Welcome to my site. I like to write, create, and read, and I see this as an opportunity to share some of that with you. If you want to learn more about me, my bio is below. I mostly use this site to post my writing, where I discuss my theories, beliefs, and some one-off takes. If you’re new, I recommend reading oughtlessness to start.
bio
I grew up in Norfolk, Virginia and attended Norfolk Academy for 12 years, graduating in 2015. I moved to Claremont, California to attend Harvey Mudd College, graduating in 2019 with a degree in general Engineering. While at college I interned twice at Urschel, a manufacturing company in Indiana, where I spent one summer on the foundry line and the second as a manufacturing engineer. After sophomore year I worked at Harvey Mudd to improve hardware and software for an underwater robotics course. In my senior year, my capstone project involved working with 4 other students to create manufacturing plans from scratch for Locally Grown Power, a Claremont non-profit startup dedicated to bringing next-generation solar panels to low income households. While at Harvey Mudd I became obsessed with 3D tic tac toe, eventually founding XNO LLC in an effort to share the game with others.
After graduating college, I worked full time on XNO LLC for 3 months, including launching a Kickstarter campaign to try to sell my device. When that did not succeed I transitioned to developing the iOS app I had begun as a partner app, now as a standalone project. As I continued development work in my off time, I started work for Locally Grown Power, working to refresh the plans my team had made, apply for city approval, source the necessary equipment, and bring on a lead engineer. I left Locally Grown Power in the spring of 2020 to begin a VISTA service year at HopeWorks, a job training organization in Everett, Washington. At HopeWorks, I have helped develop curriculum for trainees and continue to work on reorganizing and transferring the trainee data tracking system.
There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will ACT like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
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