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This page contains more personal content, reflections and ideas. Please see the main page for my professional bio.

When not doing research, I enjoy spending time with my family (wife, 5-year-old, and cairn terrier Yoshi). Some hobbies and interests I’ve had over the years include weight training (2006-2015; 2023 and onwards), board gaming (2013 and onwards), collapsology (2018 and onwards), and vegetable cultivation at our ground-level apartment (2020 and onwards). I’ve been collapse aware since the spring of 2020 and am deeply worried about the multiple interlocking crises that our societies face, and our responses to these crises, which I hope to write more about here in the future. I also intend to write down / summarize ideas on the topic of individual and community resilience.

In the picture below, some of the interests mentioned above can be seen and/or derived. The tomatoes were grown in our small garden, and it seems our dog Yoshi is trying to sniff the box containing the tomatoes. Yoshi weighs a bit over 10 kgs, and thus (small as he may be), he represents more than 4x the land-based wildlife mammal weight per human. In other words, if we took all land-based wildlife mammals out there in the world, and shared them equally among us 8 billion humans, it would mean we get 2.5 kgs (or 1/4 of our dog Yoshi) each.

The following is a sentence I came up with some while ago, which I think resonates quite well with the above: The elephant in the room is that there are too many elephants in the room, one of which is that there are no elephants in the room.