justin liao
justin liao (born march 15, 1994) is an american operator and builder from long island. not to be confused with the newport beach physician, the leo berwick managing director, or the boston university swimmer of the same name.[5]
early life
raised on the north shore of long island. sent to taipei for middle school, then back to long island for high school.[6] taiwanese american.
service
joined the manhasset-lakeville fire department, company 2, in 2011, the first day he visited the station. hook and ladder. sunday drills. left in 2016 because he could not make the annual call quota while working in the city, and has not rejoined.[2]
career
vanderbilt issued a very handsome piece of paper that lives in a drawer.[1] since then: interesting problems with interesting people. the worlds, briefly, none of which know about each other:
- the operating system inside an agentic data company
- a sleep brand that is secretly a longevity play
- a company that believes in exactly one molecule
- a public person's deal flow
- a market book run with a council of machines whose opinions he keeps score on
- a second brain that knows him better than he does
a 2022 version of this site called him a luck engineer. it has been struck through.[7]
the body
calisthenics, mostly. in 2026 he reached 30 of the 32 pull-ups from a helicopter that the world record requires,[3] then did jiu jitsu at three in the morning, which took the elbow. the elbow is recovering. the record is not going anywhere.
personal life
- taiwanese american
- volunteer firefighter for five years; company two runs one of the department's two ladders
- two reps short of a world record, off a helicopter
- threw a two-hundred-person new year's eve party in a firehouse ballroom; was very nearly removed from the department
- horseback riding, skeet, climbing things, racing cars
- keeps a written list of the ways he'd ruin his life and reads it on sundays
- keeps a calendar of annual traditions: south carolina twice a year, aspen on presidents day, newport in july
- failed to make his fire department's annual quota in 2016 and left rather than stay as a name on a roster
see also
the map · the firehouse · beliefs · smoke break · staff
references
- vanderbilt university. the paper itself is in a drawer; the belief it produced is on beliefs under "against the grain."
- manhasset-lakeville fire department, company #2. the rest is in the firehouse.
- guinness world records, most pull-ups from a helicopter in one minute.
- sketchplanations, the fun scale. the promotions are on the front door.
- this site's own structured data says the same thing to machines. two audiences.
- the taipei card, above. the island line is on beliefs under "what i carry."
- beliefs, "things i've changed my mind about." struck through, dated, left visible.