"the most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort… they regard a difficult task as a privilege; it is to them a recreation to play with burdens that would crush all others."
- nietzsche, the antichrist §57

hi, i'm justin.

taiwanese american, long island raised, taipei for middle school. vanderbilt gave me a pretty piece of paper. since then, i've been interesting problems, interesting people.

by day i run the operating system inside an agentic data company. it keeps me sharp. the rest is harder to file: a sleep brand that's secretly a longevity play, a company that believes in exactly one molecule, a public person's deal flow, a market book i run with a council of machines, a second brain that knows me better than i do.

the pattern, if you need one: i make many-part things run as one thing. the method: make problems disappear - a heat-seeking missile for pain, eliminating one rate-limiting factor at a time, rinse and repeat. bring me the weird ones.

off the clock: calisthenics, skeet, climbing things, racing cars. on the fun scale below, i aim for type 2 and keep getting promoted to type 3 - not fun during, not fun after, great story forever. latest promotion: two reps from the world record for pull-ups off a helicopter, then 3am jiu jitsu took the elbow. i'll be back for the title.

these notes are more for me than for you, but walk around. if you got here through someone we both know, that's the right way - email's at the bottom.