Tyler Park

I study Quantitative Finance and Financial Technology with a minor in Artificial Intelligence at Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science. Most of my time goes toward understanding markets, building technical products, and figuring out where better models can improve real decisions.

A polymath by nature, I enjoy learning how companies work, using my experiences in tech to understand what actually drives a business — and I love trying to beat the market, a competitive streak that comes straight from sports. I'm a social person at heart: the best parts of my week happen in teams, clubs, and long conversations.

I grew up in Los Angeles and now live in New York. Outside work, I play soccer and jazz piano, write essays, follow Tottenham and the Spurs, and continue a martial-arts practice that began more than a decade ago.

I love books. Reading is how I slow down, follow an idea past the headline, and find connections between fields that usually stay separate. Papers, films, and podcasts sit on the same shelf, along with a few voices who have changed how I think.

The OutsidersWilliam N. Thorndike★★★★☆ 4 / 5 When Genius FailedRoger Lowenstein★★★★½ 4.5 / 5 Zero to OnePeter Thiel★★★★☆ 4 / 5 Poor Charlie's AlmanackCharles T. Munger★★★★½ 4.5 / 5 BE 2.0Jim Collins & Bill Lazier★★★★☆ 4 / 5 Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Kahneman★★★★★ 5 / 5 A Random Walk Down Wall StreetBurton G. Malkiel★★★½☆ 3.5 / 5 Efficiently InefficientLasse Heje Pedersen★★★½☆ 3.5 / 5 Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky★★★★½ 4.5 / 5 The AlchemistPaulo Coelho★★★★★ 5 / 5 The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde★★★★★ 5 / 5 Never Let Me GoKazuo Ishiguro★★★★½ 4.5 / 5 The Buried GiantKazuo Ishiguro★★★★☆ 4 / 5 Rashomon and Other StoriesRyūnosuke Akutagawa★★★★★ 5 / 5 The Housekeeper and the ProfessorYōko Ogawa★★★★½ 4.5 / 5 V for VendettaAlan Moore & David Lloyd★★★★★ 5 / 5 BerserkKentaro Miura★★★★★ 5 / 5 Self-RelianceRalph Waldo Emerson★★★★★ 5 / 5 Poem · 1818OzymandiasPercy Bysshe ShelleyOzymandiasPercy Bysshe Shelley★★★★★ 5 / 5 Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes★★★★★ 5 / 5 One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez★★★★★ 5 / 5 The GiverLois Lowry★★★★★ 5 / 5 The Martian ChroniclesRay Bradbury★★★★★ 5 / 5 Animal FarmGeorge Orwell★★★★½ 4.5 / 5 1984George Orwell★★★★★ 5 / 5 When Breath Becomes AirPaul Kalanithi★★★★☆ 4 / 5 St. Francis of AssisiG. K. Chesterton★★★★★ 5 / 5 The Gnostic GospelsElaine Pagels★★★★★ 5 / 5 Race and ReunionDavid W. Blight★★★★★ 5 / 5 No Common GroundKaren L. Cox★★★★☆ 4 / 5 The Pursuit of PowerWilliam H. McNeill★★★★☆ 4 / 5 Attention Is All You NeedVaswani et al. · NeurIPS 2017★★★★★ 5 / 5 Batch NormalizationIoffe & Szegedy · ICML 2015★★★★★ 5 / 5 12 Angry MenSidney Lumet · 1957★★★★★ 5 / 5 The Princess BrideRob Reiner · 1987★★★★½ 4.5 / 5 InceptionChristopher Nolan · 2010★★★★★ 5 / 5 Questioning ChristianityTimothy Keller · Podcast★★★★★ 5 / 5 How to Build Immense Inner StrengthHuberman Lab · David Goggins · 2024★★★★★ 5 / 5 AcquiredBen Gilbert & David Rosenthal★★★★★ 5 / 5 All-InChamath, Sacks, Friedberg & Calacanis★★★★ 4 / 5 AI ResearchYann LeCunMeta · NYU · Turing AwardYann LeCunMeta · NYU · Turing Award EconomicsPaul KrugmanNobel 2008 · SubstackPaul KrugmanNobel 2008 · Substack MentorJosh LeeCEO, UniquifyJosh LeeCEO, Uniquify Research MentorMarc OpperUniversity of VirginiaMarc OpperUniversity of Virginia InvestingCharlie MungerBerkshire Hathaway · 1924–2023Charlie MungerBerkshire Hathaway · 1924–2023

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