Hello there! I’m a software engineer living in San Francisco, with deep interests in spirituality, large language models, eastern healing practices, nutrition, and tea!
Links: Resume, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, GitHub
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- software/AI engineering jobs or contracts, either at a wonderful tech company here in SF, or at a great startup using my AI engineering skills
- seed funding for the TCM+AI product I’m building, so that I can work on that full time, healing the world by giving Traditional Chinese Medicine the AI edge it needs to scale to heal billions and supplement western medicine
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- building an business that cures chronic conditions using Traditional Chinese Medicine, AI and personalized medicine - daily practices of meditation, qi gong, barefoot running, and yoga - living on Alamo Square park in SF - drinking some of the world’s finest teas - studying RAG pipelines, LLM tools, qi gong and Chinese Medicine
What piques my curiosities:
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- qi gong translates to “energy practice” and it’s an ancient chinese practice of using movement and the mind to clear toxins, reduce the tension we hold in our bodies, and strengthen our ligaments. It’s similar to yoga, but I think it targets our nerves, fascia and lymph, where yoga focuses a bit more on muscles, tendons, and posture. Qi gong is to China as yoga is to India.
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- Mickey Singer
- going to college in Gainesville, Florida granted me the in person teachings of spiritual teacher Michael (Mickey) A. Singer, who wrote the famous books The Untethered Soul, The Surrender Experiment, and Living Untethered. He taught me that by having a practice of yoga and meditation, we can free ourselves from the incessant chatter in our skulls, and use our minds for wonderful creative expressions. Through his devotion to god, spirit, and stillness, he was sane and grounded enough to build a billion dollar software company, saying “yes” to life, and putting aside his personal egoic agenda to serve and surrender to the moment in front of him
- Osho
- Bagwaan Shree Rajneesh, aka Osho, I revere as a great master. He preaches a practice of being in the world, but not of it. Not retreating to a Himalayan mountain top for the rest of your live, but finding stillness and awareness right where we are, with our lives, jobs, partners, and troubles as our greatest teachers. He thinks it’s an easy and dull path to renounce the world and live in a cave, and says that the hardest path is learning to be enlightened in the midst of the whirlwind of our daily lives.
- Eckhard Tolle
- The Power of Now was the first spiritual book I ever read. The first two times I read it, most of it went over my head. I’m reading through it a third time, and I find rich wisdom in his words
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- Taoism
- Tantra
- Zen
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- Western thought, the seed of modern physics, science, and medicine, views the world through the lens of cause and effect. Eastern thought, views the world through the lens of balance, and interrelated parts.
- Western medicine struggles to cure chronic conditions, tending to manage symptoms and apply band-aid fixes. Traditional Chinese Medicine seeks to find the underlying imbalance in the body, and to fix that using herbs, acupuncture, dietary and lifestyle changes.
- TCM is proficient in curing these chronic ailments that Western Medicine treats the symptoms of (e.g. chronic pain, IBS, anxiety, depression, asthma, diabetes, obesity, hypertension)
- Chronic Pain Conditions
- Arthritis (Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis)
- Chronic back pain
- Sciatica
- Fibromyalgia
- Migraines and headaches
- Digestive Disorders
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
- Chronic constipation
- Ulcerative colitis
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Respiratory Conditions
- Asthma
- Chronic bronchitis
- Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
- Mental Health Issues
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Insomnia
- Stress-related disorders
- Neurological Disorders
- Parkinson's disease (symptom management)
- Post-stroke recovery (to improve function and reduce disability)
- Multiple Sclerosis (symptom management)
- Gynecological Disorders
- Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
- Menstrual cramps
- Menopause symptoms (hot flashes, night sweats)
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
- Infertility (as a complementary treatment)
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Hypertension (high blood pressure)
- Coronary artery disease (supportive care)
- Metabolic Disorders
- Diabetes (type 2, primarily for symptom management and as a complement to standard treatments)
- Obesity
- Skin Conditions
- Eczema
- Psoriasis
- Acne
- Cancer
- Management of side effects related to chemotherapy and radiation therapy (e.g., nausea, vomiting, fatigue)
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- I strongly believe in wearing barefoot shoes. The Vivobarefoot Primus Lite III is my daily driver, and it’s my favorite shoe I’ve ever worn.
- I believe that when we wear cushy things on our feet, we don’t interface with the ground properly, wearing out our joints and ligaments in ways that nature did not intend
- I think that puffy shoes are opiates for the feet
- 100,000 years of mammalian evolution designed a better ground interface than a claustrophobic engineer did 100 years ago
- Running injuries only became prevalent after Phil Knight made the modern Nike running shoe
- If you think asphalt is hard, have you ever run on a rocky trail? Asphalt is blissful compared to walking on the hard rocks we evolved to run over. The