IDK how to introduce myself so I've put some of the cool things I've done below (nineteen is in progress, but it'll be even cooler).

18: I lost a lot of things (hopes&dreams, relationships, money), learned a lot of lessons, and did a lot of soul searching as a result. I found my way to a monastery in rural Nepal 3000m up in the mountains, and spent my summer digitizing manuscripts. I also tried interp and RL, didn't like it, and made Hagiyaki pottery.

17: I started at RevisionDojo. It was just the three of us engineer wise so I built tons of things end to end and helped scale from 3k->200k students. We also got into YC's F24 batch. I'm pretty sure we worked on some of the first (widely used) AI-generated lessons ever and it was kind of surreal seeing AI take off in general.

I'd also started trading again, though I stopped soon after. The writing sucks I know.

16: I realized arbitrage was the same in any market and thus got into crypto. Sadly, I didn't have any money and infrastructure was expensive. So, I got an internship in crypto infrastructure. I joined standups at midnight and opened PRs aplenty. My MEV dreams died and I fell in love with startups.

15: See below the spreadsheet I'd used to launch my fire staff crafting empire. I'm not sure why I leaned into the messy, maximalist style so much, but it worked and I couldn't be bothered to clean it up. The material prices were fetched in real time and there were nuances like focus + city bonuses that made spreadsheeting practical.

14 and before: I just did a ton of reading. In primary I would average 5 hours a day: 2h commute + 1h from lunch/break + any free time. By third grade I'd outgrown the primary library and had to go to secondary/pirate books onto my Kindle. I write this not to brag (I read tons of slop) but to explain away my immense autism and show how far I've come (socially?). I also played lots of games e.g. gen7ou and D2.