Statement of purpose

This is my personal blog. We live in such divided, politically contentious and in some ways dangerous times.

We also live in amazing, best-ever times. I think we should try to lower the temperature, respect each other more, try harder to understand each other, and generally respect hard the difference between how well and how badly things could go from here.

So I want to write about all that.

About me

I took Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Philosophy in college. I worked briefly as an economist, but decided to focus on programming professionally.

I am particularly interested in how poorly we use databases. I write about that at lydb.xyz.

I am also interested in finding better ways of writing and using software — particularly, how to enable non-programmers to do their own computing, as they can with the likes of Excel and Access. I write about that at frest.substack.com.

I have maintained an interest in matters economics and philosophical. And I think there are some things to say that aren’t being said — at least, not being said in the way I think they should be. About respect, in the end. Respect leads to thoughts about poverty, development, politics, ethics and other things. I will write about those things here.

I am also interested in where technology is taking us. We are entering the singularity! Everyone should be thinking about that. I will write about that also.