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Jasper Burns
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Jasper Burns

I’m energized by learning, exploring, and creating.

With this one life, I want to fly planes, build companies, cook great meals, read great books, and be broadly capable.

I am a JD/MBA and Knight‑Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University.

Before that, I spent eight years in the Navy flying the EA‑18G Growler fighter jet (a variant of the F/A‑18 Super Hornet), as a social aide at the White House, and as a fellow at both McKinsey & Co. and the Institute for Law & AI.

I am a cross-functional technical operator. On deployment, I commanded strike packages of mixed fighter jets and ran a 43‑sailor division that took the squadron’s radar, electrical, and avionics systems from non-operational to mission-capable. As an undergraduate, I studied computer science; as a graduate student, I am leading multiplayer AI privacy research with a Stanford Engineering lab.

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I am building my worldview from first principles, one chapter at a time. Subscribe to read it as it is written.

Navigating Fog: essays on my moral philosophy.

Part I

Which Way Up?

This series of essays explores how I envision living a good life.

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Tools, research, and side builds.