Connor Holly

About

Connor Holly

27 · Los Angeles

I dropped out of college to learn. Built and sold an e-commerce company, now I run Traders Launch (prop trading platform) and I'm Head of Product at Purpose (AI life coach). Most of my time across both is AI-related: building agents, designing workflows, thinking about memory and multi-agent systems. I've been with my partner for 11 years.

I gave Claude my hundreds of pages of journals, years of ideas, notes, and essays and asked it to put together what I'm interested in and how it would describe me. Here's the output, barely edited.

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Interests

  • AI alignment, multi-agent coordination, organic alignment
  • Consciousness, qualia, valence theory (QRI, Symmetry Theory of Valence)
  • Neuroscience, vasocomputation, electromagnetic theories of consciousness
  • Meditation, jhanas (10 years, 300+ sessions, 120+ hours)
  • Philosophy (David Deutsch, Beginning of Infinity, open individualism, fallibilism)
  • Longevity and health optimization (healthspan, not aesthetics)
  • Building AI agents and systems
  • Systems thinking, environment design
  • Trading and markets
  • Startup cities, network states
  • Psychedelics as research tools
  • Writing (3+ years of daily journaling)
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How It Describes Me

Curious generalist who wants to know everything. Fixes problems through logic and evidence. Thinks in systems and cross-domain patterns. Believes courage is more scarce than genius. Values peace over pleasure. Thinks the highest leverage things to work on are multi-agent research, consciousness research, and building things that make it easier for people to live well. Direct to a fault.

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Get in Touch

Best way to reach me is Twitter/X. I read everything.