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ACTIVITIES
/03PHYSICAL PRACTICE
SPORT
None of this is professional — it's the physical stuff I've picked up along the way and kept around in some form.
I trained Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu formally for a short stretch and still roll with friends now and then. Archery goes back further, to middle school. Conditioning is the daily baseline that keeps everything else moving.
Trained formally for about a month and a half. These days I mostly roll casually with friends when it comes up.
Earned a certificate and competed in a few tournaments back in middle school.
Strength and endurance work that supports everything else. Consistency over intensity. The goal is showing up tomorrow.
THE STUDIO
OIL
PAINTING
I've been painting with oils since I was a teenager. There's something about a medium that dries slowly and demands commitment — you can't undo a stroke, you can only paint over it, and you carry every previous decision forward.
Most of my work starts without a clear plan. I mix a color that feels right, make a mark, and respond to it. The discipline is in resisting the urge to over-explain — in painting, too much intention usually kills the thing you were trying to make.
I work across oil, acrylic, charcoal, and mixed media. The gallery below is the work that made it past my own editing.
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CURIOSITY & STRATEGY
CHESS
& BOOKS
CHESS
1700 ELO — RAPID
I've been playing chess seriously for a few years. At 1700 I'm comfortable with most tactical patterns — the gap now is not calculation, it's judgment about when to exchange pieces and when to keep the tension.
I study endgames more than openings. Openings are memorized — endgames are understood. That distinction matters.
CURRENTLY READING / HAVE READ
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man who convinces himself his own logic is airtight, then watches it collapse under the weight of what he can't reason away. The most honest book about arrogance I've read.
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Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Useful for putting everything in context. The agricultural revolution as the greatest con in human history is a framing I think about more than I expected when I first read it.
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The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Still astonishing that one person observed this much and made it cohere. The argument builds so carefully that by the time you reach the conclusion, it already feels inevitable.
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TRAVELS
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