19 May 2024
So this is the first paragraph of my website.
It took me a while to get this up.
I was stressed and overwhelmed by all sorts of things. Mainly the tech stack. While I understand computer science principles on a theoretical level — and I also understand how APIs and frontends and backends work — I was a bit confused by how to get things up and running on a cloud provider.
Thankfully, I came across Vercel through the startup I work at, and it seems to make all of the hosting easy.
So here I am, with my first website.
I have built websites before, but they were mainly just Wix or Weebly websites. And it was back when I was in middle school and early high school. When I had more time, more ambition, and more creativity. Before the rot of trying to fit in and agressively pursuing that desire full-time came in.
After much exploration in life, a chronic disease, a few languages learned, a few countries visited, a few degrees earned, a few jobs worked, and a lot of relationships — platonic and romantic — had and lost later, I'm finally at a point where I feel ready to start putting my thoughts out there for the world to see.
I'm excited for what this next phase of my life holds. I hope to find more fulfillment in myself, my friends and family, the beauty in the world around me, and my career. I hope to continue to pursue things that will improve the human condition. Some of that will be a quest for knowledge. Some of that will be building something with the knowledge I already have. And some of it will be trying to share that knowledge with others.
I approach this website humbly. I believe — and I always tell myself — I know nothing.
It's true. The amount of knowledge that exists in the world is constantly growing at a rate faster than I can learn it. The portion that I know is constantly asymptotically approaching zero.
And everyone, regardless of their background, has something to teach me. And future me has a lot to teach the current me. So I am not in a position to give advice. Not now, and I believe, not ever.
Everything written here is just my thoughts. If you have something to add, or have questions, email me. I don't know for sure how the future me will feel, but I think I would love to chat.