Get to know me

My goal is optimization. I want everything as efficient as possible, but I lean towards quality when I can afford it, in money or in time.

I often work on intuition. The answer just happens instantly, and then I can often reverse-reason how I got there. Sometimes I deduce wrong, so I check. Asking questions is always an option. Making assumptions and not checking them is just a skill issue.

On my PC, I change one thing at a time, measure it, and undo what isn’t worth it.

My way of talking changes from day to day. The only thing that doesn’t is me trying to stay factual.

I’m curious about a lot: biology, computers, philosophy, psychology, tinkering with stuff, engineering, learning completely new things. I could name more, but you get the point.

I’m a massive nerd, but only for the interesting stuff. I like talking about quantum physics. I used to be obsessed with space.

At the NASA Space Apps hackathon in 2024, my team picked a challenge about an ocean world whose life runs on chemosynthesis instead of sunlight. None of us had touched biochemistry. I talked the team into it anyway.

If you can’t argue for both sides of an argument, you don’t have a right to discuss it, because you don’t understand the other side’s position.

One claim I hold: our perception of reality does not, and never will, reflect reality as it truly is. I’m forever stuck in a reality of my own creation. Sometimes it works and makes sense, sometimes it doesn’t, and all I can do is adjust when it doesn’t.

Philosophy is one of my advanced subjects at school. In my first month of 10th grade, I handed in all four essays due for the year, then wrote two more. One argues that war is both a tragedy and an engine of progress; another, that nothingness is only a human idea. This school year I’m entered in the Polish Philosophy Olympiad. In college, I want to study philosophy and economics.

AI reignited my curiosity for the world, which had died out some years back. Now I can learn a dozen topics a day and get called out on my logical fallacies.

What makes me uneasy is its absolute compliance. I wish it said “I don’t think that’s a good choice” more often. My rule for it: if I’m wrong, point it out.

I’m interested in AI itself, but I can’t stand imagining something I made breaking people down.

I read more than I watch: about 10 hours a week, mostly progression fantasy, long webnovels where characters get stronger by rules the story sets. I also read manhwa and some paper books.

What I look for is a world that holds together, where other characters matter too. In Overgeared, one of my favorites, I loved how other characters steal the spotlight, and how overpowered abilities the main character missed out on go to others.

I rate craft and enjoyment separately. Delve is well written, and it bored me. Nucleus, the reading app I designed, keeps those two scores apart.

Aimlabs is an aim trainer, and I have over 1,600 hours in it. It’s a good way to de-stress and think about stuff. When it got a new interface, I posted a point-by-point review for its developers: what got better, what got slower.

I started Valorant in March 2025 and climbed from Bronze to Ascendant, mostly in solo queue. Early on, I gave myself a year to reach Radiant, the top rank. I like setting impossible goals. Well, impossible by other people’s standards.

Usually I have to make myself focus. At the gym it just is; it feels natural. I train two or three times a week, and I boulder with a friend. My hardest boulder so far is a V7.