About

<aside> 😁 I aspire to learn, create, and experience everything. That’s hard. I will inevitably fail. I’m using this site to document my efforts.

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Table of Contents

Creating | Contemplating | Consuming | Experiments

Creating

<aside> 💡 These are a handful of projects, both big and small, that I have worked on or am currently working on. Somedays, which takes its name from Beeple's Everydays, was an effort to make a bunch of shit while I was interviewing for PM roles.

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<aside> ✉️ ktesherick@gmail.com

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Projects

Contemplating

<aside> 🧠 These are some things that are on my mind at the moment.

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Questions

• One way to understand a psychological state is to understand what it compels us to do. What does beauty compel us to do and what does this tell us about its nature?
• Evolutionarily speaking, we aren't adapted to change at the rate at which society is now doing so due to rapid technological innovation. Do we need to slow society down? Do we need to find a way to keep up? Either way, how?
• What exactly is happening in [dissociative identity disorder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder#:~:text=Dissociative identity disorder (DID)%2C,be explained by ordinary forgetfulness.)?
• How can we do cultural commentary better? What is it for and how can we develop structured methodologies around it that enforce predictive validity?
• Is the circle of moral concern expanding along the temporal axis? That is, are we growing in empathy for those who are temporally distant (i.e. past and future people) from us in the same way we are for those relationally and physically distant from us?
• Globalization and the internet enable us to interact with and impact others without vividly recognizing them as real people. When people are dehumanized like this, we treat them in inhumane ways. We can't put the genie back in the bottle—Luddism and tribalism seem untenable. How, then, do we create solutions to build a more local world, where the impact of our actions on others through the global economy and the internet is visceral in the same way that it is in face-to-face interactions?
• Why are we so put off by the idea of wireheading?
• How might we create an alternative to academia for producing scientific research?
• Can all of our values be reduced to a foundational one? If not, how do we choose between values? The idea of choosing presupposes a decision criterion—in other words, a value—by which we negotiate among these alternatives, so seemingly there would be some foundational value, at least on an individual basis.
• Who is an American? What is a nation? What should a nation be?
• What are the downstream consequences of the pandemic (e.g. remote work and increased investment in medicine)?
• What can a personal website be? How can we innovate on this medium?

Thoughts

• The supernatural is just the natural that we don’t yet understand. The random is just the causal that we can't yet model.