About Me & This Website

Who I Am

I’m a writer, engineer, and curious generalist. I spend my time thinking about systems, technology, literature, and how human beings make sense of a rapidly accelerating world.

I believe that clarity of writing is clarity of thinking. This website serves as a public notebook and digital homestead where I test hypotheses, publish long-form essays, and share what I’m learning along the way.

Interests & Pursuits

• Software Craftsmanship: Building reliable, uncomplicated software that solves real problems without unnecessary dependencies.
• Philosophy & Epistemology: Understanding how we know what we know, decision-making under uncertainty, and ethical philosophy.
• Long-form Writing: Exploring nuance in an era of 280-character soundbites and automated noise.
• The Open Web: Championing hyperlinked text, personal digital gardens, and decentralized internet culture.

Some Principles I Try to Live By

1. Default to action: Thinking is easy; shipping and testing against reality is where true learning happens.
2. Seek disconfirming evidence: If you don't know the strongest arguments against your viewpoint, you don't understand the problem yet.
3. Value substance over spectacle: Optimize for depth and timeless quality rather than transient metrics or fleeting novelty.
4. Be open and generous: Share what you know freely, welcome constructive disagreement, and treat correspondence with warmth.

Influences & What I’m Reading

A few books and essays that have left a lasting impression on how I think:

• The Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman
• Gödel, Escher, Bach — Douglas Hofstadter
• Essays and Aphorisms — Arthur Schopenhauer
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions — Thomas Kuhn
• Essays by Paul Graham, Ted Chiang, and Ursula K. Le Guin

Colophon (About This Website)

It is crafted with semantic HTML5, modern CSS3, and tiny sprinkles of vanilla JavaScript for the theme toggle and random essay generator. It is hosted on Vercel via GitHub.

Typography uses a carefully calibrated serif stack (Charter, Sitka, Cambria, Georgia) tuned for maximum reading comfort and typographic hierarchy.

Contact & Correspondence

I love receiving cold emails from people who stumbled across my site. If an essay resonated with you, if you disagree with something I wrote, or if you simply want to exchange ideas, please feel free to drop me a note:

Email: hello@example.com
GitHub: @yourusername
Twitter/X: @yourhandle