Hi! I’m @ftlsid. I’m a scientist-adventurer-writer in search of fun and freedom. I quit my full-time engineering job in April of 2022. Since then, I’ve been traveling, creating, and figuring out what it means to live well.
I also write on substack at cybermonk. If you’d like to support me, buy me a coffee!
# Best of @ftlsid
- Insulation - on opening yourself to the world
- Reflections one year after leaving my job
- The inner world - on my relationship with fantasy
- Reflections on independent research
# Escaping full-time work
- Quitting your full-time job
- left my job last week…
- How do you make money without a job?
- Reflections on turning 24
- Excuses - on money-making schemes
- Intentionally, nothing - how I spend my time
# Being
How should one act?
- North - on honor
- Insulation - on opening yourself to the world
- Why would I? - why I don’t have the same goals as most people
- “Unhinged”
- On being
- Book recommendations
Immersion in fantasy as a child really affected my perception of reality.
Some tweets that I find meaningful:
# Strategy
I have a tendency to analyze the world like a machine. The following pages are slices of that mindset.
- Invert the applicant mindset
- Never public markets
- Making money
- Become the broker
- Against fairness
- Let yourself speciate
- Avoid linear actions
# Japan
I have an ongoing love affair with Japan; I grew up watching anime, I speak Japanese fluently, and I’ve traveled all over Japan several times.
- Learning Japanese
- Japan again
- Japan adventure log
- Those words - on studying a foreign language
- pieces of mind - snippets from Japan
- Sushi - on authenticity, effort
- Reflections on traveling
# Sci/tech
I’ve been building electronics and writing software since I was very young. I’m also an independent researcher, and I’ve studied male pattern baldness and artificial life extensively. One of my long-running goals is to understand the computational basis for evolution.
- How I got interested in tech
- Reflections on independent research
- Summary of my artificial life research
- why I want to visit New Caledonia
- Why do many men go bald? (work in progress)
- Avoiding baldness (practical tips)
- some plant pics
- fossils!
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