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<h1>emmaneugene:<span class="cursor">|</span></h1>
<h2>Software 💻 | Writing 📝 | DIY 🔧</h2>
<h3>Find me online:</h3>
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<li>
<a href="https://emmansjournal.substack.com/" target="_blank">Substack</a>
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<a href="https://github.com/emmaneugene/" target="_blank">Github</a>
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmaneugene/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>
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<h2>about me:<span class="cursor">|</span></h2>
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Hi! My name is Emmanuel. I've gone by many nicknames, but most people call me 'Emman'.
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I love solving problems, asking hard questions, and tinkering. I'm looking to use my skills to work in
high-impact roles tackling challenging engineering problems in an open, collaborative context.
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<p>
I am an <a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230408002619/https://bigthink.com/progress/pessimism-is-a-barrier-to-progress/">
impatient optimist</a>. I believe that creating a sustainable and equitable future is well within our means,
and I want to contribute to it in my lifetime. To this end, I strive to build expertise and confidence by
working with the brightest people in the field.
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<p>
Broadly, my interests lie in building software systems that are robust, scalable, secure and performant. I'm
actively pursuing roles that allow me to strengthen these skillsets. I'm a big fan of <a
href="https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public">learning in public</a>. Education, advocacy and community
engagement are vitally important to me, and I share my knowledge through teaching, volunteering and writing
where possible.
</p>
<p>
Some of my interests and hobbies include strength training, nutrition and health science, <a
href="https://www.instagram.com/londo_bells/?hl=en">model kits</a>, DIY, anime, film, jazz, and writing.
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<h2>now:<span class="cursor">|</span></h2>
<p>
A brief <a href="https://nownownow.com/about">summary</a> of what's
going for me at the moment:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
- Starting a new role as a backend engineer at Shopee. Excited to finally work on large-scale, performance
critical production systems.
</li>
<br />
<li>
- Finally done with the 12-week hackathon + accelerator program under <a
href="https://www.build.gov.sg/bfg-environment/">Build for Good</a>. I'll have some writeups and reflections
on that whole journey coming soon.
</li>
<br />
<li>
- After what has felt like a really hectic start to adulting, I'm feeling pretty satisfied with the work I've
put in and the progress I've made. Taking a bit of a breather for now, but I'll have more things to share in
due time.
</li>
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<p>This page was last updated on: <strong>22-08-2024</strong></p>
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<h2>work:<span class="cursor">|</span></h2>
<p>
Inspired by Den Delimarsky's '<a href="https://den.dev/how-i-work">How I work</a>':
</p>
<ul>
<li>
- I'm a big proponent of prototyping and validating ideas as soon as possible, for which software is uniquely
suited as the <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.279.5353.992">third culture</a>.
</li>
<br />
<li>
- If it wasn't obvious by now, I'm heavy on documentation and writing. It's always a struggle to keep
knowledge up-to-date when things are moving quickly, but I've yet to see a project succeed with poor
documentation.
</li>
<br />
<li>
- I strive to keep responses to 2 working days, and I'll give a heads-up otherwise.
</li>
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<li>
- Ask me questions! Give me feedback! As a rule of thumb, I believe every single decision is open to
criticism.
</li>
</ul>
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<h2>quotes:<span class="cursor">|</span></h2>
<p>
As clichéd as they may seem, I think <a href="http://quotes.cat-v.org/">quotes</a> serve as valuable reminders
in daily life. Here are some of my personal favorites (and a small selection of poem snippets):
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<i>"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Muhammad Ali</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"What weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance
requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Carlos Castaneda</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of
being."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake
of reward, nor should you long for inaction."</i>
<br />
- <strong>The Bhagavad Gita (2:47)</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"The mind in itself has no needs, except for those it creates itself. Is undisturbed, except for its own
disturbances. Knows no obstructions, except those from within."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Marcus Aurelius</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Ralph Waldo Emerson</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it,
immediately or in the long run."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Henry David Thoreau</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Epictetus</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Jiddu Krishnamurti</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without
thinking of them."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Alfred North Whitehead</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Marcus Aurelius</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"All cruelty stems from weakness."</i> <br />
- <strong>Seneca</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Henry David Thoreau</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."</i>
<br />
- <strong>J.M. Barrie</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a
force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the
world will not devote itself to making you happy."</i>
<br />
- <strong>George Bernard Shaw</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, not the battle to the strong,
neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill, but
time and chance happeneth to them all."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Ecclesiastes 9:11 (KJV)</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings,
without milestones, without signposts."</i>
<br />
- <strong>C.S. Lewis</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and
whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be
redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes
something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely
you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't
be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Mary Oliver</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"Beautiful things don't ask for attention."</i> <br />
- <strong>The Secret Life of Walter Mitty</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science
crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have
been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected
in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books
are humanity in print."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Barbara Tuchman</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone
gets busy on the proof."</i>
<br />
- <strong>John Kenneth Galbraith</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"That's all any of us are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Charlie Chaplin</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"I bargained with Life for a penny, <br />and Life would pay no more, <br />However I begged at evening
<br />When I counted my scanty store; <br /> <br />Life is a just employer. <br />He gives you what you ask,
<br />But once you have set the wages, <br />Why, you must bear the task. <br /> <br />I worked for a
menial's hire, <br />Only to learn, dismayed, <br />That any wage I had asked of Life <br />Life would have
willingly paid."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Jessie B. Rittenhouse</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"There is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average <br />Human being to supply any given
army on any given day <br />And the best at murder are those who preach against it <br />And the best at
hate are those who preach love <br />And the best at war finally are those who preach peace"</i>
<br />
- <strong>Charles Bukowski: The Genius Of The Crowd</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any
religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth,
being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any
organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Jiddu Krishnamurti</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those
are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life
and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Oswald Chambers</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Greek Proverb</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are
never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never
see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater
poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by
our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and
I, in our ordinariness, that are here."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Richard Dawkins</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"Hey, it's our basic human right to be fuck ups. This civilisation is founded on fuck ups. And you know
what? That makes me proud."</i>
<br />
- <strong>The World's End (2013)</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"A day so happy. <br />Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden. <br />Hummingbirds were stopping over
honeysuckle flowers. <br />There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. <br />I knew no one worth my
envying him. <br />Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot. <br />To think that once I was the same man did
not embarrass me. <br />In my body I felt no pain. <br />When straightening up, I saw the blue sea and
sails."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Czesław Miłosz: Gift</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know"</i>
<br />
- <strong>Michel de Montaigne</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"I am an old man now and have come to the summit of my years. But in my heart is the joy of youth for I
have learned that the essentials of life are near at hand and happiness is his who but opens his eyes to the
beauty which lies before him."</i>
<br />
- <strong>John Burroughs</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is
what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a
scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a
mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the
wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Annie Dillard</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough
to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Rainer Maria Rilke</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic
void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt
us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the
past."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Milan Kundera</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be
engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical
pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools
always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is
short."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Arthur Schopenhauer</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"Since I met you, I feel like I can see the operating system of the world - and it is unrequited love. That
is why everyone's doing everything. Every book, opera house, moon shot and manifesto is here because
someone, somewhere, lit up silent when someone else came into the room and then quietly burned when they
didn't notice them. On the foundation of the billion kisses we never had, I built you this opera house,
baby. I shot the president because I didn't know what to say to you. I hoped you'd notice. I hoped you'd
notice me. We turn our unsaid things into our life's work."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Caitlin Moran: How to build a girl</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made
me."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Ralph Waldo Emerson</strong>
</li>
<br />
<li>
<i>"One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right
away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it,
give it all, now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now.
Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like
well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is
destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find
ashes."</i>
<br />
- <strong>Annie Dillard: Write Till You Drop</strong>
</li>
</ul>
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<p>
A little contrived, but here are some of the
<a href="https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history">cool sites</a>
I've come across:
</p>
<p>
P.S.: Trying to organize this better and make it easier to update -
thinking of linking to a live notion page
</p>
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<h3>Developer blogs</h3>
<a href="https://andymatuschak.org/">Andy Matuschak</a>
<br />
<a href="https://www.anildash.com/">Anil Dash</a>
<br />
<a href="https://aplaceofmind.notion.site/aplaceofmind/Behnam-Mohammadi-6104801661e0448998b58569b25d1d2e">Behnam
Mohammadi</a>
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<a href="https://benkuhn.net">Ben Kuhn</a>
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<a href="https://www.brendangregg.com/">Brendan Gregg</a>
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<a href="https://cerebralab.com">Cerebra Lab</a>
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<a href="https://colah.github.io">Chris Olah</a>
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<a href="https://mcfunley.com/">Dan McKinley</a>
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<a href="https://den.dev">Den Delimarsky</a>
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<a href="https://sive.rs">Derek Sivers</a>
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<a href="https://www.ericholscher.com">Eric Holscher</a>
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<a href="https://bellard.org/">Fabrice Bellard</a>
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<a href="https://borretti.me/article">Fernando Borretti</a>
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<a href="https://jakearchibald.com/">Jake Archibald</a>
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<a href="https://jakob.space/">Jakob.Space</a>
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<a href="https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/home.php">John Ousterhout</a>
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<a href="https://jvns.ca/">Julia Evans</a>
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<a href="https://jmmv.dev/">Julio Merino</a>
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<a href="https://righto.com/">Ken Shirriff</a>
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<a href="https://www.lihaoyi.com/">Li Haoyi</a>
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<a href="https://lukesmith.xyz">Luke Smith</a>
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<a href="https://maggieappleton.com">Maggie Appleton</a>
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<a href="https://www.marginalia.nu">Marginalia</a>
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<a href="https://martin.kleppmann.com">Martin Kleppman</a>
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<a href="https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/index">Miguel Grinberg</a>
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<a href="https://patrickcollison.com">Patrick Collison</a>
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<a href="paulgraham.com">Paul Graham</a>
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<a href="https://pkolaczk.github.io/">Piotr Kołaczkowski</a>
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<a href="http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.ohearn/">Peter O'Hearn</a>
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<a href="https://www.swyx.io">Shawn Wang</a>
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<a href="https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/">Simon Tatham</a>
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<h3>Tech blogs</h3>
<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/">Amazon Builder's Library</a>
<br />
<a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com">Cloudflare blog</a>
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<a href="https://github.blog/category/engineering/">Github Engineering blog</a>
<br />
<a href="https://blog.janestreet.com/">Jane Street Tech blog</a>
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<a href="https://netflixtechblog.com/">Netflix Tech blog</a>
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<a href="https://web3isgoinggreat.com/">Web3 is going great</a>
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<a href="https://www.writethedocs.org/">Write The Docs</a>
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<a href="https://37signals.com/thoughts/">37 Signals</a>
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<h3>Newsletters, magazines and writing</h3>
<strong>META:</strong>
<a href="https://emmansjournal.substack.com/recommendations">My Substack recommendations</a>
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<a href="https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/">A Working Library</a>
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<a href="https://collabfund.com/blog/">Collab Blog</a>
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<a href="https://every.to">Every</a>
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<a href="https://fs.blog">Farnam Street</a>
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<a href="https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1">James Clear's 3-2-1</a>
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<a href="https://www.kernelmag.io">Kernel Magazine</a>
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<a href="https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com">Low-Tech Magazine</a>
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<a href="https://moretothat.com">More to That</a>
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<a href="https://www.newthingsunderthesun.com">New Things Under the Sun</a>
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<a href="https://www.noemamag.com">NOEMA</a>
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<a href="https://palladiummag.com">Palladium</a>
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<a href="https://perell.com/">David Perell</a>
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<a href="https://pluralistic.net/">Pluralistic</a>
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<a href="https://restofworld.org">Rest of World</a>
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<a href="https://www.themarginalian.org">The Marginalian</a>
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<a href="https://waitbutwhy.com">Wait but Why</a>
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<a href="https://www.worksinprogress.co">Works in Progress</a>
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<h3>Regular sites</h3>
<a href="https://www.cdp.net">CDP - Carbon Disclosure Project</a>
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<a href="https://climate-science.com">Climate Science</a>
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<a href="https://examine.com">Examine</a>
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<a href="https://www.gapminder.org">Gapminder</a>
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<a href="https://ourworldindata.org">Our World in Data</a>
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<a href="https://resourcewatch.org">Resource Watch</a>
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<a href="https://www.scanofthemonth.com/">Scan of the Month</a>
<br />
<a href="https://www.strongerbyscience.com">Stronger By Science</a>
<br />
<a href="https://www.zenpencils.com">Zen Pencils</a>
<br />
<a href="https://80000hours.org">80000 hours</a>
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<h2>topics:<span class="cursor">|</span></h2>
<p>Some of broad-themed questions and problems I like to mull over:</p>
<p>
<strong>Repair culture</strong>: Technology is great, but the one thing nobody talks about is what happens when
it stops working. Modern appliances have incredibly short shelf lives and are often designed to be <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence">replaced</a>, with disastrous consequences for the
environment. I'm interested in any and all efforts to make DIY and repair more accessible.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Public health</strong>: Implementing policies that target low-hanging fruit and make the most impact for
community-level health outcomes - I believe there's a lot of missed value in quantifying the impact of
environmental influences like noise and <a href="https://patrickcollison.com/pollution">air pollution</a>,
expanding green spaces (see: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqJJktxCY9U">solarpunk</a>), and
improving nutrition and sleep as pre-emptive health interventions.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Robotics</strong>: Software on its own is complex, but we've barely scratched the surface of making
software that interacts with the physical world. We're probably a long way away, but I believe that <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomimetics">nature-inspired</a> robots will be crucial for us to flourish
in a changing world, and it's a space that I'm very excited about.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Energy</strong>: Energy powers everything that we do, and our biggest challenge is to provide clean,
reliable sources to meet humanity's needs as soon as possible. Renewables like solar and wind are in many cases
already cheaper than fossil fuels, but we desperately need innovation in many more areas to get to a future
where energy is abundant and carbon-neutral.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Mental health</strong>: Interest in mental health is growing, spurred by anxieties about the future, new
digital platforms, the breakneck pace of modern life, and the erosion of traditional communities and civic
bonds. How do we help people thrive in their environments? How can we design policies, institutions and systems
to be more humane? There are no easy answers, but if there's anything I know for sure, it's that change can only
begin once we're able to have these conversations openly.
</p>
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<p>
If anything I've shared interests you, feel free to contact me through the following handles (please introduce
yourself if I haven't met you yet).
</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Email:</strong> emmaneugene[at]gmail.com</li>
<li><strong>Telegram:</strong> [at]emmaneugene</li>
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