I don’t care about balance.
Most of the time it’s just an excuse to not go far enough in what actually matters. I go all in on what makes me feel alive, not what I’m supposed to do.
Throughout my life, whatever goals I've had, I've tried to identify the highest ROI path to get there, find the gaps, close them, and get what I want. I genuinely don’t think there is a limit to what I can do, regardless of my age or circumstances. If something matters enough, I’ll figure it out.
That’s how I’ve approached everything, including my time doing ML research at the Harvard Ophthalmology AI Lab, MIT CSAIL, and Carnegie Mellon University (remote to Dr. David Touretzky). I’ve built ML systems spanning foundational architectures and mechanistic interpretability, and had my work recognized internationally, including being flown out to Silicon Valley and across Europe. Through this, I’ve seen how the frontier of AI research works.
I’ve learned one thing. Everyone is trying to build more capable AI, but almost no one is working on systems that actually increase human capability in response. If AI can do everything better, what is the point of us developing skills at all? That question doesn’t go away for me.
The answer is not to slow AI down. It’s to push humans forward. I’m working on building systems that make humans fundamentally more capable, to the point where we are operating at the same level as the systems we create. I think this allows humans to operate at a level we haven’t seen before, where one person can learn, reason, and create at a scale that today would require entire organizations.
I want to build a future where every individual has the power to do what they want, become who they want, and create at a level that was never possible before.
That’s why I’m building Icarus Cybernetics.