hello! recently, i noticed that my past 1-3 years have been spent largely on research for pedagogy/metalearning/mastery/fluency/skill-acquisition. i couldn't connect the dots looking forward and i'm excited to see how god unfolds the plot further, but it turns out i rly rly rly dont like bad pedagogy and i rly enjoy making asymmetric bets to optimize metalearning.
it turns out it's possible to make learning wayyyy more efficient than most people think (by multiple orders of magnitude). and many fields are largely preparadigmatic wrt metalearning, and their SOTA pedagogies have lots of nontrivial low-hanging fruit! and it seems like there's so few people working on this problem!
specific areas im currently curious about...
• music learning theory & second language acquisition
• "drawing on the right side of the brain" but for everything
• how to increase wellbeing by multiple orders of magnitude; currently curious about internal family systems / coherence therapy, and neobuddhism / christian mysticism
some other past/current interests: guitar, tennis, mandarin chinese, christian community, protestant theology, ai reasoning, contemplative studies, kung fu panda trilogy, bowling physics, attachment theory, classical piano, competitive programming, chorus, table tennis
five things that approximate my ideas as of july 2025:
• nick cammarata's twitter account
• "no bad parts" by richard schwartz
• "drawing on the right side of the brain" by betty edwards
• "time for god" by jacques philippe
• kung fu panda trilogy
some of my favorite bible verses: 1 john 4:12, john 1:1, john 15:5, 1 cor 3:6-7, matt 11:28-30, matt 13:44, john 15:9-17, isaiah 43:1, 2 cor 5:7, prov 3:5, matt 6:33, prov 3:6, 1 john 4:19, matt 20:28, eph 2:1-10
oh also i hang out at brown studying apma cs and physics, so you can contact me at my super cool email address:
[firstname] [underscore] [lastname] [at] brown [dot] edu