ABOUT ME
Background
Born in the USA — family originally from Fiji. Grew up in San Jose then Sunnyvale. Bachelor's in San Luis Obispo. Worked in San Jose, Berkeley, and San Francisco. Traveled to over 15 countries. Tried out so many of all the things.
An autodidactic generalist and professionally systems architect. I'm personally interested in daily, compounding 1% improvements in life. As a hobby, I love indie tech product building and unique social gatherings.
Emerging tech is continuing to impact daily life as we know it. I am excited about enhancing people, and care about improved global systems and societal quality of life as said tech is implemented.
The 5 Pillars of AQEEL
Core values distilled into an acronym:
Actualization
Implement imagination. Transform vision into reality through living with effectiveness.
Questing
Orient towards purpose and goals. Cite your sources — primary source: my gut.
Empathy
Understanding, integrity, and knowledge. Bridge building — integrating points A and B on any zoom scale.
Economics
Integrate the balance of needs and wants on the frontier. Resource allocation with intention.
Leverage
Efficiency. Bang for your buck. Maximize output across capital, knowledge, and labor.
Values Pillars
How I Pay the Bills?
I'm in the business of building/architecting net positive systems (w/ feedback loops and iteration cycles!) and I solve problems.
Inputs, transformations, throughput, and positive-sum value mechanisms on final product distribution — these greatly excite me. I study systems: understanding how the world works, the constituent parts, properties of interconnection. Where 1+1 can become 3.
In a world where leverage capabilities seem to be increasing exponentially, my biggest concern is human alignment — not straining too far beyond our capacity to course-correct. Any misalignment will imprint and catalyze today.
I care deeply about day-to-day experiential quality of life, in tandem with supporting everyone on their individuation journey. Personal growth evolutions. Creating infrastructure and scaffolding for folks to go through the organic, full-life human experience in a wonderful magical world that never loses touch with imagination, wonder, and hope.
Research & Interests
My passion lies in obsessive personal research around cognitive science, neuroscience, neuroeconomics, AI and software engineering systems — understanding the codified elements of infrastructure that will shape our emerging world.
Practices
I believe in 1% daily improvements and compounding leverage.
Multimedia Creation
Writing, music, video — producing reasonable artifacts with concrete utility.
Body
Kickboxing, Muay Thai, yoga. Physical cultivation as foundation.
Mind
Meditate on mortality, meaning, and the mechanisms that govern our lives.
Skill Acquisition
Constantly acquiring more skills through play and experimentation.
Building Tools
Software and content creation. Producing tools with concrete utility.
Making Money
Value created in proportion to value captured is the name of the game.
General Background
Made first $1 on the internet at 13. Never believed in the existing laid out paths for me.
Influenced By / Content Consumed:
- • >100 anime series
- • >100 Bollywood movies
- • >100 media pieces on gangsters, con artists, thieves, underworld kingpins
- • >2 dozen long form sci-fi contents
- • Probably a very average amount of consciousness, matrix/societal complex pieces
- • Many pieces on human behavior (which I abstract or backpropagate anything unto)
Vision / Goals
Material Goals
- •Acquire and customize a water-adjacent home base in California with an Iron Man / Batman lair layer
- •Retire / provide for parents
"Jisr al Duniya"
Bridge of the World — a 25-30 year vision
- • Purchase items
- • Development/transition times: maybe 5-7 years for the spaces