Government funded Social Media

August 9, 2021

Like a beefier Twitter, Plaza would bring public spaces online.

Government funded Universities

August 9, 2021

There are too many PhD student and not enough professor positions. This creates a poor ‘academic paper’ environment. These people, I assume, want to do research more than teach, but I need good teachers and they want to do research. I would have them teach at all level, even if they are researching high level topics.

Asymptote Framework

February 9, 2021

Nothing in life is 100%, 1, or perfectly full. This can be proven in a quantum mechanical standpoint or through the semantics of classification. The idea of approaching the asymptote fills this gap and allows us to proceed normally with our life.

Some people would say that there is no such thing as a Utopia, these people would be right. So is there no point of attempting to get there if the end goal is impossible to achieve? Using the framework of the asymptote, there is a path, maybe not so clear, to approach this goal of a great society.

Bill Text Length vs. Time to Vote

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Follow Your Dreams

Choose the path that you want to take. Fuck your formal education, what others tell you to do, or what your parents want you to do. This is your own life that you are living right now, and you only have one of it; so do what you want.

Strong words that often fail to float in the reality. The truth of the world, at the moment, is that optimizing for happiness or passion does not always lead to your best life. You cannot feed yourself or your children off your passion or happiness, that is left for the extremely lucky individuals who obtain both the skill and the luck to flip a coin for heads fifty times in a row. But sometimes life is not about living optimally for the exact environment you are in. How else would have our fish ancestors transitioned from sea to land?

The Process of Voting

With post-processing vote (less voter registration and more processing once votes are in), the official have more power to decide whether a vote is valid or not, giving a bigger threat than if it is harder for people to register in the first place.

The Science of Government

Or as John Adams says, the “Divine Science of Politicks.”

Before anything, I want to first lay down some common definitions so we get a similar sense of what we are dealing with here. To communicate effectively, we must have a strong basis to build upon.

government (noun): the body of persons that contribute the governing authority of a political unit or organization

governing (verb): to exercise continuous sovereign authority over

Why Be an Engineer?

Often when I meet new people, both my major(s) and my future employment come up. I am always honest with them; I am an engineering physics and computer science double major, and I want to go into politics. This will often leave them in confusion, either asking how I want to connect my engineering degrees to politics or asking why I am majoring in two engineering disciplines.

When people ask the former, they try and connect my engineering knowledge to specific technical policy decision: whether to invest in this type of energy source, technical choices of internet restrictions and rules. But I want my contribution to be more broad than that.

Why Humans Collect

The objective biology of it

We want to live to reproduce

But why would anyone want to live in pain?

What does better mean?

We collect to make everyone’s lives better

If you have ever received coaching or tips when generating a start-up, one common action is creating a mission statement. On the surface, mission statements seem to be an advertisement or public relation trick to boost the reputation of your company, and it some cases this maybe true. Your CTO may just want to focus on research and development and have nothing to do with this image that our mission statement portrays. But the reason start-ups need to create a mission statement with detail and thought as early as is accessible to them is the same reason why navigators use the North Star when taking upon a treacherous journey, for guidance and grounding. You need a strong goal to guide your decision making.