--- title: About date: 2015-03-18 00:00 modified: 2024-04-04T11:11:52+0100 status: page --- Hello. My name is Nino. I once studied physics, but now I'm a software engineer. I made this website to practice my writing skills because I thought that might be fun and/or useful. Sometimes I don't post a lot of stuff because I'm afraid of being wrong or looking stupid. I try not to let this anxiety control me because > I used to often hesitate to ask dumb questions, to publicly try skills I was likely to be bad at, or to visibly/loudly put forward my best guesses in areas where others knew more than me. > > I was also frustrated with this hesitation, because I could feel it hampering my skill growth. ([source](http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/mru/two_growth_curves/)) and > Instead of cringing you can think "wow, I made a lot of progress since". It did the trick for me, but well, YMMV. ([source](http://lesswrong.com/lw/le5/welcome_to_less_wrong_7th_thread_december_2014/brqr)) These days I'm wildly flipflopping between [learning](https://github.com/nino/nino-api) [every](https://github.com/nino/nino-api2) [programming language](https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/pull/2302), building [3D spaceships](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sWhSzsPX84), and trying to figure out how to [make music](https://open.spotify.com/artist/3EShRkyCrBMEWU1jFu4ZF0). (I also record audiobooks for fun, but I can't link to them publicly since they're copyrighted. So far I've done _Project Hail Mary_, _The Martian_, and _Paddington_ books 1--5. Ask me for a link if you're interested.) ---- If you want to talk to me about how awesome hugs are[^hugs], you can reach me at . [^hugs]: Other topics work as well.