Technology as macromutations

After studying biology and computer science, I worked as a software engineer and eventually became a specialist in AI evaluations at Elicit, a startup building an AI research assistant. In parallel, I’ve been building my writing career by blogging at Hopeful Monsters for 210 consecutive weeks, and publishing pieces in various outlets, including Works in Progress and Asterisk Magazine.

I’m especially interested in the historical, cultural, and evolutionary aspects of technological progress. I am known for having way too much interest in the history of the pineapple, and for creating an interactive historical tech tree.

Psychological richness enjoyer

I sing in an amateur choir (we do contemporary classical pieces that no one has ever heard of), cook a lot (love trying new recipes), travel a bunch (some favorite places: Mexico City, Jerusalem, Santorini), have written a couple of unpublished novels and a few published short stories (I have an ongoing literary project about phantom islands), and enjoy long walks with friends where we talk about deep philosophical topics. I like new experiences, old maps, and parenthetical statements.