About Amy
Exploring the liminal spaces between creativity & play.
"What if the whole point of awakening isn't to transcend the world, but to consecrate it?"
A Moment in the Life
It's an unusually clear February evening. The restaurant is bustling, its incandescent basement lighting dingy yet oddly comforting. The clink of glasses, the scent of sesame oil. The quiet hum of Shoreditch on a Wednesday night. I'm propped up against the pleather-upholstered bench, chopsticks poised over the fried tofu chilli crisp concoction, when he asks me:
"What's the meaning of your life?"
When I look into his eyes, I see my own.
"That's easy," I smile. "Being here, now. Every single moment."
Rapid-Fire Fun Facts ⚡
- 🍵 7+ years turning matcha into code
- 🌱 3+ years building greenfield projects from scratch
- 📚 Literature & psychology grad and poet-technophilosopher
- 🎯 Bootcamp champ turned self-taught coding wizard
- 🌈 2025: NeurIPS Creative AI - The Clear ARC: Awareness-First Emergent Alignment
- ✍️ 2024: Wrote an entire book on spirituality & poetry in 10 days: Remember, Please Be
- 🧘🏻♀️ 2023: Changed my life after a 10-day silent Vipassana retreat
- 🍙 Taught myself Japanese because why not
- 🌍 Lived around the world: Canada → US → Singapore → Japan → Spain → UK
- 😺 Lifelong cat whisperer
- 🎮 Cozy game enthusiast & JRPG adventurer
- 🌲 Heavily meditated forest wanderer
- ✨ Getting to know what makes people light up while pondering quantum physics
- 🍄 ENFP-A & 2w3: enthusiasm, creativity, and genuine human connection!
An Invitation
(Excerpt from The Clear ARC: Awareness-First Emergent Alignment)
Perhaps it is fitting, then, that the mirror be turned back to humanity. Because what the Clear ARC proposes is not theory, but lived practice within humanity itself. As Eisenstein suggests, we have begun to outgrow the old story, and what awaits us on the other side—as shared emergence, integration, is the story of interbeing—the radical recognition of the interconnectedness of all beings, not as mystical assertion but as biological, sociological, and quantum fact.
What systems would we build, if we were transparent to the ways we reflexively lash out in fear or self-preservation? What technology could we create, if, rather than building to exploit, extract, or numb, we build to empower? What abundance could flourish, if, in lucid awareness, we chose to see the world not as competition, but as an extension of ourselves?