i’ve been reverse-engineering the world since i was eight — melting pencil lead into makeshift lightbulbs using drill batteries I pulled from the garage. my experiments got more technical (and often more problematic) with time: tearing apart school computers for parts, jailbreaking iphones in elementary school for cash, a soldering iron-induced fire that almost took out my parents’ house, and arduino-based automation system that turned my room into something between a rube goldberg machine and a surveillance state. i was the kid who only raised his hand to fix the teacher's projector, and who spent more time in the computer lab than i did in class. my entire life, I’ve been a tinkerer and technologist.

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the tools have changed — no more solder flux all over my bedroom carpet or recurring ebay deliveries of drone escs — but the obsession hasn’t. i still believe, maybe more than ever, that technology is humanity’s most powerful lever for a safer, healthier, happier world.