About

I operate by Crocker’s rule.

I’m really interested in personal development and optimizing the self; for instance, I tracked my life in 10-minute increments for 2,600 hours in 2025, equivalent to 108 days, 8 hours, and 10 minutes, and afterward made the results public.

• I am passionate about 3 things:
  • education
  • running
  • natural languages

• I identify as follows (I have not thought enough about the order yet to rank them by importance):
  • Canadian
  • Runner
  • Human
  • Unreasonable optimist
  • Learner
  • Teacher
  • Hard-worker

• I heavily prefer asymmetric longtail outcomes over guaranteed ones.
• I optimize for elegance.
• I used to do weekly review but they were ineffective so I stopped.
• You will not find the word “try” anywhere on this website except for here.

People I know who spend a lot of time revisiting old decisions are less effective because they mire themselves in what ifs and counterfactuals. So I really don’t spend time on it.

The Great Man … is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of “opinion”; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and “respectability,” and altogether everything that is the “virtue of the herd.” If he cannot lead, he goes alone. He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar. When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

— FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, The Will to Power