A bit of history For billions of years, nature was left to its own devices, engineering itself through the process of evolution. As products of this evolution, humanity has struggled to view biology through any lens other than our own past evolution. The history of life sciences goes all the way back to Aristotle’s…

Highlights Meeting Zoom, Twitter, and LinkedIn friends, IRL! 🤩 Visiting IndieBio 😱 Seeing state-of-the-art biotech literally in front of me Visiting UC Berkeley, my potential new home 👀 Recording amazing interviews, including one with Eric Schmidt! Getting awesome internship opportunities 😅 Visiting the Genesis House… man, hacker houses blow my mind. Context …

Extracted from Walter Isaacson’s book “The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs” — 🔑 Main idea  What Steve would do 🔥 Action item Extra fact 1. focus 🔑 Deciding what not to do is just as important as deciding what to do  When he came back in 1997, Apple was developing over a dozen computers. He saved the company by focusing only on…

Going down philosophy wormholes with Sofia — Context Tim I was reading a blog post by Tim Urban called Depressing Math. He talks about the time we really have for different things in our lives; things we find valuable, emphasizing on time with our loved ones. I realized that even though I’m aware of this, I still feel like…

Decoding the hype of Web3, NFTs, DAOs, and all of that — Blockchain is the tool to build a new era of the internet, the economy, and how we exchange information. Bitcoin was just the start. We can really leverage this technology to solve the world’s biggest problems. How does it actually work? Let’s not overcomplicate things. Blockchain is, indeed, a chain of digital blocks. …

BUILD Speaking alongside a Netflix director of engineering… about bioengineering! Interviewing Josiah Zayner for the Obio podcast + visiting The Odin HQ Starting the first-ever iGEM international, commercial, high school team Interning at Grow Your Own Cloud, a DNA data storage startup Joining BioDojo, a community for curious and ambitious undergraduates…

Beyond apes, evolution explains the history of the universe, our 21st century world, and how we behave in it Mental models A mental model is a way of thinking, a way our brain arranges information, a way of “seeing” the world. Some examples of mental models are: Inversion: be the smartest person…

2021, Q4 — ⛰️ Maslow It’s easy to sing “all you need is love” when you’re at Maslow’s fourth floor. Before understanding his pyramid of needs, I didn’t know how to think about the “money and happiness” dilemma. I think that happiness becomes a choice once you’ve covered most of your basic needs. True, I’ve…

Spoiler: I failed terribly and learned a lot — hi! This is the story of how I terribly failed twice as the leader of two iGEM teams + the most valuable lessons I gained. Hope you enjoy the scientific method structure of this blog post and appreciate my honesty. iGEM 1.0 Observations Before July of 2020, I’d barely heard about synthetic biology…