There’s a lot coming at us these days. AI is flooding the internet with content and fundamentally rewiring the daily lives of knowledge workers, for better or worse. Social media algorithms reward speed, outrage, and sameness. At the same time, geopolitics is becoming increasingly fraught, with age-old alliances shifting. All of this is not to say that everything is hopeless. Instead, this might be the perfect time to try something generally thought of as a little bit crazy.

That’s why I left a stable career in academic science, moved across the world, and decided to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming an author.

Before this, I was a scientist. I spent years in academia, learning to think carefully, chase hard problems, and survive inside systems that reward endurance and tolerance for institutional absurdity. My work involved neuroscience, genes, and computation. I am grateful for much of it, yet I am also very glad I left.

My current project is simple, in the way dangerous things are often simple: write every day, publish regularly, build an audience, stay solvent, and see whether a life can be reorganized around imagination in an era when so many things are vying for our attention.

The fiction I write tends to involve doomed protagonists, unstable narrators, sacred objects of questionable importance, bureaucracies with occult vibes, people who mistake luck for destiny, and sentences that are trying very hard not to behave. I like humor that makes you think, absurdity that borders on truth, and anything that suggests reality itself may be overfunded, badly managed, and governed by the rules of an exhausted subcommittee.

I’m just getting started. At this stage, your support means everything. Every single like and comment gives me a small burst of joy and renews my faith in the mission. Currently, I’m publishing The Wonderment Series regularly. My first published book, more of a collection of short stories, will be called “Camp Stories” or “Up to Camp” - something like that.