More about me
I’ve somewhat hidden the link to this page so hopefully only interested people see it. Last updated July 16.
For what I’m doing now, see chrislakin.com/now
quirks
I’m literally a cat.
Vibes I like:
abstract and technical yet playful and silly (kiki x bouba)
intuitive
“holistic curiosity”
taking heavy things lightly
“Having fun with things we usually avoid
many of my social events are just this
I’ve eaten mostly only beef since 2020.
I taught myself intuitive bodywork: stretching and flexibility, massage, calisthenics, isometrics, partner stretching.
I’ve taught 75 people the basics of intuitive massage.
Multiple people have told me, unprompted, that they like my massages more than their masseuse. ~1x/mo someone asks to pay me for a massage.
I’m literally a dog.
Interested in intentional parenting
An interview I conducted
I solved my chronic (3.5y) neck pain in May 2024
I studied physics at Carnegie Mellon University until I dropped out to do interesting work & make friends.
@visakanv mentioned me in FAN.
I once co-founded a new summer camp for talented high school students. It later became Atlas Fellowship, $10M scholarship program but I declined to join the founding team.
If you’re 19 or younger and reading this, please apply to SPARC and/or ESPR next cycle! I wish I knew about these programs when I was in high school. I’ve been staff.
questions
What are the payoffs for being unenlightened?
How do groups coordinate while defending themselves from cancers? see: collective intelligence
goals
Understand the generators of synchronous social interaction
Formalize moral badness and moral goodness for application in AI (cf davidad)
Make psychological growth (as defined by enlightened social interaction) quick, easy, and scalable
Retroactively fund people and projects who have helped significantly
Family stuff:
Have kids before 30
Have financial/social wealth for raising kids in San Francisco
Urban co-parenting village like Noasis
Keep my children naturally enlightened; Learn how to not incentivize them to become unenlightened.
San Francisco events
My tweet about an Extreme Awkwardness event I ran went viral. It inspired a copy in NYC (retrospective).
Yes two people ended up in bed together.
That event of mine also inspired a whole series of events in Toronto.
Aella wished she could’ve come.
NYT inbound tally: I
At least two relationships have formed between attendees (both lasting ~4 months so far)
Many friendships!
Two attendees who met and now have a persistent SF-NYC room swap.
Tobi Lutke: "the format is kinda brilliant"
Stay in touch
I’m also on Twitter @ChrisChipMonk.
If you got to the bottom of this
If you like my online presence, you’ll probably like me and I’ll probably like you. Email me! I respond. chris@chrislakin.com