John's scratchpad

Hi, I'm John!

This blog is a stream of consciousness than a well-formatted one-pager. Some thoughts may be less refined than others.

  • Currently a Partner at a long-term holdings company that buys services businesses and leverage AI to improve operations
  • Co-founded a startup that built consumer AI chatbots, acquired by the long-term holdings company
  • Backend Engineer at Robinhood. Designed and implemented Debit Card deposits / withdrawals (now 9 figure revenue source)
  • Served in the South Korean military. Sergeant as Intelligence in a small batallion in Paju / Interpreter for the Korean Special Forces in Abu Dhabi, UAE for 8 months
  • Studied CS from Princeton (started as Philosophy major)

Interests and random thoughts:

  • Philosophy of science: Humans are universal knowledge creators.
  • Computer Science: Everything in the world can be expressed as state and computation on state.
  • Technology and Science: Politics, philosohpy, and sociology are all derivative of technology and science.
  • Modern history of East Asia and Korea: Development of the tigers show economic development precedes democracy, and a brief "dictatorship" may be a precondition in periods of chaos.
  • Culture: There is such thing as objective quality in the arts.