I have no social media presence outside of a token LinkedIn account and this website. The debate continues over whether social media use has overall positive, negative, or negligible effects on various mental health aspects, but this page exists to help address one problem created by my choice: a lack of a public story.
With the sheer volume of public information that people provide on social media, we’ve come to expect that we can roughly understand someone’s story without having met them. For most people, this isn’t a bad assumption; you can track someone’s life, work, and interests through their posts, pictures, likes, follows, so on and so forth. But what I worry about is that people will still form that type of opinion on me on the very limited information that I put out there, which probably reads something like:
- Went to school for robotics.
- Kept going to school for robotics, focusing on social robots.
Presumably, I would want to work on social robots, and a very short reading of the rest of my life might go something like:
- Worked on various human-robot interfaces and social robots.
- Retired at 65.
- Died from overwork in robot-human studies after the robot takeover in 2062.
Anyways, these posts are to help fill in the blanks and hopefully keep that list out of my eventual obituary. Since these are my thoughts, none of the writing of these posts will be AI-generated. Any other inclusions (e.g. images) that are will be noted as such. Thanks, and enjoy.