Benyamin Damircheli

Bio

I'm a Computer Science and Business dual-degree student at the University of British Columbia. This summer, I interned at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where I worked on infrastructure for AWS Step Functions. Whenever I am not at school or working, I've been building Bloom, an AI executive assistant for individuals that proactively gets things done for you. More on this soon.

I'm a deeply technical person and I enjoy building, learning, and breaking things. I care about understanding how things work and designing novel solutions to the problems I can't stop thinking about. Right now, I'm most interested in human-AI interaction and proactive AI assistants.

Work

Writing

Reading

2025

Atlas ShruggedAyn Rand
When Breath Becomes AirPaul Kalanithi
The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsBen Horowitz
DuneFrank Herbert
The Art of Doing Science and EngineeringRichard W. HammingReading

2024

The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Gödel, Escher, BachDouglas Hofstadter
How to Do Great WorkPaul Graham
What You'll Wish You'd KnownPaul Graham
BuildTony Fadell
SapiensYuval Noah Harari
The Beginning of InfinityDavid Deutsch
The Lean StartupEric Ries
PrinciplesRay Dalio
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

2023

Zero to OnePeter Thiel
MeditationsMarcus Aurelius
The Fall of HeavenAndrew Scott Cooper
Elon MuskWalter Isaacson

2022

Shoe DogPhil Knight
Steve JobsWalter Isaacson
BlitzscalingReid Hoffman, Chris Yeh
Lords of the DesertJames Barr

2021

Elon MuskAshlee Vance
The AlchemistPaulo Coelho