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+title: About
+---
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+{% markdown %}
+
+## About Me
+
+### Me
+
+<div class="text-center">
+  <img width="200" src="/assets/bellevue.jpeg" />
+  <img width="200" src="/assets/critter.jpeg" />
+
+  <p><small><i>bellevue, washington across the water and a small critter.</i></small></p>
+</div>
+
+I'm programmer with a few years of industry software engineering 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 partner
+and dog, Gus.
+
+### What I Do
+
+<div class="text-center">
+  <img width="200" src="/assets/bread.jpeg" />
+  <img width="200" src="/assets/scooters_on_ceiling.jpeg" />
+
+  <p><small><i>sourdough, and some lime scooters where they ought to be parked.</i></small></p>
+</div>
+
+Most of my days are spent designing, writing, and communicating about deep distributed software systems. A lot of it is plumbing.
+But every once in a while I find diamonds in the rough—those really 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 dive as far and work as hard as possible to uncover as much as possible. That often turns out to be a nothing-burger.
+But sometimes, underneath all the layers lies a tremendous find no one else would have caught. This part of my job is what I'm absolutely
+addicted to and get so much dopamine from, once that last puzzle piece clicks. It's what I've loved about computers
+most of my 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
+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 watch us with as much detail as
+can be recorded.
+
+AI is a peak example of this rot, used to justify ripping wealth and productivity from the laborer and pluck the creativity straight
+from their heads, while the most wealthy profit 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...
+
+{% endmarkdown %}