• hiking, camping, and exploring parks
• skiing (former racer at brown, now for joy)
• road biking in norcal mountains
• free climbing and lake jumping
• wrestling (former d1), bjj, and muay thai
• soccer with friends
• walking
• road tripping with friends
• cooking
• poetry
• russian literature
• clear and concise writing
• complex systems
• brain-computer interfaces
• human-computer interaction
• neuromorphic computing
• taxonomy and biological systems
• philosophy (morality, free will, consciousness)
• eastern philosophy (taoism and buddhism)
• humanity's future under technological change
• social psychology and strategic games with asymmetric information
• minimalist interior design
• working in nature