I enjoy dance, martial arts, meditation, tinkering, [poetry](Poems), [[divination]], & free association. Enneagram 5w4. I live in Oakland. Pheromone trails: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/levity), [Github](https://github.com/levity), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawrencewang/). Email: `l at this domain` # Professionally As a polyglot full-stack software engineer, I've worked professionally with Javascript, Python, Solidity, Ruby, Objective-C, & Java. Clojure's not on that list yet. One day... As a de-facto product manager in small startups, I've seen the rise and fall of "agile", feel industry norms straining across the boomer-zoomer gap, and am thankful for the perennial re-emergence of hard-won common sense in books like [Shape Up](https://basecamp.com/shapeup). I've always been interested in the intersection of psychology and technology: the ways our physical and virtual environments manipulate our thoughts & feelings, influence our identity and worldview, and shape our sense of what is important and what is real. Some current & past projects: - [[Thyself.ai]]: An AI practice partner for emotional work. - [Coordinape](https://coordinape.com): What if the future of work is already here? ([open source](https://github.com/coordinape)) - [Hylo](https://hylo.com): The community platform for people on a mission. ([open source](https://github.com/Hylozoic)) Also: [MakerDAO](https://makerdao.com/), [Soma Water](https://www.drinksoma.com/), [Lumosity](http://www.lumosity.com/), [SkillSlate](http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/09/taskrabbit-acquires-service-provider-directory-skillslate/), [Panther Express CDN](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/panther-express). # This site This site, powered by Obsidian, is the latest iteration of my obsession with tools for thinking. I have been collecting notes and writing journal entries for many years in Workflowy, Evernote, Roam, Logseq, and paper journals, and sharing very little of it with other people. I've come to see that my growth edge here is not in tinkering with new tools, but in making my thinking more visible to others, so that it can evolve with their feedback. It's the "Get out of the building" principle from product research, applied to my personal material. That said, I'm still interested in experimenting with building new ways of seeing and working with texts here, especially ways of engaging others directly in playful ways. [[LLM in the loop]]