a brief arrangement of stardust · presently coherent

I build things worth making, and wonder about things worth knowing.

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Career

since 2021

Living equations

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Field notes

Calibrated guesses

held loosely · revised often
  • Agnostic Autonomy — Nationalism is an outdated protocol; borders are violent fictions. I don't know if a prime mover exists, but I am certain the universe has no designated jurisdictions. Code transcends geography — so should human movement.
  • Optimistic Nihilism — The cosmos owes us no meaning, and it is wildly liberating to compile our own. Memento mori isn't morbid; it is the ultimate compiler warning. We are briefly coherent stardust building things that won't last — which is precisely why we must build them beautifully.
  • Scientific Rigor — Science and art are identical projects running on different hardware: both attempt to compress the infinite universe into a format humans can hold. But a model is never the territory. We measure rigorously, knowing our tools are small.
  • Calibrated Humility — Certainty is a cognitive vulnerability. Ideology is simply a frozen answer to a question that must remain open. I do not believe in believing. "I don't know" is the highest-resolution map of reality we possess.
  • Automation as Sovereignty — Eliminating toil is a moral imperative, not a productivity hack. Machines exist to handle the deterministic, freeing consciousness to experience the absurd. We automate the repetitive to reclaim the only finite resource we have: time.