About Me!
So who runs this website anyway?
My name's Volta. I'm a 20-something year old corporate professional trying to find my way, decide what I want to do when I grow up, and find meaning in an often seemingly pointless culture of consumption. I have a tendency to jump around from hobby to hobby and interest to interest, and yet, I often find myself coming back to the same circle of ideas and drawing many of the same conclusions. In my time spent learning and investigating, some of these ideas include:
- Stoic philosophy, logotherapy, Jungian psychology
- Eastern religion—principally Buddhism, but also Taoism and Confucianism
- Anthropology (my university degree) and sociology
- Wellness and lifestyle—diet, fitness, mental health, outdoorsmanship
- Tech, EDC, digital hygiene and online privacy
Why make a website?
A previous version of this page waxed on the confused nature of modern western culture in a crisis of meaning motivated by corporate consumerism and touted the creation of a Web 1.0 style website as a small way of going against the tide and getting back at the man. After about a year of working on this project (started July 2024) I feel like my opinions have become less strong, and my goals more concrete. This website is for me and for me alonea way of proving to myself that I am human; and whatever is common between the person who started this website a year ago and the person who is currently continuing to create it is the person that I call me—the ego. The reality of the ego (or of reality itself) aside, every conscious being needs something to anchor itself to reality. For many that is the human relationships they create (procreation and raising children being the paramount example of this), for others it is the community of faith that they find themselves in (for my part, I would consider myself a religious person yet to find a religion), and still for others it is the great things that they achieve (embodying the cultural hero, founding the great city). Each of us identifies ourselves with one or any of these, and by varying degrees with each. I still don't know where I stand; but if I continue diligently, I hope these answers will come in time.
So enjoy your stay here. I hope you learn something and hopefully I learn something as well.
Volta,
June 8, 2025
Reach me at my email:
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