Caleb's Notes

Hi there! I'm Caleb 👋

This personal website is a spot for me to share random stuff that I'm thinking about or working on. 

What can you find here?

The sidebar (👈) has some top-level pages to help me organize this mess.

• What's New is an inconsistently-updated Changelog of this website to help document what I've been devoting attention to recently.
• Learn about me under About Me.
• The biggest section of this site is Life, the Universe, and Everything, an exercise in Thinking in Public about... everything I can. You might call it a digital garden. Almost all of the pages in there are placeholders with no content (yet).
• I put more traditional "blog post"-style write-ups (like How-To guides and soapbox rant opinion pieces) under Topics.
• Things I've Learned is for Evergreen Notes—that is, ideas I'm personally convinced are valuable and applicable to many areas of life.
• Finally, Things I've Made serves as a convenient place to link to when I make stuff other places (like GitHub or Twitter).

New here?

Here's some stuff I like to think and write about to get you started exploring:

• My Faith (namely, Protestant Evangelical Reformed Baptist Christianity)
• Category Theory
• Programming and Programming Languages
  • AutoHotkey
  • Clojure
  • Haskell
• Personal Knowledge Management
  • Roam Research
• Theology
• Philosophy
• Surviving Seminary

Here's some hobbies and some media that I enjoy.

• Why I love AutoHotkey so much, and how I use it together with Roam Research and VS Code for my Personal Knowledge Management workflow
• What's so troublesome about Platonism as a Christian Metaphysic and why I prefer (and think The Bible is more consistent with) something more like Hebraic Covenantalism
• Why EVERYONE should learn basic Category Theory  and therefore why we should teach it in schools 
• Why anyone who aspires to clear thinking, reasoning, and communicating should learn Haskell (especially Christian Theologians and students of the Divinities)
• Listening carefully to Daniel Schmachtenberger on a variety of topics:
  • Being, Doing, Becoming
  • Compassion and Compersion vs Sadism and Envy
  • Better metrics for assessing the state of society
  • First-, Second-, and Third-Person Epistemics
  • The Hegelian Dialectic and Seeking Synthesis through Rigorous Empathy
• The concept of The Liberal Arts as those skills which members of a free society need to be successful (and which a free society needs its members to have to be successful itself)
• Why the term Position is useful for expressing the generic concept of one's intellectual assent and convicted commitment to supporting an idea, belief, or decision
• Why "Character" is a more useful and less error-prone concept than "Essence" when it comes to seeking and communicating our grasp of the behavior, quality, or "is-ness" of a thing
• How Symbols and Typology serve as proving grounds for our understanding of Truth and Meaning (and how Category Theory clarifies the whole project)
• Learning  Clojure, and some thoughts that has provoked about language and Learning in general