I’m a Software Engineer +5 years experience who publishes, presents, and ships things because that’s how you test thought — otherwise you risk the unverifiable echo chamber of your own head. My core thesis is that publishing makes the stakes real: shipping something you’re genuinely wrong about costs you, and that cost forces iteration. When I publish, it’s not that I think I’m right; it’s that I’m not afraid to be wrong about a plausible interpretive model. Holding conviction and commitment in practice whilst being detached makes for meaningful iteration, as emotions and attachment to desire and outcomes introduce noise into your feedback loop and disrupt energy flow. Conviction and commitment come from modeling the world and shipping products, perspectives, and new behaviors; detachment comes from being willing to let go when reality or others undermine your model.
Having a real stake and seeing where placing bets leads you is beyond feelings and theory, and it produces deep insights while forcing iteration. I take care of my health and fitness to sustain that capacity: to perform well, iterate more, and stay sane. I do experience fades and sickness after pushing my limits, but that’s a small price for finding out what I’m capable of. The point is to risk being unbalanced in order to progress.
PSA: Sorry if I’ve ever been unresponsive; I’m often deep in thought or engrossed in investigation through lived experience - blocking out noise to increase the signal.
Personal Philosophy & Influences
Given incomplete knowledge and the limitations of communication, continuous epistemic humility is essential: be aware of your emotions, desires, and biases, keep an open mind, and stay mindful. That humility extends to epistemic method itself, because not all knowledge is propositional or procedural. For example, Gödel’s incompleteness theorems establish that any sufficiently powerful formal system contains truths it cannot prove from within — logic has inherent limits on its own terms. The unknown unknown set extends this: the boundary of what we don’t know is itself invisible from inside our investigative scope. And beyond these formal limits, language is sequential and lossy while experience is simultaneous and only partially encodable with language. The core lesson is that reality exceeds our methods, and that is the context for the tragic adventure of your life. Some domains — direct experience, body awareness, meditative practice — can be pointed to and developed, but not fully transmitted; their content has to be encountered rather than communicably received.
From this position I’ve developed a personal philosophy of Liminal Existentialism with roots in Platonism, Existentialism, and the anthropological and psychological concept of Liminality. In practice, it means navigating uncertainty by holding competing perspectives in tension and testing them through experience. I can use post-structuralist, post-modern, mimetic, and evolutionary thought to deconstruct ideas and phenomena and propose perspectives; however, I’m less ready to turn them into actionable insights.
Practicing epistemic humility produces a near-constant condition of uncertainty, and not noticing how and why you act in faith despite doubt can induce nausea, absurdity, confusion, anxiety, and even depression. If you’re curious about this dynamic and how it shows up, read more here: Living in Uncertainty with Epistemic Humility.
I maintain my commitment to epistemic humility by inducing Dropout: breaking out of Sameness, pursuing Self-Estrangement and rites of passage through new content, new concepts, new experiences, suspension of belief, body awareness, attachment awareness, and skepticism. This keeps me connected to the continual iteration of my operational framework of Liminal Existentialism and pursuit of self-knowledge. Explore, consolidate, reflect, hypothesize, repeat; that is the process.
We should all be open to feedback. However, I don’t think we should conflate it with seeking approval from people or institutions. When it comes to finding meaning in the face of mortality, I don’t think constructing or committing to a belief system to bolster faith and confidence is the right immediate answer. These things are important and substantial. However, beyond eating well and developing physical fitness, curious, intellectual, and truth-seeking people are best served by improving body awareness and mindfulness, learning about Energy Management & Flow, acquiring new skills, being of value to others, and becoming a functional member of your community. That is the practical priority.
Personally, I wish I had developed this internal awareness before encountering dangerous ideologies — without an internal reference point, such systems are harder to evaluate and harder to exit. But we all start somewhere, with some life circumstance and level of awareness. Build self-knowledge through diverse experiences and challenges, then reflect and meditate to sort what you learn. The central responsibility is to improve your life—even after trauma, suffering, and injustice, there is a sovereignty in seeking awareness and well-being over complete knowledge, righteousness, or retribution.
Political Alignment
In practice, I vote with my feet, dollar, attention, and behavior.
When it comes to technology, economics, and governance, I don’t hold a fixed ideological position — I’m not an accelerationist, decelerationist, or a believer in categorically big or small government. My position is anti-singleton: competing alternatives must always exist, because adaptation requires variation and selection. Concentrations of power that eliminate competition — whether corporate, governmental, or ideological — eliminate the feedback loops that correct error. That is the governing principle.
This means liberalism and conservatism are tools, not identities. Enabling access to equal opportunity is worth striving for under conditions of stability, growth, and surplus. Right now, given the pace of technological change, the disruption it’s causing to behavior and norms, and our increasing detachment from hard-won human wisdom, caution is also warranted. The two aren’t mutually exclusive — they’re context-dependent responses to different conditions.
I oppose rent-seeking: extracting value by repackaging and redistributing existing resources rather than developing or refining systems and producing new resources. The engineering ethos is to build something, then improve it. Value should come from compounding capability, not from positioning yourself between existing value and those who need it. In more active cases, rent-seekers manufacture a distortion — shifting actual or perceived value — and profit from the cascade as that signal spreads through the network.
Goals & Alignment
Notions of eternal recurrence and Samsara aren’t completely abstract for me — I’ve connected to them through experience. My intention is to transcend Samsara, though I hold that aim with a level of detachment: grasping at the exit closes it, and obligations to people I love may be the right reason to remain in Samara — I’m at peace with that. The path forward is cultivating positive dharma and developing as a meditator. Beyond that, I want to become wise and pursue alignment, clarity, peace, freedom, value creation — and to share that with the world and people I care about.
It’s through self-care, working, reflecting and writing that I will iterate toward the completion of these goals. Practically speaking, writing about these topics, as well as the protocols and procedures that produce progress and success are under development. If you want to know more, you are can start be reading On Procrastination, ‘Discipline’ & Mastery.