What is this?
tl;dr This is where I’ll post some of my writing, mostly based around criticism and critical thinking.
I started keeping a regular, personal journal during my senior year in high school. I did this for a variety of reasons: I thought it would improve my writing, and I had read that it was “good for you”.
This is not my journal.
… but at that point I set a precedent for writing regularly. The summer after my senior year in high school I started writing about movies I had seen, because I always forgot them and thought writing my thoughts would be useful.
This was my introduction to criticism. Initially, my movie “reviews” were just a few sentences like “It was good movie and I liked it.” Over time, my critiques developed, and I began to expand beyond film into writing about books. Separately, during my sophomore year in college, I became more interested in critical thinking, and evaluating claims logically and rationally.
At this point (beginning of 2016), I feel like I’ve developed my writing enough that I’d like to start circulating it more widely, so I’ve taken the full plunge and decided to post it completely in public on the Internet. Make no mistake: I am not qualified be a professional critic, but I believe my views are sometimes unique and—I hope one day—will become insightful.
Who are you?
I grew up in Massachusetts, went to school at the University of Michigan, and now I work in the bay area as a software “engineer”.
I’m interested in criticism, critical thinking, rationality, skepticism, relationships, and disagreements (especially ones that shouldn’t happen).
Here are links to some of my online profiles:
How was this website built?
It’s built on Jekyll using a modified version of @mdo’s Lanyon theme, and it’s hosted with Github pages.
