Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
—Archimedes

My priorities are, in order:
family and friends,
data systems,
writing.

My mission is to build the systems that will bring us into a pro-humanity future.

The world, and my life, have been overturned by technological waves: first personal computers, then mobile phones, and now AI. We've achieved more than I imagined decades ago; yet we've also lost sight of both what's possible and what's in good taste. Still, I believe technology remains one of the longest levers for expanding the human experience, and that leaps in technology are unlocked by leaps in systems capabilities.

That belief took me from rewriting the database systems course at Brown, to Photon at Databricks, to Daft at Eventual. At every step, I saw the same story: intelligence was bottlenecked by data and the systems that process it. But what intelligence meant kept growing: from structured data to multimodal data, from analytics to machine intelligence.

Now, I've joined Cursor to work on the data behind the frontier of machine intelligence. The bet is the same one I started with: capability is unlocked by systems, and the right systems can give each human a longer lever than ever before.

Some things I believe in:
improving tirelessly (自强不息),
setting your heart ablaze (心を燃やせ),
and that life is a game you can play seriously.