Who are you?
It's always good to skip the niceties and get straight to the point :)

I was born and grew up in Santa Monica, CA where I went to Pilgrim Lutheran elementary school, followed by Windward High School. For my undergrad I went to Stanford, where I majored in Product Design (a combo of Mechanical Engineering and Art) and minored in Computer Science. After Stanford I went to work at Google as a product manager, where I helped lead the development of Google Desktop, Google Video, and the Google user experience. Post-Google, I'm going to MIT for grad school, where I'll spend my time studying brains as a PhD student in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department (Course 9).

I am a stridently independent person. I love working, but despise working for others.

I am entrepreneurially inclined, and can still remember selling lemonade outside my house when I was 12. I love entrepreneurship not for the profit but for the empowerment, where my work to make an idea real fortifies my belief that anything is possible.

I am scientifically inclined, believing that science, especially brain science, illuminates the best path to satisfying our philosophical questions.

I am technologically inclined, believing that new technology is one of the best ways to resolve social conflict and improve quality of life.

I am optimistic, and believe that people are basically good. I believe there are many right answers, with many paths to a satisfying life. I don't believe that all answers are right.

What are you doing right now?
I am currently driving cross-country from Walnut Creek, CA (near San Francisco) to Somerville, MA (near Boston). I'll be starting at MIT in a couple of weeks.

Why superfacts.org?
I bought the superfacts.org domain several years ago, when I first thought up the idea for Super Facts. Super Facts would be a way to inform consumers about information beyond prices when they are about to purchase products. It would be essentially an extension of the Nutrition Facts found on food items, but display the social conditions relevant to the production of the product. It would be a label on all products, not just food. More details are in this blog post.

After I bought the domain, I decided to migrate my blog from LiveJournal to my own server. Since I already owned the superfacts.org domain and it wasn't being used for anything, I decided to just use it for my blog.