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bellevue, washington across the water and a small critter.

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+ +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 + +
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sourdough, and some lime scooters where they ought to be parked.

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+ +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 %} -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2