About Me

A place where I write about my perspective on myself. Still a major WIP!

Basic information

Name's Priyanshu. I go by multiple aliases, including "priy".

• Some of the values I stand for include freedom, non-oppression, inclusivity, equitable-prosperity, etc.

• I am a fan of innovation, outward-impact, and driving progress.

  • And those are things I aspire to be involved in while being responsible and ethical

• I have an ever-diversifying range of interests.¹

  • And I love taking on new challenges whenever I can!

• I am someone to question the status-quo, and I don't blindly concede to the conventionally preferred, popular, or familiar.

• I value creative expression and imagination - as much as objectivity, rational thinking, and openness to perspectives.

Education and Professional Life

I am an Autodidact. I dropped out of high school in pursuance of self-education, in 2020. While I am not established professionally yet, I have been doing freelance ML engineering for a few months now.

My journey of self-education hasn't yet been the most ideal. It's been unstructured, chaotic, neglectful. And very driven by flow of curiosities, rather than rigorous planning and disciplined execution.

I have entrepreneurial aspirations that I have forever been putting off from full realization. There are ethical and performance standards I intend to meet, and shall expand upon with time. But in brief, I want to set examples of breakthrough innovation and progress, while keeping factors more important than profitability at higher precedence.

I aspire to challenge the perceptions of boundaries around possible levels of transparency, inclusivity, value-prioritization, large-scale collaboration, etc.

Some of my Areas of Interest

Exhaustive by no means!

• All of The Sciences! And the scientific method
• Philosophy (although not with a rigorous, historical approach!)
• Thinking and analysis
• Muddling with random concepts, ideas, and thoughts - both self-introspectively and conversationally
• Altruism, outward-impact, value-creation
• Epistemology and Ontology (again, primarily not in the academically "correct" way)
• Music (Open to everything, please don't hesitate to send recommendations!)
• Sports such as cricket and chess
• Breaking through shackles, exploring new horizons, etc
• Tinkering, building, creation
• Reading, listening to podcasts, and consuming information in general in diverse forms and contexts
• Frontier tech, from AI to BCIs, digital fabrication to biotech - the list really has no end²

You could find some narrow mentions of my present involvements in the "now" page

Misc

Words that describe me:

• Multipotentiate
• Generalist
• Neurodivergent
• Avid-learner
• Spontaneous
• Explorer
• Never-settling
• Insatiable

Random facts about me:

• I communicate the most fluently on a textual medium. It's where I find myself able to express the fullest and freest.

• I pick and drop interests and hobbies very frequently. I like to say that my interest-space is append-only, and it is indeed so, in approximation. Although there really isn't any certainty about if (and when) I may ever go back, with the same level of enthusiasm, to something I at some point of time have been hyped-up about.

• Challenging limiting-beliefs and stigmas is a frequent hobby for me.

• I am a FOSS enthusiast, and while in general I like to avoid biases, I am very biased towards FOSS ecosystems.

  • Same for privacy! I think of it as a vital need.

Some prominent quirks:

• Social-awkwardness
• Many ADHD-stemming traits, including executive function hardships, emotional dysregulations, impulsivity, etc
• Dearth of any major achievements, majorly owing to my tendency to not stick to things
• Struggles with anything involving commitment
• Inclination towards staying vague - clearly at expression, but also while thinking, planning, etc. It brings along its own share of troubles
• Tendency to form unnecessarily convoluted works and expression

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