More about me

I’ve intentionally hidden the link to this page. Last updated September 20.

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.

  Intuitive stretching is really fun!

  Lessons from massaging myself, others, dogs, and cats

  dog massage

  • I’ve also taught 75 people the basics of intuitive massage.

• I’m literally a dog.

• Interested in intentional parenting

  What I would do if I had kids today

  • An interview I conducted:

    Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read (Interview)

• Befriending wild chipmunks is quick and easy!

• I solved my chronic (3.5y) neck pain in May 2024

  I created muscle tension to avoid my feelings

• Loving because they're essential

• I studied physics at Carnegie Mellon University until I dropped out to do interesting work & make friends.

• Depression was useful?

• @visakanv mentioned me in FAN.

• what becoming more secure does to a mfer

• Substack is actually a dating app

• 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.

• I can matchmake you for Keeper.

• If you’re 19 or younger and reading this, please apply to SPARC and/or ESPR next cycle! I’m staff sometimes. I wish I knew about these programs when I was in high school.

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 growth (as defined by enlightened social interaction) quick, easy, and scalable

• Retroactively fund people and projects who have helped significantly

• Family stuff:

  • Kids before 30

  • Financial/social wealth for raising kids in San Francisco

  • Urban co-parenting village (like Noasis if you’ve heard of it)

  • Children are born enlightened. I don’t want to make them unenlightened.

San Francisco events

chrislakin.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.

• At least two long-term relationships have formed between attendees

• Many friendships!

• Tobi Lutke: "the format is kinda brilliant"

• blog post about events coming soon

Stay in touch

• @ChrisChipMonk

• Anonymous feedback

• chrislakin.com/now

btw

If you like my blog, you’ll probably like. Email me: chris@chrislakin.com.