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   <p><small><i>bellevue, washington across the water and a small critter.</i></small></p>
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-I'm a computer programmer with a few years of industry software engineering under my belt, currently at AWS. I
+I'm a 22 year old programmer with a few years of industry experience under my belt, currently at AWS. I
 graduated from Utah State University in 2023 at 20 with a degree in CS and a minor in math. I live in Seattle with my partners and my dog.
 
 ### What I Do
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   <p><small><i>sourdough, and some lime scooters where they ought to be parked.</i></small></p>
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-Most of my day is spent designing, writing, and communicating about deep distributed software systems. A lot of it is plumbing (I'm not a huge fan of this part, but for some reason it's the part that pays a lot and "has visibility").
-But every once in a while I find diamonds in the rough, deep technical topics that require the application of real theory,
-which somehow seem to go undiscovered.
+Most of my day is spent designing, writing, and communicating about distributed software systems. A lot of it is plumbing (I'm not a huge fan of this part, but for some reason it's the part that pays a lot and "has visibility").
+But every once in a while I find diamonds in the rough, deep technical topics that require the application of real theory, which somehow seem to go undiscovered.
 
-Those are the problems I chase. When I encounter them, I work as hard as possible to uncover as much as possible. That often turns out to be a nothing-burger.
-But sometimes, underneath that tracing lies a <i>tremendous</i> find that, occasionaly, no one else would have caught. This part of my job is what I'm absolutely
-addicted to and get an insane amount of dopamine from. It's what I've loved about computers
-most of my life; finding needles in haystacks.
+Those are the problems I love. When I come across them, I work as hard as possible to uncover as much as possible. That often turns out to be a nothing-burger.
+But sometimes, underneath that tracing lies a <i>tremendous</i> find that no one else would have caught. This part of my job is what I get an insane amount of
+dopamine from. It's what I've loved about computers my whole life; finding needles in haystacks.
 
 I also love baking sourdough bread. I love taking long uphill runs at the end of a day in the dark of night. I love reading and obsessively learning as much as I can about, objectively,
-the most fascinating creatures there are: penguins. I love getting entrenched in something fun until 2AM. I love the hot and slightly bitter touch of a sip of fresh brewed
-coffee, as well as the blissful sweetness of a mocha. I love going on dates, taking long train rides, anime,
-Rubik's cubes, nice mechanical keyboards, music, collecting cute little stickers and stuffies, the coziness of a storm
+the most fascinating creatures there are: penguins. I love taking long train rides, anime,
+Rubik's cubes, nice mechanical keyboards, music, collecting stickers and stuffies, the coziness of a storm
 and being wrapped in a blanket.
 
-I guess my main goal in life is to not succumb to the problems with my brain. If I succeed at that for long enough, I
-want to live my life being as curious as I possibly can be. What that will ultimately look like, I don't really know. But
- I think it is leaving the industry as fast as possible and comfortably researching and asking questions to my heart's
-content without care of prestige, money, or having to constantly deliver something to prove anything. I want to spend as
-much time on this earth without these worries and with people I love and feel at home with.
-
-At least, that's the dream. It has definitely not been smooth sailing up to this point.
-
-### Beliefs
-
-I hate what capitalism has done to warp our tools into something that destroys and rots us. Devices that once made our lives a bit easier and pushed forward the frontier of science and math now record every as much as can be recorded.
-
-AI is the peak example of this rot, constantly used by capitalists to justify ripping wealth and productivity from the laborer and pluck the creativity straight
-from their heads, while they profit immensely from cutting them out entirely.
-
-But if you're here you're likely already aware of these issues and probably share similar views in which case I don't need to go any further...
-
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