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Miscellany

Fun facts · odd achievements · off the CV

A running list of the unusual, the improbable, and the things I actually did. Different fields, one pattern: get in over my head, then build my way out.

  1. 01Walked on to a rugby team and won a national championship.Grit
  2. 02Spent two years as a missionary in South Korea, and still speak Korean.Adventure
  3. 03Grew up working a cattle farm in rural Ohio.Roots
  4. 04Built an industrial-grade hardwood-furniture shop out of a one-man garage operation.Built
  5. 05Assisted in surgeries on global-health expeditions in sub-Saharan Africa and the Himalayas.Medicine
  6. 06Chose not to enter the residency Match. Taught myself to code instead.Turn
  7. 07Published some theoretical physics, mostly out of curiosity.Curiosity
  8. 08Shipped an open-source genomics engine that reached the Hacker News front page after someone else posted it.Built