Math and theoretical computer science force you to be precise. - Rediet Abebe

I keep coming back to is poverty because ultimately, whether or not an individual lives in poverty determines their access to education, housing, healthcare, and is therefore a root cause of many issues in these areas.

I never thought of myself as someone who works in education but somehow I keep coming back to it so there’s got to be something there.

Mechanism design is like if you had an algorithm designed, but you were aware that the input data is something that could be strategically manipulated. So you’re trying to create something that’s robust to that. This is a wonderful approach, incorporating robustness into the process of designing inputs.