Nicholas Khorasani

Computer Engineer | Software Engineer

About Me

I'm a master's student in Computer Science at Columbia University (Graduating December 2025). Before this, I studied Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo (Graduated 2024). I built this site to share a bit about myself and the things I love.

Like all humans, I love to be excited. And to me, there's nothing more exciting than the superpowers computers have given us. I can tap a glass rectangle filled with silicon carvings, and —boom— I’m watching people tumble down a hill chasing a wheel of cheese at the Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake. Honestly, if that’s not magic, I don’t know what is.

Beliefs I hold dear:

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    I am the product of my experiences. So I should curate them carefully.
  • 🤔
    It's vital to know why you believe what you believe.
  • 🔬
    At every single moment, I am wrong about something. And that's exciting!
  • 🌍
    There is something to learn from everybody on the planet.
  • There are more unanswered questions than answered ones.

Ideas I find interesting:

  • 🌀
    Ideological Freedom is incredibly rare and incredibly valuable.
  • 🌱
    Ideas grow and evolve like organisms. They have replication mechanisms, immune systems, and they compete for dominance in our shared consciousness.
  • 🐔
    The Factory Farmed Chickens on the planet - all 23 billion of them - are living in the matrix.

Stuff that makes me happy:

  • Play & watch soccer! (or ping pong, or basketball or pickleball, or literally any other sport)
  • 🎧
    Podcasts! My favorites include: Sean Carroll's Mindscape, Acquired, 99% Invisible, Against the Rules, and Hidden Brain.
  • 🛠️
    Learning about how and why things work (Technologies, Institutions, Soccer tactics etc.)
  • 📹
    Youtube!! Some channels I love are: Polylog, Wendover Productions, 3Blue1Brown, Asianometry, and PBS Space Time.
  • 📚
    Books! Recently I've enjoyed: Making Sense of Chaos,The Power Broker, Stormlight Archives, Stolen Focus, Crescent City Series, The Ideological Brain, and Deep Work.

Photo Gallery

Here are some photos of me outside of work ✨