David Bravo
Senior Industrial Engineering undergraduate @ IQS Universitat Ramon Llull
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Bio
On the verge of completing my Bachelor's in Industrial Engineering, I'm now aiming to orient my career toward high-impact cause areas.
- With my technical background, I'm currently leaning toward biosecurity. My plan is to start with independent research on pressing challenges in the field, ideally under the guidance of a mentor or organisation. With this I intend to build expertise and credibility for a future full-time role.
- At the same time, I'm very open to reconsidering my direction if I find higher-impact paths. I’m especially interested in learning more about AI safety and how I might contribute there.
Really excited to connect with others and always open to new experiences and projects.
How others can help me
- For others who are also early in their careers, I’d love to connect and share experiences. I’m always up for friendly chats. It would also be great to explore ways to collaborate on projects and build momentum together to do good.
- For more established professionals, I’d be keen to support any meaningful projects or roles where I could contribute. I’m committed, curious, organised, and eager to learn. I bring strong analytical reasoning skills and a broad technical background, thanks to my engineering degree, which has given me a solid foundation across STEM disciplines and the ability to integrate knowledge across them. Right now, I’m upskilling in biosecurity and looking for opportunities to get involved in the field.
Maybe what humans need more than more advice is advice on how to actually apply advice — that is, better ways to bridge the gap between hearing it and living it?
So not just a list of steps or clever tips, but skills and mindsets for truly absorbing what we read, hear, discuss, and turning that into action. Which I feel might mean shifting from passively waiting for something to "click" to actively digging for what someone is trying to convey and figuring out how it could work for us, just as it worked for them.
Of course, not all advice will fit us, and that's fine. We can't expect to apply all advice we get, not even all advice that really resonates. Often, the greatest act of kindness we can do for ourselves isn't working to make ourselves more perfect, but understanding and accepting our imperfection and limitations.
However, realistically, I think the bigger reason we ignore most advice isn't that it's not for us — it's that we rarely pause to ask ourselves how it might look in practise or remind ourselves to follow through. That we waste the immense potential for transformation and for acquiring new habits and behaviours that's already out there.