Simply put, because I think my words are worth sharing.
There are plenty of stories and advice already out in the world, but I haven’t encountered my own. A younger version of myself would have found these blog posts hopefully useful, possibly interesting, and at worst, definitely present.
That’s not to say my motivations are entirely selfless. I want to express my opinions here, even if other people disagree with them. I want to improve my writing quality. In part, these posts explain who I am and how I think, better than a bullet-point résumé1 or online profile.
What do I write about?
I write about topics interesting to me. The general focus of this blog is on “life and technology”, which covers a lot of ground. If this blog morphs to focus on one area in particular, I’ll update this post to clarify what that area is.
December 6th, 2025 Update
Why Substack?
These blog posts currently exist in written form scattered throughout various paper notebooks. Originally, I planned on adding these posts to my personal website. However, the majority of blogs that I read are on Substack. It therefore made sense to me to upload my thoughts here instead of somewhere less discoverable.2
AI
One cannot start a new blog in 2025 without discussing AI.
These post were not written with AI or other computer assistance tools, excluding Substack and Firefox spell checking. For the most part, these posts are going to be transcriptions of my paper notebooks into digital form, with relevant data (if any), charts (as appropriate), and links (as necessary) added during that process to finalize the posts.
Because I do expect to be transcribing posts discussing AI or computer-generated charts, I will call out whenever any content is computer-generated.
For example, the following dipole antenna pattern chart was made with openEMS and graphed with matplotlib. Qwen3-Coder (specifically, qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-fp16) was used to swap the chart from Cartesian to polar projection.
Questions
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