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## About Me

### Me

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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
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.

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.

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 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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