Hi, Dan here!

About me

I’ve got a love for examining phenomena from uncommon perspectives, cross-linking patterns, and a deep fascination for things ’bottom-up’.

Professionally, I’m best described as a generalist designer and entrepreneur. Before co-founding a footwear brand and re-thinking shoes from the ground up, I specialized in brand design, UX/UI design, followed by conversion rate optimization – this area intrigued me due to its empirical methods of analyzing human decision-making and the measurable impact of design on persuasion. Before that, I pursued a military career, where I made it to the rank of staff seargent in the military police; I was younger and much more stupid back then, but it also means I learned a lot from that experience.

Considering myself by what I actually do most of the time, I’m nowadays much more an “amateur” (in the original meaning of the word) rather than a “professional”. That’s liberating for once; but more importantly, it makes life meaningful.

The range of my interests is a bit all over the place:

• Metaphysics and Ontology
  
• Computation and artificial life (not to confuse with “AI”)
  
• Programming languages and paradigms, particularly Lisp
  
• Emacs (check out my starterkit and Emacs themes on Github)
  
• Longboarding and old-school skateboarding
  
• Muay Thai training, philosophy and theory
  
• Korean traditional archery
  

I care about:

• Animal welfare and animal rights
  
• Preserving, restoring and improving the natural environment
  
• Migitating anthropocentrism
  
• Open source and free software
  

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CREDITS:
Static site generator: Emacs with Org-mode
CSS frameworks: normalize.css and sakura