About

This site collects essays and tools about orientation, conviction, and tinkering. Here is some context about the person behind it.

I grew up in a Catholic family. From that world I inherited two things that never left me: the idea of humanity as a whole, and the sense that one's stance toward the world matters. At the same time, I discovered early that I could not accept "believe it" as a sufficient answer. That tension has stayed with me.

At fourteen I fell in love with philosophy and science. Around the same time I bought my first computer and learned Basic, and not much later I got my first guitar. Thinking, building, and shaping form became intertwined.

After I finished school I studied anthropology, philosophy, and musicology, drawn to questions of culture, structure, and meaning. Yet I struggled to find an intellectual home, a way of thinking about myself and the world that felt right. After graduating I decided to leave academia. But the questions stayed with me.

For more than twenty years I have worked in technical operations, security, and data science, often leading teams in environments where systems can fail hard and decisions have consequences. That experience changed how I think about responsibility. Ideas, I learned, must survive contact with reality. Being a father of three has only deepened that conviction.

Throughout those years I kept writing privately, trying to articulate a way of thinking that I could stand on. In 2025 I decided the ideas were coherent enough to test in public. This site is part of that experiment.

Alongside this work I study mathematics. I needed it for data science and technical work, but also for logic, probability, statistics, cryptography, and formal systems more generally. After learning these tools piece by piece, and only as much as needed, I decided now is the time to work through the foundations. I expect my thinking to benefit from that rigor.

If you have thoughts, comments, or questions, please reach out to me at sk [dot] 1241 [at] nym [dot] hush [dot] com.