About Me

High School (my high school is now closed but it was a pretty decent school though.), B.Sc. Mathematics (University of Ottawa), M.Sc. Mathematics (McGill University), PhD Mathematics (McGill University). However, I somewhat regret having to spend so much time in school. Some was good but a lot was just overspecialization in an attempt to make me a good cog.

Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Melbourne (one of the only larger cities that I actually liked), São Paulo (huge!), Strasbourg, San Jose, Darwin, Cairns, Itamonte, Paraty, Prague, Newark (a little scary), Cincinnati, Athens (Georgia, not the one in Greece). Most of these were not vacations though but job-related.

The Metaphysics of Technology by David Skrbina. It pretty much says it all, and yet no one’s talking about it. And An Introduction to Homological Algebra by Charles Weibel is my favourite math book.

Quiet spaces, wildlife photography, Bach, birds, forests, wild nature, owls, parrots, writing down my thoughts, making videos, food, classical music, Glenn Gould’s Bach, Brahms

Civilization, domesticated dogs, large cities, corporations (especially but not limited to tech corporations), smartphones, cheap junk that is designed to be thrown away and replaced (e.g. most of the junk on Amazon), AI, noisy people, consumerism. Yes, I think the world is more messed up than it’s ever been.

I’m mostly retired. Sort of. I actually do what’s usually called “content creation” of various sorts. I used to work in academia and also as a researcher out of academia but I didn’t like it at all. In fact, the less “real job” I do, the better.

Quitting my 9-5 job, getting a refund of a non-refundable ticket from United Airlines, obtaining my driver’s license in Brazil, getting my PhD, getting a few thousand subscribers on YouTube, becoming decent at photography, and learning to speak a second language around the A2 level

Build up enough passive income so that I don’t have to work much except on passion projects, be very far away from civilization, become fluent in Brazilian Portuguese, get 100K subscribers on YouTube. (Note, you might be wondering how this goal fits in with my anti-tech writings. I’ll just say that you’ve got to make a living somehow.)