Hi, I'm Jolie…
Hi, I'm Jolie…
Hi, I'm Jolie…
We're standing at the edge of the next Renaissance. Our willingness to question process, respect the uncertain, and scrap presumptions about how things 'should' be done will be formative to how we adapt.
Most recently, I worked on Analogue, a novel R&D engine for innovation funding while writing, researching, and interviewing about scientific progress, emerging problem spaces, and approaches to innovation. As you're reading, these take up most of my brainspace:
Valuing nascent, emerging ideas before they’re obvious;
The future of knowledge (co)creation, synthesis, and research, in the Intelligence Age;
Mixing media and R&D to lower the barrier of entry to scientific literacy, expand the kinds of people and ideas we let in, and make discovery feel exciting again.
We're standing at the edge of the next Renaissance. Our willingness to question process, respect the uncertain, and scrap presumptions about how things 'should' be done will be formative to how we adapt.
Most recently, I worked on Analogue, a novel R&D engine for innovation funding while writing, researching, and interviewing about scientific progress, emerging problem spaces, and approaches to innovation. As you're reading, these take up most of my brainspace:
Valuing nascent, emerging ideas before they’re obvious;
The future of knowledge (co)creation, synthesis, and research, in the Intelligence Age;
Mixing media and R&D to lower the barrier of entry to scientific literacy, expand the kinds of people and ideas we let in, and make discovery feel exciting again.
We're standing at the edge of the next Renaissance. Our willingness to question process, respect the uncertain, and scrap presumptions about how things 'should' be done will be formative to how we adapt.
Most recently, I worked on Analogue, a novel R&D engine for innovation funding while writing, researching, and interviewing about scientific progress, emerging problem spaces, and approaches to innovation. As you're reading, these take up most of my brainspace:
Valuing nascent, emerging ideas before they’re obvious;
The future of knowledge (co)creation, synthesis, and research, in the Intelligence Age;
Mixing media and R&D to lower the barrier of entry to scientific literacy, expand the kinds of people and ideas we let in, and make discovery feel exciting again.
I just finished studying neuroscience at MIT's McGovern Institute and bioinformatics/politics at the University of Toronto. During my schooling, I:
spun up Simulacra, a synthetic-data platform for predictive consumer analytics;
crafted health policy for Health Canada and risk-analytics tools for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency;
advised early-stage teams like Cradle and PyraSim on GTM, growth, and regulatory strategy;
conducted research on social determinants of health, health economics, and epidemiology with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health;
tissue-engineered meat-free seafood and Chief-of-Staffed at Avant Meats;
learned to cook from ~20 restauranteurs in Southeast Asia, from hawker stalls to 2-Michelin-starred establishments
My calling is in the craft. I grew two content platforms (500M+ views) and still film with creative teams from time to time, including a documentary translated from my epidemiological research and circulated by the Malaysian NIH.
I've served as an advisor to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and World Health Organization (WHO), supporting grant and funding distributions. My independent work has been backed by the Fulbright Foundation, the Malaysian NIH, Novartis, NUS, and others, for which I’m deeply grateful.
I'm about to visit my 55th country (track my travels) and host dine clubs around the world. I'm currently living in Toronto, except when I'm not, during when I split my time between Boston, NYC, and SF.
Something strike a thought? You can find me on X or email me joliegcy @ gmail.com. I love to walk and talk with people and read in coffeeshops or park benches.
If you’d like to follow along, you can subscribe for semi-regular updates — I share recent writings, crafts, and highlight other thinkers, projects, and in-betweens I find especially compelling.
I just finished studying neuroscience at MIT's McGovern Institute and bioinformatics/politics at the University of Toronto. During my schooling, I:
spun up Simulacra, a synthetic-data platform for predictive consumer analytics;
crafted health policy for Health Canada and risk-analytics tools for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency;
advised early-stage teams like Cradle and PyraSim on GTM, growth, and regulatory strategy;
conducted research on social determinants of health, health economics, and epidemiology with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health;
tissue-engineered meat-free seafood and Chief-of-Staffed at Avant Meats;
learned to cook from ~20 restauranteurs in Southeast Asia, from hawker stalls to 2-Michelin-starred establishments
My calling is in the craft. I grew two content platforms (500M+ views) and still film with creative teams from time to time, including a documentary translated from my epidemiological research and circulated by the Malaysian NIH.
I've served as an advisor to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and World Health Organization (WHO), supporting grant and funding distributions. My independent work has been backed by the Fulbright Foundation, the Malaysian NIH, Novartis, NUS, and others, for which I’m deeply grateful.
I'm about to visit my 55th country (track my travels) and host dine clubs around the world. I'm currently living in Toronto, except when I'm not, during when I split my time between Boston, NYC, and SF.
Something strike a thought? You can find me on X or email me joliegcy @ gmail.com. I love to walk and talk with people and read in coffeeshops or park benches.
If you’d like to follow along, you can subscribe for semi-regular updates — I share recent writings, crafts, and highlight other thinkers, projects, and in-betweens I find especially compelling.
I just finished studying neuroscience at MIT's McGovern Institute and bioinformatics/politics at the University of Toronto. During my schooling, I:
spun up Simulacra, a synthetic-data platform for predictive consumer analytics;
crafted health policy for Health Canada and risk-analytics tools for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency;
advised early-stage teams like Cradle and PyraSim on GTM, growth, and regulatory strategy;
conducted research on social determinants of health, health economics, and epidemiology with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health;
tissue-engineered meat-free seafood and Chief-of-Staffed at Avant Meats;
learned to cook from ~20 restauranteurs in Southeast Asia, from hawker stalls to 2-Michelin-starred establishments
My calling is in the craft. I grew two content platforms (500M+ views) and still film with creative teams from time to time, including a documentary translated from my epidemiological research and circulated by the Malaysian NIH.
I've served as an advisor to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and World Health Organization (WHO), supporting grant and funding distributions. My independent work has been backed by the Fulbright Foundation, the Malaysian NIH, Novartis, NUS, and others, for which I’m deeply grateful.
I'm about to visit my 55th country (track my travels) and host dine clubs around the world. I'm currently living in Toronto, except when I'm not, during when I split my time between Boston, NYC, and SF.
Something strike a thought? You can find me on X or email me joliegcy @ gmail.com. I love to walk and talk with people and read in coffeeshops or park benches.
If you’d like to follow along, you can subscribe for semi-regular updates — I share recent writings, crafts, and highlight other thinkers, projects, and in-betweens I find especially compelling.
Acknowledgements - I owe everything and more to the people who shaped my path — friends, mentors, and collaborators who challenged me to think deeper, create better, and Let my Life Untangle.*
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*to Let my Life Untangle means approaching science and society with curiosity rather than rigid plans. This is the working thesis of my early 20s. During undergrad, this philosophy guided me through Toronto, New York, SF, Boston, Malaysia/Singapore, Thailand, Germany, and more as I pursued seemingly disparate projects: mapping flavour compounds, motorcycling through Taiwanese tea farms, collaborating with hawker food stalls and Michelin-starred chefs alike. I found myself building a company one semester, then researching systems the next. I've approached each experience not as a step on a predetermined path, but as part of an emergent pattern that reveals — untangles — itself over time.
Acknowledgements - I owe everything and more to the people who shaped my path — friends, mentors, and collaborators who challenged me to think deeper and create better.
———
*Letting my Life Untangle means approaching science and society with curiosity rather than rigid plans. This is the working thesis of my early 20s. During undergrad, this philosophy guided me through Toronto, New York, SF, Boston, Malaysia/Singapore, Thailand, Germany, and more as I pursued seemingly disparate projects: mapping flavour compounds, motorcycling through Taiwanese tea farms, collaborating with hawker food stalls and Michelin-starred chefs alike. I found myself building a company one semester, then researching systems the next. I've approached each experience not as a step on a predetermined path, but as part of an emergent pattern that reveals — untangles — itself over time.
Acknowledgements - I owe everything and more to the people who shaped my path — friends, mentors, and collaborators who challenged me to think deeper and create better.
———
*to Let my Life Untangle means approaching science and society with curiosity rather than rigid plans. This is the working thesis of my early 20s. During undergrad, this philosophy guided me through Toronto, New York, SF, Boston, Malaysia/Singapore, Thailand, Germany, and more as I pursued seemingly disparate projects: mapping flavour compounds, motorcycling through Taiwanese tea farms, collaborating with hawker food stalls and Michelin-starred chefs alike. I found myself building a company one semester, then researching systems the next. I've approached each experience not as a step on a predetermined path, but as part of an emergent pattern that reveals — untangles — itself over time.