What I'm Looking For

I'm looking for a collaborator who matches my comfort and proficiency with Python, but in the realm of React. Your experience level is secondary to your confidence and fluency with your tools. I need someone looking for in-depth and straightforward code reviews. My critiques are thorough, often leading to substantial refactorings. But they're grounded in extensive experience, and I value a partner who sees the benefit in that level of detail.

Currently, my class is closed, so if you're a student, while I'm happy to talk to you, I'm not able to teach you. It's essential that you're ready to engage actively in a two-way dialogue about our code, willing to both offer and receive critical feedback. Whether you're a seasoned professional or a committed student doesn't matter, as long as you approach this project with a readiness to learn and build new things.

I'm making rapid progress on complex backend tooling and need a front-end specialist who can ensure the user interface is as powerful and effective as the underlying architecture. If this sounds like a partnership you’re looking for, I’m eager to connect and see what we can achieve together.

Some Statistics

I'll have better ones eventually when I build machines to do it, because that's what I do, I build machines.

But here's some stats off the top of my head

The median response time to a post like this is 6 hours

The average number of replies I get to a non-python teaching post is 2

About 2k people see each post

In the last 5 months I've been doing this, I've connected with about 900 people, give or take.

Out of those 900 connections, I've made genuine connections with about 5 people.

Out of all my posts, my second python post is the most successful, with about 200 responses.

Out of my non-python posts, the redacted one has been the second most successful at kicking off dynamic and interesting conversations.

It's easy to get discouraged by these numbers. But these numbers show what people already know. Making friends is hard and genuine connections are rare

Introduction

First off. I want someone who reads.

I know that's an inaccessible statement.

I love all my friends with dyslexia, but I have enough of them.

I do my best to live my life in public, and my reddit is, I hope, reflective of at least part of who I am. But because I do actually care about accessibility very deeply, the rest of this post is going to go over things you can (and can't) learn about me by digging through my public self.

About Me

The SFW Parts

I am many things, here are some of them

Senior Cloud Engineer I've spent the last 7 years of my life doing cloud engineering for big companies. I've gotten pretty good at it, but I prefer not to talk about work. One thing that this has given me though is an opportunity to think at scale. So many things become radically different at scale. And that's why I'm trying to introduce everyone to thinking this way.

PhD Student I am currently in the process of indexing and ordering my research on Information, Logistics, Collaboration, and their role in brain function, with specific focus on learning and education. I don't currently don't have anything worth reading, but I've done a ton of research and will likely bring it up quite often (because it's relevant often). One of the difficulties I'm having is figuring out what I want to get my degrees in. Current contenders are Information Science, Electrical Engineering, Education, Psychology, and Neuroscience, though this list always seems to be growing.

Inventor The first thing people ask when they hear this title is "What have you invented?" and that's exactly what I would ask too. Unfortunately, most of my inventions are owned by aforementioned big companies. Which is why I've recently trying to focus on non-work related inventions. And that project is going well. I have several prototypes that are undergoing testing and the results are promising. Several of these inventions are related to information storage and retrieval, as well as productivity, conversation, and even image generation. If any of those sound interesting, I can tell you more.

Fiance I'm not single, I'm not looking for a romantic connection. I'm looking to make strong and interesting connections with strong and interesting people

Zen Buddhist My spirituality is deeply important to me. I have invested a significant portion of the last 25 years to the pursuit and refinement of my spiritual experience. If you aren't familiar with Zen, the essential principle is the experience of reality. Each person's experience is unique, and yet enlightenment is achievable by all. This is but one of innumerable dualities that reveal the fundamental truths of the connectedness of all things. One of the other things that really resonates with me about Zen is the acknowledgment of the reality that experience transcends words, and that only by meditation and zazen (Just Sitting) can we reach the truth.

Game Designer and World Builder I love designing games, mechanisms, and systems. Thinking about and discussing systems and mechanisms and how they interact with each other is one of my favorite activities in the world.

About You

1. You are confident
2. You like yourself
3. You don't think you need to have all of these qualities
4. You read this whole post
5. You write to me with more than one sentence
6. You read
7. You love meta-narrative
8. You like Neo Classical Fusion Music

Contacting Me

Reddit chat is better for me than reddit messages, but if we get past a few sentences I would prefer to move to Discord.

In your message tell me:

1. Your age
2. Your time zone
3. Is your reddit representative of who you are?
4. What's your favorite wikipedia page? (I support wikipedia)