Engineer · Polymath · Innovator
Exploring the places where physics meets philosophy, where engineering meets policy, and where our institutions meet the messiness of real life.
Read on ↓I'm an engineer based in Washington, DC, currently working at the Breakthrough Institute, a research center promoting technological solutions to environmental and developmental problems, where I spend my days thinking about how technology and policy can reshape the way we power civilization.
My life right now revolves around teaching myself solid state physics and innovation theory. But this site (under construction) is about so much more: the electric grid as a reflection of 21st-century Federalism, the importance of novelty and risk-taking in politics and academia, dinosaurs, and whatever else I happen to be obsessing over on any given Tuesday.
I think of myself less as a specialist and more as a generalist with serious depth — a polymath in training, if you'll forgive the ambition. This is my digital notebook, a pixelated window into my world. Welcome in!
Published pieces, reports, and professional work.
Innovation has geographic inertia: regional hubs for today's technologies are positioned best to birth those of tomorrow. Fusion is no exception... but how should this knowledge inform better fusion and industrial policy?
2026 The Breakthrough InstituteRebuilding competitive aluminum production outside of China will take more than tariffs — it demands coordinated investment, allied cooperation, and the process knowledge in molten salt electrolysis that carries over to next-generation industrial technologies.
2026 The Breakthrough InstitutePhysical stockpiles alone can't fix America's mineral supply vulnerabilities. Real security means building domestic capacity — and a reserve that functions as financial infrastructure, not just a warehouse.
2025 The Breakthrough InstituteGreen fertilizer technologies are too expensive and too slow for a continent facing severe food insecurity. Natural gas isn't perfect, but it's incomparably better than people starving.
2025The notebook section — aimless, curious, unapologetically exploratory.
What if we treated ideas like particles in a container — bouncing around, colliding, and occasionally producing something useful? A thought experiment.
We need only look to the Federalist Papers to remember the role of the national legislature in grid governance.
Institutions with risk-intolerant incentives will stagnate. Young people could be the part of the antidote — but only we give them a chance.