When asked “what I do” I say that I’m trying to reduce suffering and increase happiness, both in the world and in myself.

When I am pushed to give a more normal answer, I say that I am a serial charity entrepreneur.

I start organizations and design them so that they are self-sustaining such that I can step back and they can continue generating impact without me. Like passive income but for impact. Passive impact if you will. 

So far I have co-founded Nonlinear, Charity Entrepreneurship, Charity Science Health, and Charity Science: 

• Nonlinear works on AI safety. We do a wide variety of things, including providing coaching and career advice to aspiring AI safety charity entrepreneurs, helping people find AI safety funding or figure out where to donate in AI safety, and advocating for a pause in AI development until we know how to do it safely. 
• Charity Entrepreneurship is a combination of Y Combinator and GiveWell. It is a charity incubator, providing training and resources to people starting high impact organizations in global poverty and animal welfare. It also does systematic prioritization research into what are the best opportunities to start. 
• Charity Science Health is a GiveWell-incubated nonprofit which has helped hundreds of thousands of people in India get vaccinated using behavioral nudges over cell phones. According to GiveWell’s estimates at the time, Charity Science Health was similarly cost-effective to AMF.
• Charity Science, featured in Doing Good Better, helped raise awareness and funds for evidence-based and cost-effective charities. It provided hundreds of thousands of deworming tablets to children in Africa, educated tens of thousands people about factory farming, and co-ran the first RCT on vegetarianism outreach effectiveness. 

On a personal level, I'm really into figuring out this whole happiness deal. I like optimizing all the things, and I like helping my friends solve their problems. I love learning about other cultures and history, and if there weren't so much suffering in the world, I'd be an anthropologist or a social psychologist. 

I've been a digital nomad for years now and my favorite countries so far have been Turkey (the cats!), Cost Rica (the nature!), Dubai (the diversity!), Mexico (the culture!), and Switzerland (functional and beautiful). 

Here are some labels that apply to me: effective altruist, centrist, rationalist, Canadian, bisexual, anti-woke, grey tribe, woman.