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Hello there.

I could write a professional bio here about how I’m someone that is passionate about software engineering and building products, but I suspect there’s very little unique value in writing the same thing that everyone else says. Yes, I’m passionate about those things, but I’m also fanatical about systems and the way people think as a whole.

Ever more important than ever is systems design, which is not ingrained in the majority of the population. For one, we lack universal understanding in all of the following areas that societal policies are based on: Science, Engineering, Abstraction, Aesthetics, and Tinkering. People with those 5 traits tend to be the ones that can drive a system forward, and it’s quite a shame that such few people have all of those traits. Instead, most policy decisions are made with very surface level thinking, and we get bureaucracy because no one actually knows what’s going on.

Literacy, like the above 5 traits, was once considered an arcane field, with very few being able to read. In the US, nearly 90% of the population can read at least a little bit, which is what makes the modern economy and democracy possible in the first place. Could you imagine the behavior of a democracy full of illiterate participants? Now expand the term literacy to include the 5 traits, and ask yourself the same question.

Universal literacy was achieved through a system of public education that was invented long before computing, and has stayed fundamentally the same since. However, we clearly need more knowledge than what is taught in school, because our systems and scope of policy are larger and ever more complicated. Something qualitatively different is needed, something that actually uses a medium for collaboration over automation.

Some people that I’m influenced by. (This list will likely grow over time.)

This page will not be updated very frequently. If you want a synopsis of my current circumstances, see now.