I am a physicist by training and work on technical frontiers. I actively invest in and work with technical founders on important problems. I live in San Francisco and grew up in Germany. I was previously an investor at Founders Fund.
At a young age, I studied theoretical physics where I researched galaxy simulations and star formation. After two years, I came to the conclusion that theoretical physics had stagnated and left the field. I still think about ways to fix foundational science and try to read as many physics papers as I can (email me your favourites).
I like to write essays and read obscure books. Philosophers I return to include the early rationalists, especially Francis Bacon and Immanuel Kant, as well as Leo Strauss. Novelists I like include Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, and Goethe.
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