About

Regardless of my current areas of focus, my ultimate mission is to meaningfully participate in the collective project of stewarding humanity towards enabling flourishing and well-being for all.

For most my life, I was looking at my feet and taking small, comfortable steps. I was decent at math and physics in high school, so I elected to study engineering at university. I wasn’t sure what career to go into, so I went to my university’s careers fair. I didn’t know how to choose one job from another, so I just chose the job offer that marginally had the highest salary. And after a short stint in quantitative trading, I finally looked up at the horizon and realised I was climbing the wrong hill.

Since then, various intellectual influences have radically shaped how I view the world, and how I orient and find my place in the world.

Aside from the casual “try to do good for the world” stuff, I’m also into fitness and weird self-improvement.

Contact

Feel free to contact me at james.kn.dao@gmail.com especially if:

• You wish to share any leads related to my current areas of focus
• You think some form of collaboration/correspondence is mutually beneficial
• You wish to correct me on a mistake I made in one of my writings (please do!)