Hi, I'm Arjan.

Standing on a rock outcrop looking out over Lake Superior in autumn

By trade, I'm a software engineer. By necessity, I am an innovator and designer. By passion, I am a cinephile and art aesthete.

These distinct but meaningful aspects of my life have shaped me into who I am today. After 13 years at a Classical Educational School in Minnetonka, Minnesota, I committed to continuing my education at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA. My central coast endeavors have left me passionate about education, automation, and technological ethics.

Presently, I am committed to graduating from Cal Poly with a B.S. in Software Engineering in only 3 years. Outside of the classroom, I am often at coffee shops, searching for new third spaces, playing billiards, or watching obscure films no one has heard of.

Never trust a thought that occurs to you indoors.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
At the Crossroads of Creativity and Cognition

Why would a Software Engineer cancel their Claude Code subscription? Can creativity without modernized digital tools create the ability to fall in love with life? Thoughts on these ideas below.

Thomas Cole's The Consummation, from the series The Course of the Empire, circa 1836.
Thomas Cole's The Consummation, from the series The Course of the Empire, circa 1836.