Tracesofhumanity.org by Joanna Rutkowska

5 hours ago

The author is describing the struggle between rational thinking / humanism and other values like pragmatism, beauty, formalism, intuition, freedom, love, individualism, privacy vs. egalitarianism, sharing, community.
They mention a period of 7 years when they were silent, and now are trying to resurface with this new blog.
They had previous work on Qubes OS, a paranoid-security OS, and were focused on computer systems security / virtualization security for about ৯ years.
They now find their value system more complex, wrestling with these competing philosophical ideas.
The blog is intended as a reportage of their struggles between these values, and they wish their younger self could read it.
They state that life might have been more fulfilling if they had found answers to human happiness earlier, but suspect this might be self-defeating.
They believe the struggle with uncertainty and incompleteness might be the central theme of humanism or even its essence.
They invite readers to get in touch to share perspectives or point out flaws in their reasoning, provide contact info in an 'About section.

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