Eden Chan
I enjoy finding better shower thoughts and hills to climb.
It feels great to deeply understand things that bring me joy. These tend to be incompressible problems with high-dimensional people. Vast, brilliant, and impossible to fully understand.
I love working with awesome people and gaining a deeper understanding of the universe of things I care about.
I joined xAI on the talent engineering team. I wanted to learn how mafias are born and raised. The best engineers are both exceptional problem solvers and problem finders. The taste of choosing the right problems to solve and framing it in the right light is irreplaceable.
Before that, I grew up in Toronto, graduated from Waterloo, lived with my best friends in a hacker house in San Francisco, Canggu & Kyoto, and now Palo Alto. During that time, I worked at Alljoined, Ideaflow, Bronco.
Some things I believe
- Health is Wealth.
- Be kind to yourself, and to your curiosity.
- Where you get dopamine is predictive of your behavior.
- Taste = knowing what's good from bad.
- Good taste = experiences (art, food, music, content) that change your brain chemistry in a meaningful way, where "meaningful" requires a lingering trace.
- The point of doing a startup is to build something you can't buy.
- Work with the best people you can find, on the highest-impact thing you can find.
- Love begins with deep understanding.
- The meaning of life is to locally reverse entropy.