In 10 seconds

I’m a self-taught programmer and math geek. I love helping people and following my curiosity.

I was unschooled and taught myself everything I know. I love understanding things deeply and re-explaining them to others.

Now

I’m nomading around but mostly living in San Francisco. I’m between major things right now, following my interests, main things I’m doing at the moment:

• Helping Jhourney turn their alumni network into something fantastic
• Building TOUCH GRASS: THE APP with Brennan Colberg (cool guy!)
• Meditating, now out of curiosity (how does my mind work??) rather than for toxic outcome-oriented reasons¹

Recovering from burnout + depression + bad relationship. Will update this list as I start ramping up/doing more stuff :)

Quick notes about my culture

I love when people ask me for things. I see it as them exercising their agency and even if I can’t help I respect the attempt. Even crazy things like “Uli can you give me $1000 for ABC” are fine! I’ll just say “no but respect for asking.” I can say no to things and I enjoy helping people when it doesn’t cost me much.

Particular things I can help with:

• I can introduce you to someone who does/knows X for almost any X (mostly young ppl are who I know.)
• Finding cool people your age if you’re young. I was really isolated 15-17 and now know a ton of people. Feel free to DM me & join my Discord. Especially if you’re in a city or near a major university, in which case I’ll probably know multiple people there.
• I can give good advice regarding Effective Altruism. How to do good while not damaging your psyche by, oh I don’t know, constantly feeling the suffering of everyone in the world and blaming yourself for not doing more. The mind-virus is real & dangerous, but it’s also great to try and do good at scale! I’m still navigating this.
• Can give advice on getting charitable grants of ~$1-20k to do interesting projects. Emergent Ventures is the main one lots of my friends have done but there are many others. It sounds crazy but If you’re demonstrably smart and passionate about something, you can usually get money to go do it.
• Can give okay advice regarding meditation/emotional untangling of patterns, especially regarding shame/guilt/self-hate. Still figuring this out myself, when I write something I’ll link it here, but for now I’ll just point towards replacing guilt and say “read this 5 times till you get it.” Also this post by the same author.