Transhumanist HackerHere to Help

I want to help humanity reach its full potential. I see a fantastic future where we harness AI to augment ourselves, expanding our ability to build, create, and communicate together.

In 2018, I was studying software engineering in Canada. One day, while taking notes on my phone, I realized those notes weren’t something separate from me, they were actually a direct extension of my mind. They were part of my mind. That insight led me to Vannevar Bush’s Memex and a question: what could we become if we increased the bandwidth between our minds and our tools? I started building smart glasses to explore how we could enhance our memory, hearing, cognition, and communication.

That curiosity led me to work with the inventor of smart glasses at UofT, travel across North America in a mobile hacker lab I built, X-Ray LLMs with Stephen Wolfram in Illinois, design circuit boards with software at a YC startup, and eventually join the MIT Media Lab. At MIT, I worked with Pattie Maes, the inventor of proactive AI agents.

In 2024, I started Mentra to build the missing piece: an open-source smart glasses OS for a future where everyone is free to augment themselves.