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Hello! I’m Theo Ryzhenkov. This is my digital garden. Welcome!

1. Who Is?

I’m a 21 y.o. (and counting) engineer & scientist born in Russia. I did AI Alignment research at Palisade as a founding member, am a creator of Posthaste and an active member of Rationalist community through FABRIC, LessWrong and other ventures. I write about software development a lot. If you are hiring or founding aiming to really make the world a better place, contact me!

• I design and run TTRPGs; Mork Borg, Blades in the Dark as faves.
• I’m in a relational psychoanalysis treatment; My first therapy was at 11 y.o, in gestalt approach.
• I love dark green colors; I enjoy the experience of touching old stones and roads or looking at the Earth from planes’ windows.
• I paint my nails with wild designs;
• I’m diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder and ADHD; I take Aripiprazol and Biperiden for my medications!
• I did professional dance and theater; We performed at Gogol Center!

2. Why?

This website is my centralized public presence; in spirit of POSSE. I want to have one since I believe that my writing and thoughts can be useful to people and to advance my own goals.

3. How?

This website is built with Astro, MDX-in-git content, and a small custom ActivityPub/Bluesky service for notes. It is hosted on my machine on Hetzner. I collect statistics with Medama. It is written in TS and deployed declaratively with Nix.

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