Hi, I'm Nick Winter.

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  I'm focused on AI safety research.

  Latest: I'm handing off the CodeCombat CEO role in order to work on the most important problem.

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  I cofounded CodeCombat.

  Learn to code with CodeCombat: a coding game that teaches computer science. 20M learners and counting. It's open source!

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  I also cofounded Skritter.

  Learn Chinese or Japanese by writing characters, with stroke-level handwriting recognition and spaced repetition.

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  I wrote The Motivation Hacker.

  Check out my book about getting yourself to want to do everything you always wanted to want to do.

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  Behold the blog.

  I blog about things like coding 120 hours in a week, getting into Y Combinator on stage, and unnecessary things.

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  I own only 99 things.

  People are surprisingly interested in this. Here's the list. Helps me not think about my things.

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  I like to hack on crazy projects.

  Learn what affects your cognitive performance with Quantified Mind (butter?). Name your baby with Bantling. Do street art.

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  I'm Chloe Fan's husband.

  And also the dad of Max (2015), Clark (2017), and Ruby (2021). We recently moved from San Francisco to the Pacific Northwest.

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  Let's exchange thoughts.

  Connect! X / GitHub / Facebook / LinkedIn / email [email protected], and we shall merge minds.