Biography
about me
I’ve always been fascinated by the hidden rules underlying complex systems.
At the kitchen table, I learned to read by playing Magic: The Gathering with my older brother and learned probability playing poker with my mother. Before I had the vocabulary for it, I was already learning the same lesson: take the hand you’re dealt, understand the odds, and make the best move you can.
I played basketball through middle and high school. I loved the game, but I was confused by how people talked about it. Coaches, players, and the media often leaned on narratives that felt disconnected from what was actually happening on the court. A lot has changed over the last 15 years, but back then it felt like people could describe the game without really measuring what mattered.
A pregame talk from my high school coach changed that. He introduced me to Dean Oliver’s Four Factors. Under all the motion and chaos, four measurable things usually decided the outcome.
From then on, practice looked different. We worked on hand positioning and passing mechanics to cut turnovers. We drilled footwork and jump-stops to improve our effective field goal percentage and free throw percentage. We practiced boxing out and reading the angle of misses so we could win more rebounds.
It taught me something bigger: the world is full of information, but people often miss the story it’s telling because they're stuck in the narratives passed down by their teachers. That mindset led me to study Economics to understand human systems, then Computer Science to build new ones. I’m still doing the same thing I was doing back then: looking for structure inside the noise, figuring out what matters, and building from there.