote a 45-page (typed, single spaced) documentary on my observations of human behavior🎶🎷 Played music on 4 woodwind instruments💰🔬 Invested gift card money in science kitsFast-forward to the present. I have even more ideas!I am:🎤🧠 Writing and speaking about neurotech (see Publications section for some of my content)🤝 Connecting people🕹👩🏻‍🔧 A scientist focused on solutions as close to the roots of problems as we can go📝 Writing about neurotechnology for corporate audiences⚠️ Mitigating risks🌐 Staying in conversations with many kinds of people 🌄 Updating my skills and knowledge (see the Certifications section for the tip of the iceberg)👩🏻‍🔬 Synthesizing solutions for situational understanding💭 Playing well with words💡 Always on an adventure: see "Activity" > "Posts" for recent adventuresNotable: 🤣 Served as UMich Neuroscience Graduate Program's Joke Awards Comedian at the annual retreat for 3 years☸️ Lived in a Buddhist temple for 22 months, trained as Dharma Worker📑 I write about experiences and things I notice. Sometimes, I strongly agree with people and their approaches. Sometimes, I strongly disagree with peoples' approaches, but am friends and enjoy learning from their perspective. Sometimes, I meet someone who is hiring and think people in my network might be interested in a job opportunity. Thus, making posts, reacting, or sharing about people or companies is not necessarily an endorsement, it is about transferring information.Startup investor in Fisher Wallace Labs, Neurosity, Aptera Motors, Nobody Studios, and PSYONIC.I have stock options in Valence Vibrations and Sanmai Technologies PBC.