Hi, I'm John!
This blog is more 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 holding company that buys services businesses and leverages AI to improve operations
- Co-founded a startup that built consumer AI chatbots, acquired by the long-term holding 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 battalion 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:
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Philosophy of science: Humans are universal knowledge creators.
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Computer Science: Everything in the world can be expressed as state and computation on state.
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Technology and Science: Politics, philosophy, and sociology are all derivative of technology and science.
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Modern history of East Asia and Korea: Development of the tigers shows economic development precedes democracy, and a brief "dictatorship" may be a precondition in periods of chaos.
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Culture: There is such a thing as objective quality in the arts.
- I love music. Boiler Room, Zelda Soundtracks, Rachmaninoff, New Jeans.
- I also used to dance. I was in a couple videos from 1 Million back in the day.