Miscellaneous

• I used to write about space for Supercluster.com. I may not be the best writer, but I enjoyed following SpaceX, which drew me back to my interest in space after the Shuttle retired.
• I'm physically active. I enjoy playing tennis competitively (NTRP 4.5) and lifting weights at the gym. I also love running on trails and hiking. I've been told I'm a good cook (italian, indian, instant-ramen?), if I have enough time.
• Asimov's Foundation and Robots had the greatest impact on my life, which is why I work on AI and want to extend that to robots. Waymos and robotaxis should have self-defense rights!

Books

I'm a pretty avid reader. Here's a list of books that moved me in some significant way:

Non-fiction

• Elon Musk (Ashlee Vance)
• Life 3.0 (Max Tegmark)
• Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson)
• Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Eric Berger)
• Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets (Eric Berger)
• The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West (Alex Karp)
• Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Chris Miller)
• The Nvidia Way (Tae Kim)
• Focus: The ASML Way (Marc Hijink)
• Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)
• The Case for Mars (Robert Zubrin)
• A New World on Mars (Robert Zubrin)
• The Case for Space (Robert Zubrin)
• Empire of AI (Karen Hao)

Fiction

• The Martian (Andy Weir)
• Artemis (Andy Weir)
• Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir)
• Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
• Foundation and Empire (Isaac Asimov)
• Second Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
• Foundation's Edge (Isaac Asimov)
• Foundation and Earth (Isaac Asimov)
• I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)
• The Caves of Steel (Isaac Asimov)
• The Naked Sun (Isaac Asimov)
• The Robots of Dawn (Isaac Asimov)
• Robots and Empire (Isaac Asimov)
• Prelude to Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
• Forward the Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
• Red Rising (Pierce Brown)
• Golden Sun (Pierce Brown)
• Morning Star (Pierce Brown)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe (Douglas Adams)
• Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• Green Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• Blue Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)