About

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!