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- things I'm doing (at February 2026)
- technical programs and operations-y things at Thinking Machines Lab
- currently I make Tinker go internally and am responsible for our ecosystem/community build-out
- I do a variety of things and work with a bunch of different people at Thinky. If you are interested in joining us in any capacity, I am a good person to talk to as a starting point!
- exploring new tech ideologies
- getting really good at finishing things and yoga
- things I've done
- took a ~sabbatical where I
- traveled a bit, wrote a bit
- did some PR things for Jessy
- accidentally became a chief of staff and helped build the initial strategy + ops for Emergence Quantum.
- EQ is a world-class contracting R&D org in the style of BBN. We work with private + public customers to solve the control hardware problems on the path to scaling quantum computers.
- helped the Australian Government build its quantum industry as a member of the National Quantum Advisory Committee
- we released Australia's first National Quantum Strategy in 2023, which laid the groundwork for >$1B in investment into quantum things by the Commonwealth and State Governments.
- invested in frontier tech at Blackbird
- started and built Foundry, Blackbird's founder dev/preaccelerator program for PhD students and postdocs
- added some momentum at nonprofit DeadlyScience as first employee. DS is a Eureka Prize-winning charity that provides STEM learning resources to remote Indigenous schools and communities. You should donate.
- co-created/led with Genevieve Firmer (legend) the 2021 Harry Messel International Science School's chemistry stream with a workshop, "Is the universe ruled by chaos?"
- a bachelor of advanced science in chemistry and mathematics, with Honours and the University Medal in quantum simulation under Ivan Kassal, at the University of Sydney
- Ivan is a great researcher and supervisor with a wonderful group
- my honours thesis was on simulating chemical dynamics using an analog quantum simulator
- it was part of the work that led to the first simulation of chemical dynamics on a quantum computer!
- in general I really enjoyed my time at the University of Sydney and rate the academics there very highly. It's a great community. I loved being a part of it.
- i also did things like supervising advanced undergrads doing research, helping to start a student society, got elected in a student representative thing
- was a high school teachers' aide in learning support, a receptionist, a retail clerk, a waitress, and a Domino's pizza-slinger
- played some bass guitar and read some books
- blog posts
- 2025-03-11 one of the strangest conversations i've ever had
- 2025-02-23 book recommendations from a group chat
- 2025-01-30 note on pantheon (the show)
- 2025-01-04 on the wilson translations
- 2024-12-30 favourites of 2024
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- my public personal library
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- some places i haunt online
- substack
- letterboxd
- spotify
- my email, which is cb at this domain
- this site is built with jekyll on github pages and uses a modified version of no-style-please by riggraz :)
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