About

I'm Roane

I'm a software engineer and investor. In my younger (more egocentric) days I considered myself a budding polymath, but now I realize I'm just a man of many hobbies.

What I'm writing about

I'm interested in AI, software, public goods and investing, and I plan to write about all of the above.

And why I'm writing

I've been writing privately for 5+ years, and this blog is meant to challenge me to exercise this muscle publicly. I hope that writing in public helps me to become more succinct and clear, and I hope to meet some interesting people along the way. Please get in touch on x.

Gwern's thoughts on why you should write (here) and (here) are a core inspiration for this blog.

And this quote was a core impetus to get me moving, because I certainly don't want to be a passive zombie:

For the masses of men do not create their own ideas, or indeed think through these ideas independently; they follow passively the ideas adopted and disseminated by the body of intellectuals.

-- Murray Rothbard, Anatomy of the State