Hello! My name is Aaron Gertler.
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About Me
I was born on May 27, 1993. The next 15 years were kind of a blur. In 2008, I started keeping a journal to make up for my atrocious memory. Since then, I’ve written down most of the things I do or think about.
I attend Yale, where I write for companies and publications, lead a humor magazine and a nonprofit, and study cognitive science. On the side, I read books, watch movies, and sometimes accomplish things.
Outside of school, I’m interested in rationality, effective altruism, physical fitness, and the hazy concept of “collaboration” — ways that people work together (scientific research, verbal discourse, legal systems, and so on).
Trivia
I’m bad at coming up with personal “fun facts”, but here’s a list I’ll reference whenever someone asks me, in the future, for said facts. Sometimes blogging comes in handy!
- I’ve signed the Giving Pledge.
- I lost a tooth in a fistfight when I was 7 years old. (It grew back.)
- I’ve attempted two National Novel Writing Months, and written 1.5 terrible novels.
- I want to live forever. Or at least long enough to know that my children will live forever.