<aside> 💡 Hello! I’m Jon, and I’m looking for a wife! I’d love to find a nuanced thinker to have adventures, create and raise a kid or two, and conduct a 50 year conversation that never stops being interesting. If that might be you, and the description below sounds intriguing, get in touch!
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<aside> 🎂 38 📏 6’2”📍LES/NYC 👶 No kids yet but excited to have some with the right woman!
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Table of Contents
I’m not much for small talk; here’s a sampling of the kind of thing I’ll want to talk about if we go on a date.
What’s your heresy? Or put differently, what’s an opinion you hold that a community you consider yourself a member of would consider anathema?
When’s the last time you changed your mind about something important?
What’s something you’re an expert in? Like top 1% globally?
If you were empress of NYC for a day, what change or policy would you enact to make it a better city for the next 100 years? Think about actual policy levers, not magic-wand sorts of things.
Tell me a story about a trip you took that taught you most about yourself (or reality)
Who are your heroes? Who do you routinely read/pay attention to?
What do you aspire to?
Me (second from right) coordinating with local counterparts.
In my final year of undergrad, I redesigned a water supply system in Ecuador. After graduation, I flew down with my team and built it! We organized ~400 volunteers over a week and a half to enlarge sections of pipe, install valves and meters, and restore equitable access to a water supply system that served 5 villages in the hills above Otovalo. I also managed a sewer project in El Salvador through Engineers Without Borders.
I spent 2 years living and working in Uganda as a Peace Corps Volunteer. While there, I started this company, still operating - some of my proudest work!
Started a machine-learning startup (now defunct) with my best friend
One of my favorite economists, Arnold Kling, ran a Fantasy Intellectual Teams competition. I am the undefeated champion
When I went to Azerbaijan in 2023, I enjoyed their national dish (Shakh Plov) so much, I taught myself how to make it when I came home.
Reading See below for my “holy canon”, but I’m constantly reading great sci-fi or history related to an upcoming trip
Travel I’m in an informal competition with my dad to visit the most countries. My current count is 50. This year (2024) I’m planning trips to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Taiwan, China, Poland, Germany, Czechia, Austria and maybe Pakistan. In 2023 I visited Senegal, Norway, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Sweden, Hungary, and Slovakia.
