░░░ welcome to the garden ░░░

the ~sidequest~ zone

not everything needs to be an essay. some things are just little flags i'm waving.

✦ now watering ✦ one piece theories ✦ mimetic desire ✦ carl jung's shadow ✦ the beam & the actor model ✦ irrigation cities ✦ what shines, burns. so watch out ✦ hand-embroidered css ✦ the black tubi pipeline ✦ clip embeddings & vibes  
✦ currently
  • on the desk

    The Undiscovered Self

    Carl Jung

    revisiting for a part three someday

  • on loop

    Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

    Kanehito Yamada

    an elf grieves across a thousand years im gonna cry

  • on my mind

    the web is a garden, not a marketplace

    Engelbart / Bush / Nelson

    augmenting intelligence and selling boxes

⌱ seedlings

ideas composting — not essays yet, just things i keep turning over.

  • 🌻

    Digital IP, Crypto, and the Human Factor

    ownership, privacy, and governance beyond ideological extremes. i'm four drafts deep though so pray for me

  • 🌱

    SATIRE: The Black Tubi Pipeline

    when is satire satire? signifyin', Quan Millz, and black media archetypes

  • 🌱

    The Commoditization of Health Data

    23andMe went bankrupt making your genome a liquid asset....

⌘ link roll

places that informed the way i think — click around, donate where you can, support the weird web.

✿ the shrine

people, works, and living things that have earned permanent rent in my head.

  • Eiichiro Oda

    "as long as people hunger for freedom, these things will exist."

  • Mishima — Temple of the Golden Pavilion

    can acts of destruction be virtuous? what shines, burns.

  • Carl Jung

    the undiscovered self. individuation against the mass!

  • for mom

    passive alerts for dialysis. safehemo is for you.

  • ☄︎

    Rocket League

    cars with rockets!

  • hibiscus + lavender

    angiosperms be real floral with it

▓▒░ under eternal construction ░▒▓

send me a flower or a rant → qwelian@tutanota.com (don't be wierd about it. unless i know you.)