Contact:

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Books I have enjoyed:

1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline - Ray Huang

1984 - George Orwell

2024 Harvard Business Review

2025 Harvard Business Review

The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son - John D. Rockefeller Jr.

The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene

The Accidental Prime Minister - Sanjaya Baru

The Age of AI and Our Human Future - Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher

Arabian Nights - Anonymous

A History of China - John Keay

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

Amp It Up - Frank Slootman

Angel - Jason Calacanis

Antonius and the Zodiacs - Dahlia Ornelas

The Anxious Generation - Jonathan Haidt

A Passage to India - E. M. Forster

Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire - Eckart Frahm

Bad Therapy - Abigail Shrier

Badass Affirmations: The Wit and Wisdom of Wild Women - Becca Anderson

Bag the Elephant: How to Win and Keep BIG Customers - Steve Kaplan

Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World: Dan Koeppel

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco - Bryan Burrough and John Helyar

Becoming - Michelle Obama

Benjamin Franklin - Walter Isaacson

Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Valor: A World War II Story of Extraordinary Heroism, Sacrifice, and Survival - Jon Erwin and William Doyle

Bibi: My Story - Benjamin Netanyahu

Billionaires' Row: How a Series of Bi-Coastal Tycoons Seized Manhattan's Best Real Estate - Katherine Clarke

Bitter Brew - William Knoedelseder

Black Boy - Richard Wright

A Book of Strangers - Jeff Sharlet

Born of This Land - Chung Ju-yung

The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers - Jeff Sharlet

The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

The Campaigns of Alexander - Arrian of Nicomedia

Captain James Cook - Richard Hough

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism - Sarah Wynn-Williams

The Cat in the Hat Comes Back - Dr. Seuss

The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger

Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the "Great Good Places" at the Heart of Our Communities - Ray Oldenburg1

The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail - Ray Dalio

Charlotte's Web - E.B. White

Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Pursuits into Enduring Competitive Advantage - J. D. Schramm

The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst - David Nasaw

Christmas Pig - J.K. Rowling

The Cigarette Century - Alan M. Brandt

Civic Work, Civic Lessons: Two Generations Reflect on Public Service - Thomas Ehrlich and Ernestine Fu

The Cleveland Clinic Way: Lessons in Excellence from One of the World's Leading Healthcare Organizations - Toby Cosgrove

The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age - Leo Damrosch

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure - Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt2

Confessions of an Advertising Man - David Ogilvy

The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time - Maria Konnikova

The Conference of the Birds - Attar of Nishapur

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration - Ed Catmull

Doce Cuentos Peregrinos (Twelve Pilgrim Tales) - Gabriel García Márquez

The Donner Party - George Keithley

Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun - Bob Ward

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling - John Taylor Gatto

Dynamite and Peace: The Story of Alfred Nobel - Edith Patterson Meyer

The Ear Book - Al Perkins, Illustrated by William Payne

East of Eden - John Steinbeck

Educated - Tara Westover

Edison - Edmund Morris

Einstein - Walter Isaacson

Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson

Empire of AI - Karen Hao

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Greg Mckeown

Ethics - Peter Singer

Europe Central - William Tanner Vollmann

Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World - Robert M. Gates

Fall Leaves: A Collection of Prose and Poetry - Will and Ariel Durant

The Facebook Effect - David Kirkpatrick

A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway

Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide - Charles J Woelfel

Fox in Socks - Dr. Seuss

The Frontier in American History - Frederick Jackson Turner

Grinding it Out: The Making of McDonald’s - Ray Kroc and Robert Anderson

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought - Susan Jacoby

The Great Divorce - Clive Staples Lewis

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History - John M. Barry

Henry Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West - Mark S. Foster

His Excellency: George Washington - Joseph J. Ellis

The Hilarious World of Depression - John Moe

The History of Love - Nicole Krauss

History of Rocketry and Space Travel - Wernher Von Braun and Frederick I. Ordway III

The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien

The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance - Ron Chernow

The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende

How Google Works - Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg

How to Appear Normal at Social Events - Lord Birthday

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World - Steven Johnson

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai

I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 - Douglas Edwards

The Ickabog - J.K. Rowling

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation - Jon Gertner

India: A Million Mutinies Now - V.S. Naipaul

Invested: How I Learned to Master My Mind, My Fears, and My Money to Achieve Financial Freedom and Live a More Authentic Life3 - Charles Schwab

Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince - Mark A. Vieira

John Adams - David McCullough

Kissinger: The Idealist, 1923-1968 - Niall Ferguson

L.A. Confidential - James Ellroy

Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase - Duff McDonald

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - Sheryl Sandberg and Nell Scovell

The Life of our Lord - Charles Dickens

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times - Michelle Obama

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone - Olivia Laing

The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe - Glenn Clark

The Man Who Talks with the Flowers - Glenn Clark

Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl

Mao: The Unknown Story - Jon Halliday and Jung Chang

MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman - Ben Hubbard

My Inventions - Nikola Tesla

My Life and Work - Henry Ford

The Muqaddimah - Ibn Khaldûn

The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus

No More Tears - Gardiner Harris

The Norton Anthology of Drama - J. Ellen Gainor

Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Odyssey - Homer

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish - Dr. Seuss

Open - Andre Agassi

Paid in Full: Building a World-Class Organization on the Gospel - Paul Chappell

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World - Margaret MacMillan

The Plague - Albert Camus

Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time - Howard Schultz

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York - Robert A. Caro

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future - Sebastian Mallaby

The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest - Edward Chancellor

The Prophets - Abraham J. Heschel

The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Renewable: The World-Changing Power of Alternative Energy - Jeremy Shere

The Richest Man in Babylon - George Samuel Clason

The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company - Robert Iger

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany - William L. Shirer

Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama

Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts: Seven Questions to Ask Before -- and After -- You Marry - Les Parrott and Leslie Parrott

Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building - Claire Hughes Johnson

Security Analysis - Benjamin Graham and David Dodd

Shah Jahan: The Rise and Fall of the Mughal Emperor - Fergus Nicoll

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike - Phil Knight

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life - Alice Schroeder

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations - Toni Morrison

Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches, 1937-1958 - Albert Camus

Stalking the Wild Pendulum - Itzhak Bentov

Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson

Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting - Robert McKee

The Story of Civilization I: Our Oriental Heritage - Will and Ariel Durant

The Story of Civilization II: The Life of Greece - Will and Ariel Durant

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers - Will Durant

The Stranger - Albert Camus

Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing - Jane Margolis

Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude - Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

The Swiss Banks - T. T. Fehrenbach

The Technological Republic - Alexander C Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska

Ted Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking - Chris Anderson

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know - Adam Grant

The Thomas Sowell Reader - Thomas Sowell

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing - Bronnie Ware

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer - Jeffrey K. Liker

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power - Jon Meacham

The Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin

Trump: The Art of the Deal - Donald J. Trump and Tony Schwartz

Understanding Human Nature - Alfred Adler

Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life - Luke Burgis

The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith

When McKinsey Comes to Town - Walt Bogdanich and Mickael Forsythe

When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany - Adam Fergusson

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America - Douglas Brinkley

William and Mary - Roald Dahl

Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon - Colin Bryar and Bill Carr

The Wright Brothers - David McCullough

Writing Screenplays That Sell - Michael Hauge

The Yosemite - John Muir

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice - Shunryu Suzuki

Background:

UC Santa Cruz (B.A) Economics & Business Management (Emphasis in Finance)

Assistant Director (SIP 2023 & 2024)

Operations Coordinator (SIP 2022)

Implementation Consultant at Enforce Consulting; nCino (Salesforce) (2021)

SIP Program Assistant (SIP 2020)

Finance Assistant at UC Santa Cruz Athletics (2019)

Student Manager at UC Santa Cruz College 9/10 Dining (2018)

The Tuition has been Paid: Learn from Others’ Mistakes and AVOID THEM!!

Inside the Downfall of Doppler Labs (Link)

I’m Calling It. Southwest’s New Seat Policy Is Just a Money Grab. (Read the comments! - The customers are always right!)

Decoding Zuck’s Superintelligence Memo

America must be a nation of doers!

Inside Target, Frustrated Employees and Search for New CEO (Read the comments! - Longtime loyal customers share their thoughts!)

Housing is where the buck stops

To Do lists (#1) (#2)

Dunbar's number

Building AGI is a distributed systems problem, not a machine learning problem.

Honda hasn’t innovated since 2004

Great Falls of Apple, Intel, and Boeing

Coupang