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 Shrugged— Ayn Rand★
When Breath Becomes Air— Paul Kalanithi★
The Hard Thing About Hard Things— Ben Horowitz
Dune— Frank Herbert
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering— Richard W. HammingReading
2024
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn★
Gödel, Escher, Bach— Douglas Hofstadter★
How to Do Great Work— Paul Graham★
What You'll Wish You'd Known— Paul Graham★
Build— Tony Fadell
Sapiens— Yuval Noah Harari
The Beginning of Infinity— David Deutsch★
The Lean Startup— Eric Ries
Principles— Ray Dalio
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
2023
Zero to One— Peter Thiel★
Meditations— Marcus Aurelius
The Fall of Heaven— Andrew Scott Cooper
Elon Musk— Walter Isaacson
2022
Shoe Dog— Phil Knight★
Steve Jobs— Walter Isaacson★
Blitzscaling— Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh
Lords of the Desert— James Barr
2021
Elon Musk— Ashlee Vance
The Alchemist— Paulo Coelho



