Background
I'm a science nerd in the empiricist tradition of Francis Bacon and an aspiring poet working his way to expressing pain & prosody like Du Fu and Rahman Baba. I write prose to express material experience as John Steinbeck, Lu Xun, and Takiji Kobayashi did, while writing essays to make Lord Verulam blush with candor.
My personal experience matches that of Ludwig Wittgenstein as I too famously said in my youth, to paraphrase, "I'll either be a madman or a genius." But unfortunately I've become a madman rather than finding ingenuity. I read Gogol & Xun's Diary of a Madman, and found that my own journal entries matched near perfectly in ethos to what they described.
Well, c'est la vie! I burnished my understanding of science with Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, and Aristotle, in that order. I shy away from Latour and others, perferring most times what I call a naive or vulgar empiricism.
I don't have much more to say, thanks for reading!
Experience
Interests
- Philosophy
- Camping & Hiking
- Politics
- Consumer Electronics
- Biographies & Autobiographics
- Computer Games
- Calligraphy
- Bookbinding
- Industrial Design
- Statistics
- Typography
- ...and many more!
Currently Reading (not kept up to date!)
- Misery and Glory: The Long March and its Antecedents | Jin Yinan, 2020
- A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller Jr., 1959
- Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise | Anders Ericsson, 2016
- The Crab Cannery Ship and Other Novels of Struggle | Kobayashi Takiji
- Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud | Sandy Gall, 2021