Welcome
I’m Christian. This is my digital garden; a collection of notes, half-formed ideas, and occasional essays.
By day, I’m a CPA and Senior Financial Analyst. By temperament, I’m an intellectual tinkerer. That probably sounds more pretentious than I mean it to be, but I’m not sure there’s a better word for it. I get absorbed in book rabbit holes, creative projects, and I write to figure out what I think.
Most of what’s here is incomplete. Fragments about learning, history, technology and philosophy. Some pieces mature into something coherent. Most stay messy. Many have spelling errors. I’m more interested in exploration than polish.
About This Garden
Essays are organized by maturity, rather than chronology or topic. I’m currently re-reading The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk, and I’ve taken inspiration from those 19th-century explorers who risked their lives to dutifully chart and map ‘the great unknown’.
TerraIncognita - Raw notes and observations. Potentially wrong. Don’t take these too seriously.
Surveyed - Ideas starting to come together. Still developing.
Gazetteer - Rare, fully-formed thoughts. Though, I always reserve the right to change my mind.