/ideas
Updated 1 week, 5 days ago
This page outlines the ideas I am aiming to work on in the future. See what I'm doing now and about how I got here.
If any ideas standout as interesting to you, contact me, and let's talk or collaborate :)
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How can fiction be used to convey ideas?
In short, I recently came to understand the power of fiction as a tool for conveying ideas that must be lived, not just explained (I wrote a blog post on this topic).
As a result, I am writing short, fictional stories of my own that try to convey powerful ideas. Read them here.
How can satellite data help smallholder farmers?
This all started with a dive down a rabbit hole about how I can use the skills I have in web dev, data science, and cloud computing to contribute to meaningful problems. I even went as far as creating my own masters degree of sorts.
As it turns out, there is this field called "Earth Observation" which leverages often publicly available satellite data to create impactful products. This is the world I am trying to live in. In particular, I want to challenge myself to see if it is possible to provide meaningful data to smallholder farmers using even the most basic insights that can be gleaned from satellite data.
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The internet is an amazing technology. It has the power to connect humans from every corner of the Earth. How absurd is this?
I want the internet to serve as a place I go to connect and exchange ideas with likeminded humans.
Unfortunately, if we aren't careful, the internet can be a bottomless pit of entertainment (see related) or an unhealthy competition for attention in the form of followers, views, and likes (see related).
To address this, I'm beginning to dive into the indie web. My understanding of this new world is still rudimentary, but the premise seems to be: own your platform and connect on your own terms.