Hi Andy!
I'm a software engineer professionally, but I have a few things that convey a sense of my design tastes and skills:
The first is my YouTube channel, where I'm experimenting with animated educational videos and streams.
- Here's a video I made about the Kelly Criterion.
- You might watch this to get a sense for how I design explanations.
- Here's a video I made to explain NALS (Networked ADHD Learning Streams) - my current project. It's kind of long (30 min) so I recommend just skimming the powerpoint.
- You might watch this to get a sense for how I approach "tools for thought" projects.
The second is my personal site. The site design is not mine, so it isn't a good evaluation of my web design skills, but it is a good sense of
- my web design tastes
- my writing style
- my personality
In particular, you'll find
- a post I wrote in 2020 exploring your evergreen note philosophy and how to implement it in Roam Research
- a tutorial I wrote in 2018 to get started with PyTorch (a Python deep learning framework)
I also dabbled in substacks.
- here's a "Coming Soon" post that summarizes what I would write about if I got serious about starting a newsletter again
- You might read this to get a broad sense of what interests me.
- here's a 4-part series I wrote explaining Bitcoin when I went through my crypto phase (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4)
I include this section primarily to demonstrate that I have some proficiency in Figma. I consider the following design to be fairly ugly and uninterpretable. However, it's highly relevant to building tools for thought, so I thought I'd include it:
My design for building a community knowledge graph. I'm very open to walking you through it and chatting about it!