About me
I am a bounty hunter with a focus on burnout, conflict avoidance, and agency for people who affect frontier AI:
I write at chrislakin.blog, and tweet @chrislakin.
I used to be like the people I write about. I unlearned it.
Things I believe:
A big bottleneck to the future going well is “powerful people being emotionally healthy enough that they actually contribute to the things they think they care about” —@RichardMCNgo
If you want long-term results… you should track long-term results damn it
High-performers benefit more from unlearning than more learning.
People are default-good
How to succeed: 1) avoid copying failure; 2) attempt to copy success
Few people succeed when they try to do brain surgery on themselves. The failures outweigh the gains
Outside of work, I
Previously, I worked on
physics at Carnegie Mellon
Updated June 2026 from San Francisco.
