Primary Job Title Founder Primary Organization 
BetterExplained
Location Seattle, Washington, United States Regions Greater Seattle Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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I’m an extremely curious person and love sharing insights with others. While studying Computer Science at Princeton University I started a site to explain concepts as I would have liked to learn them. BetterExplained is a continuation of that idea.
I’m grateful to report the site reaches 250k monthly visitors, is assigned as reading in dozens of
university courses, and has been referenced in Science Magazine, along with the blogs for the New York Times, The Atlantic, O’Reilly Radar, Scientific American, and the National Academy of Sciences. The book Math, Better Explained is a well-received Amazon bestseller.
After college I spent a few years at Microsoft as a program manager, worked on several projects (such as InstaCalc, a real-time, shareable calculator and ContestMachine (Y Combinator)) and currently do software development for MindTouch. Feel free to ping me at kalid@betterexplained.com. I’ve done a few interviews and am happy to answer questions. I’m still figuring out my path to lifelong learning, and it’s been a fun ride so far.
