Founder of Titan Seal, a blockchain startup. Author of Dear Hannah, a cautionary tale about self-improvement. Read my latest essays on Medium. Send emails to . Based in California.
Startups
- Head of Product for Everfest
- Head of HR for Mutual Mobile. Grew company from 20 to 40 employees
- Coded, designed, and managed three, six-figure iOS apps
- Featured twice by Apple on the App Store
- Stanford President's Scholar and Bachelor in Mathematical and Computational Sciences
- 8 Changes to My Life after Just 4 Weeks of Meditation (front page of Reddit)
- Amazon's Second Moment (Medium cover story)
- What It's Like Publishing My Entire Book on Medium (Medium cover story)
- Wobbly Tables and the Problem with Futurism (featured by Jason Kottke)
- How I Finally Reined in My Spending (featured by Ramit Sethi)
- Why I Skip Stack Overflow (front page of Hacker News)
- What's it like getting DNA test results (front page of Hacker News)
- Philosophistry: The Love of Rhetoric
- Dear Hannah: 70 Methods I Used and Abused to Change Who I Am
- Character & Chemistry: The Two Most Important Questions in Dating
- The Perfect Thread: How One Question Tapped into the Soul of MetaFilter
- Keynote speaker at Hallmark's Trends Week Conference (2012)
- William Shatner's Weird or What? episode on The Bray Road Beast (2012)
- Book Launch for Dear Hannah
- Short film "#Zombies: Followers of the Dead" (2011)
- TechTV host (9 episodes) on San Diego local access TV (1998)
- Permanote, a popular text editor for Dropbox
- The Creative Whack Pack (featured twice by Apple)
- Tarot and Tarot Pro, the first tarot apps on iOS
- Rave Light
- 3D Porch was the No. 1 3D-Photo sharing site, and was featured by CNN
- RealOrFake3D is a handy list for separating the real 3D films that were shot/rendered natively in 3D from the fake ones that weren't
- A flow chart explaining the Tangled Web of Syriana.
- What is The Perfect Album, according to Plastic, a web community
- 100 People Who Are Screwing America, Summarized
- Design Award, Adobe 1998 ($60,000 in scholarships; I was 16)
- Finalist, ThinkQuest 1997
- go2 flash demo (featured by CBS MarketWatch)
- First-round pick in Slashdot's re-design Contest
- Bronze Medalist in the "Audio" category for Darwinphony, an entry in Ludum Dare 24
- Design Engineer on The Sims: Life Stories, which received PC Gamer's Editor's Choice
- Painter of abstract acrylics, one of which was on the cover of a political magazine