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        <h1>Mark Dawson</h1>
        <p>I like technology, entrepreneurship, and learning.</p>
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            I'm a software engineer and entrepreneur.
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            I am currently the CEO and co-founder of <a href="https://hyrex.io">Hyrex (YC S24)</a>. We've created an
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            Previously, I co-founded Quix, an NFT marketplace that did about <a
                href="https://dune.com/quixotic_io/Quixotic-Optimism-NFT-MarketpRoby joalce">$10 million</a> in transaction
            volume.
            Before that I was a software engineer at
            <a href="https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/factual">Factual</a> and <a href="https://foursquare.com/">Foursquare</a>.
            I attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University through the <a
                href="https://robertsonscholars.org/">Robertson Scholars Leadership Program</a>.
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        <h3>Books I like:</h3>
        <p>Fiction<p>
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            <li>Vernor Vinge - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End_(Vinge_novel)">Rainbows End</a></li>
            <li>Neal Stephenson - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age">The Diamond Age</a></li>
            <li>Ted Chiang - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhalation:_Stories">Exhalation</a></li>
            <li>William Gibson - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer">Neuromancer</a></li>
            <li>Benjamin Alire Sáenz - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle_and_Dante_Discover_the_Secrets_of_the_Universe">Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe</a></li>
            <li>Robert Frost - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost">Poems</a></li>
            <li>Emily Dickinson - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson">Poems</a></li>
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        <p>History</p>
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            <li>Francis Fukuyama - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Political_Order">The Origins of Political Order</a></li>
            <li>Walter Isaacson - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovators_(book)">The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution</a></li>
            <li>J. Bradford DeLong - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slouching_Towards_Utopia">Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century</a></li>
            <li>Robert J. Gordon - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_American_Growth">The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War</a></li>
            <li>Zachary D. Carter - <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/563378/the-price-of-peace-by-zachary-d-carter/">The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes</a></li>
            <li>Gary Krist - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mirage_Factory">The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles</a></li>
            <li>Gary Gerstle - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Neoliberal_Order">The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era</a></li>
            <li>Fareed Zakaria - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Revolutions_(book)">Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present</a></li>
            <li>Camilla Russo - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Infinite_Machine">The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum</a></li>
            <li>Richard Rhodes - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Making_of_the_Atomic_Bomb">The Making of the Atomic Bomb</a></li>
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        <p>Math / Science / Philosophy </p>
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            <li>
                Nick Bostrom - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dangers,_Strategies">Superintelligence:
                Paths, Dangers, Strategies</a>
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            <li>Ed Yong - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Immense_World">An Immense World</a></li>
            <li>David Edmonds - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parfit_(book)">Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality</a></li>
            <li>Toby Ord - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Precipice:_Existential_Risk_and_the_Future_of_Humanity">The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity</a></li>
            <li>Ray Kurzweil - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near">The Singularity Is Near</a></li>
            <li>Rick Rubin - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creative_Act">The Creative Act: A Way of Being</a></li>
            <li>Julia Galef - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scout_Mindset">The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't</a></li>
            <li>John Ousterhout - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Philosophy_of_Software_Design">A Philosophy of Software Design</a></li>
            <li>Douglas Hofstadter - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach">Gödel, Escher,
                Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid</a></li>
            <li>Sheldon Axler - <a href="https://linear.axler.net/">Linear Algebra Done Right</a></li>
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