Stanford
BA Political Science
Studied political science, behavioral economics, and education. This is where I kicked off a lifelong obsession with a single coordination question: how do people trust each other and work together at scale?
Stanford — BA Political Science
The starting chapter of the through-line: how non-kin coordinate at scale without centralized coercion. Sports teams, political institutions, classrooms — three lenses on the same question.
The economics-to-political-science pivot is the first instance of a recurring move: leave models that open with bad assumptions about humans.
The top-shelf reading list (Caro, Kahneman, Haidt, Bloom, Beck/Cowan) is the long-form continuation of this Stanford lens.
Stanford → Bain: I didn't know what I wanted to do. Bain looked like a good place to learn.