About Josias

I'm a mutualist who is constantly learning about the surrounding world. I realize my flaws and seek to understand and help others in spite of them. I can't know anything objectively, but I can work to improve the lives of myself and those around me.

Interests

I'm interested in computers, gardening, literature, political theory, writing, and so much more.

I started writing at eight. I would write out all the fantastic stories I had developed while playing, intending on sharing them with the world. My imagination was excellent. My writing? Not so much. I still write. My imagination isn't nearly as free as it once was, but my writing has gotten better.

I started programming when I was 11. I started with making my own websites with HTML and slowly made my way through Scratch, Python, JavaScript, and C++ until mostly settling on C and Rust. I have a working knowledge of all of those, in addition to Zig, Go, and some Haskell.

Political theory has fascinated me especially in the last several years. I've been studying 19th century socialists in particular, including Marx, Kropotkin, and Proudhon.

Recently I discovered the beauty of Shakespeare's works and have been obsessively reading his various plays.

Philosophy

My life is interconnected with the world around me, from humans to animals and even the trees and the grass and the soil. We are not fundamentally separate, and depend on each other on some level. Such is the nature of ecosystems. I seek to make those relationships as healthy and uplifting as possible, for all parties.

That means I seek to help others rather than harm them, continuing cycles of reciprocity. This expresses itself in different ways in different situations. I'm not entirely consistent, but it affects the way I tell stories, craft poems, write gemlogs, study history, build software, and converse with others.

All life is special, not just humans. We are not better nor worse than our surrounding environment. I believe we should live that way.