I’m Liam Rosen.
I’m a startup entrepreneur, consummate rationalist, quantitative self-developer, effective altruist, magazine founder, ultimate commentator, semi-professional athlete, and many other compound adjective-noun pairs.
Why “Wired Differently”? Because my brain seems to be wired in a unique way that leads me to live a life that few would consider normal, so I created this site to chronicle it.
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In college, my best friend Adam and I created a comprehensive wiki to document our entire childhood growing up across the street from each other in suburban Portland, Oregon, including catchphrases, memes, and full cast of neighborhood characters.
I learned five foreign languages to fluency as an adult by developing a regimented system, which I detail in my Beginner’s Guide to Language Learning.
I score 100/100 on the extroversion section of Meyers-Briggs. I gain enormous amounts of energy from any sort of social interaction. I can socialize endlessly without tiring: at sales conferences, I often leave a day of having met over 100 new people more energized than when I started.
I have musical anhedonia, which means I find music an unenjoyable form of entertainment. I also don’t watch TV series, read fiction books, have all my social feeds blocked, and I deliberately avoid the news cycle. Friends sometimes joke that I’m a robot, which makes all my parts and circuits sad.
The sport of ultimate has formed a large part of my life:
- In 2010, I co-founded Skyd Magazine, which grew to become the sport’s largest media resource.
- I’ve played for two different semi-professional ultimate teams in San Francisco and Pittsburgh.
- I won a gold medal with the USA in the Pan-American Ultimate Championships in 2013, and I’ve played in the World Ultimate Championships twice: with Mexico in 2016 and with China in 2018.
I’m probably best known across the internet for the Beginner’s Guide to Health and Fitness, which has been 4chan /fit/’s sticky for many years.
I founded and ran the East Bay’s first “semi-intentional coliving for normal people”, called the Bauhaus, from 2015-2021. We housed 25 different people during our run.
In 2016, having never used Instagram, I announced my plans to become “instafamous”. Over the next few years, I grew my following to 12K by creating a ridiculous caricature of myself with mainstream appeal. Dismayed by the culture surrounding Instagram in our society, I’ve since deleted most of my followers and now maintain a more minimal presence.
In 2022, I was Miami and New York City’s most ethical club promoter. I saw a gap in an industry plagued by sketchy promoters, aggressive doormen, and suspicious clientele and created my own brand, building a rolodex of thousands of partygoers who wanted a safe, more connective experience for their night out.
By day, I help TopScore conquer the world of web platforms for youth and adult sports. I was recruited to join the company in 2014, somehow they let me become CEO along the way. We’re quite a unique company: we don’t believe in hierarchy, have almost complete transparency, and
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