Strategy & governance @ DeepMind. Focus areas: deployment, safety, scenario planning, education, recruiting, norm-shaping, positive futures, trust & coordination, supporting promising ventures.
Studied economics @ Yale; co-author of Machine Learning for Humans; previously led growth @ Upstart.
Enjoys thinking about thinking; pragmatist focused on the meta of things.
I’m ok with calling this the “Silicon Valley mindset”—since it recommends a growth-oriented career mindset, like the Breakout List philosophy, with the ultimate success metric being impact—though it’s important to note that I’m not advocating for everybody to go start companies. Rather, I’m describing a shift in focus towards extreme career capital growth asap (rather than direct impact asap) in any reasonably relevant domain, subject to the constraint of robustly avoiding value drift. This seems like the optimal approach for top talent, in aggregate, if we’re optimizing for cumulative impact over many decades, and if we think we can apply the venture capitalist mindset to impact (thinking of early-career talent as akin to early-stage startups).