About

I will split this into three sections: (1) my upbringing, background, and beliefs, (2) what I've done and am currently doing, (3) what I hope to do.
Please reach out if we match on (1) or (3).

Background

Kaiwen Wang, born in Helsinki, Finland, traces his formative influences to a variety of sources. He was educated at Edith C. Baker Elementary School in Brookline, Massachusetts and John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School in Augusta, Georgia for middle school and high school, after which he went to the Georgia Institute of Technology to initially study Mechanical Engineering, only later switching to Computer Science seeing it better suited his temperament. On his mother's side he is a native to Xuzhou City in northern Jiangsu Province and on his father's side to the countryside surrounding Linyi City in Shandong Province.

I grew up in the Old West, distinct from the modern mass media society. Here are some of the syntheses I have from its values:
  • He who does not work shall not eat.
  • Excellence is a moral imperative.
  • Fatalism and northern ways of being will triumph over romanticism and southern ways of being.
  • The values of community, leanring, and understanding are more important than that of money, which is only a tool for societal needs.
  • Trust is essential. This stems from one's speaking patterns: frequency and amplitude instability represent an emotionally consumptive attitude by adding content where there is none.
  • Prevarication, mimesis, and dissimulation are anathema to trust.
  • High openness, high restraint.
  • The modern world is degenerate and decaying. We can fix it.
  • The cognition of mankind stems from prenatal development and nutrition; one must understand the food system to control the future.
  • Race and sex possess great explanatory behavior for the nature of human beings.
  • The Minimum Standard shall hold over excess and greed.
  • Naturalism and respect for animals is essential.
  • Abstraction and object transformation is the highest human art.
In terms of what I have done: neither a lot nor a little. You can read about it in my blog. At present, I am sort of stuck in an in-between spot: able to hold my own at the higher levels but not of it, mainly due to family/monetary and health reasons at the moment, yet not resigning myself to the movies and games of those in the containment society. Nevertheless, I was able to accumulate a reasonable amount of scholarships and experiences to bring myself up to speed.
Currently, I have a variety of projects going on. First, my work is remote in software which gives me some regional flexibility. My experiences are here on this blog and I try to read a reasonable amount of books and articles. I also write the online magazine Eastern Frontier, aiming to be the leading edge of English-language Eastern thought. Moreover, I am constantly uphauling my digital systems for knowledge collection: Zotero for papers/books/websites, Eagle for pictures/videos, and a custom search/retrieval tool for taking down quick notes in Markdown. I believe I have come to certain truths regarding nutrition, society, and the natures of different peoples that I must wholly synthesize from the haphazard collection of thoughts on my blog. After that initial draft is completed and thought through, I will consider the bulk of what I have needed to do complete.
My goals wrt. life are to develop a time and location-independent source of income. The following tasks would represent a step-wise increase in general happiness: being able to solve my health issue, having a home base in a major connected city, not being stressed by the poor material conditions of my family (the carpet and car are currently quite problematic).
In the distant future, my main thoughts are around what forms of software best make sense in this new world where software acts as a coordinating base layer for society. Moreover, what the shift from agricultural to urbanized means for the superstructure form of society.